Tomorrow’s election analysis tonight
A year after being pronounced dead, the Republicans are resurgent! Liberals will say that this proves that Obama must move to the left, but Obama will tack to the right. The rightward tilt will prompt a spate of anguished blog posts and Nation editorials wondering why Obama is doing it. You read it here first.

Fresh postings to LBO site
Just posted to the Left Business Observer website: Adolph Reed, The limits of antiracism and samples from #122, just out: LBO current issue contents.

LBO #122 out
The new timeliness continues! LBO #122 has just been emailed to subscribers, and is off to the printer to accommodate the dead-tree brigade. Contents: pity suffering Wall Street! • a memoir of the Florida real estate boom and bust (a state where felons can’t vote, but could sell mortgages!) • 2008: a year of less money and more poverty • more job carnage as lunatics demand exit strategy • declining employment share • why the Senate sucks (it’s no accident) If you don’t subscribe yet, what are you waiting for? Click here here and your first copy will be on its way

Radio commentary, October 9, 2009
Job market somewhat less miserable In U.S. economic news, the slow improvement of the U.S. labor market continues, emphasis on “slow,” of course, and the baseline of general awfulness on which this improvement is founded. First-time applications for unemployment insurance fell by 33,000 last week to the lowest level since last November, just as the economy was beginning its fall from a cliff. The four-week moving average of initial claims, which is a better way of looking at these volatile figures, fell by 9,000, to its lowest level since last December. The fly in this particular ja

Me on the CBC
I’m going to be on the CBC’s The Current this morning, discussing the 20th anniversary of Oliver Stone’s Wall Street. Starts at 8:30. Also on Sirius channel 137.