Actively helping people is fun. Coping with power structures directly isn’t.

Programming note: I’ll be hosting a special FDL Salon with William Black, professor at the University of Missouri-Kansas City and the author of The Best Way to Rob a Bank is to Own One. Black specializes in white-collar criminology, and in his time as a federal regulator, he helped put over 1,000 financial executives in jail for the savings & loan crisis.

Krugman and the Firebaggers: Will they be asked to play the White House?

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