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“We cannot attract and retain the best and brightest talent,” AIG says, unless they pay those bonuses — $165 million. Barney Frank had the best and brightest reply: on the Rachel Maddow Show Monday night, he said: “I don’t want to retain them.” JOHN NICHOLS will comment – he’s
Also: Obama’s economic stimulus provided NOTHING for New Orleans hurricane recovery or flood protection. For a reminder on what Katrina and President Bush did to
Plus: novelist PETER CAREY has won two Booker prizes: the first for Oscar and Lucinda, which was made into a movie starring Ralph Fiennes and Cate Blanchett; the second for The True History of the Kelly Gang, which sold two million copies worldwide. Now his tenth novel is out in paperback: His Illegal Self, which tells the story a seven-year-old boy whose parents are part of the Weather Underground. (Originally broadcast 3-12-08)
More stuff to read: My new piece at TheNation.com, “AIG’s ‘Best and Brightest.’”