In this same interview series we had the opportunity to chat with Alex and Matt from Arctic Monkeys, and during our talk, your solo record came up.
Those guys are really great. The drummer is seriously underrated. He’s got to be one of the best. Quite a team those two, I think. Drinks With: Julian Casablancas « American Songwriter
Those guys are really great. The drummer is seriously underrated. He’s got to be one of the best. Quite a team those two, I think. Drinks With: Julian Casablancas « American Songwriter
8 years
this makes me smile
...cal tradition: as a socialist, Sanders is echoing political ancestors who railed against Big Banks, Big Oil, Big Everything. He also appears to be fighting the last war, of the 2008 financial crisis, out of a conviction that the “too big to fail” banks still pose a systemic risk to the economy. This conviction has some basis in fact: though the big Wall Street banks’ net incomes are declining, the five largest commercial banks did still hold forty-five per cent of the industry’s total asset...
What Hillary Clinton Gets (and Bernie Sanders Doesn’t) About Wall Street - The New Yorker
8 years
...peculators are a parasite on the real economy; Wall Streeters don’t pay their fair share of taxes; and their super-salaries are a shocking offense against fairness in an era of acute income equality. (I work on Wall Street, in private equity, and while I don’t think that I earn a super-salary, I also know there’s no way to justify how much I make relative to a nurse.)
What Hillary Clinton Gets (and Bernie Sanders Doesn’t) About Wall Street - The New Yorker
8 years
Clinton’s beyond-the-banks rhetoric, in the op-ed and in the debate itself, is meant to position her as tougher on the finance industry than Sanders, a move that is hard for her to make convincingly—one has the sense that Sanders would strip every last cufflink off every investment banker, if he could. If you agree with the Democrats that Wall Street should be reformed, though, Clinton’s more co...
What Hillary Clinton Gets (and Bernie Sanders Doesn’t) About Wall Street - The New Yorker
8 years
Especially given the fact that her biggest campaign donors are Citigroup, Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan Chase Co, Morgan Stanley et al.
8 years
A number of Republican presidential hopefuls, including Trump, have called on Obama to stop accepting Syrian refugees into the U.S. after last month's deadly attacks in Paris. Trump, however, is the first to suggest ending Muslim immigration as a whole following the terrorist attack in San Bernardino, California, that killed 14 people.
Trump Calls for 'Complete Shutdown' of Muslims Entering the U.S. - NBC News
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