Posts by Llewellyn King:
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Why Is the Department of Energy Celebrating?
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This week, the Department of Energy (DOE) is celebrating its 30th anniversary. I hope they hold it down. There is not too much to cheer about. When creation of a department was first bruited, the United States was importing 30 percent of its oil needs. Now it imports 60 percent. Keep the champagne on ice. [...]
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The Time I Met George Soros
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The philanthropist billionaire George Soros is a fiend to Republicans and an awkward ally to Democrats. The immediate cause of Soros’s unpopularity is his funding of the left-wing organization MoveOn.org. It was not always thus. When the Berlin Wall fell, Soros was a hero across the board. He had funded and worked with groups opposed [...]
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Gordon Brown’s Election Dilemma
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Gordon Brown, Britain’s new prime minister, is facing a political dilemma: Should he call an election this year or early next year, or should he serve out the full time left–two and a half years–to this parliament? It is a tricky question. It is not whether he would win this election: The polls show his [...]
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Energy Mythology of the Democrats
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There is a general assumption in Washington (where assumptions are often wrong), that the Democrats will sweep the board next year. If so they will come to power with ideas about immigration, the Iraq war, health insurance, and energy. They will have ideas about all of these that show some flexibility, except energy. Here, the [...]
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The New Boom In Political Reporting
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They slice, they dice, they dissect, they puree, they aggregate and they disaggregate. They examine, they analyze, they probe and they speculate. They create myths and they destroy legends. They are the new breed of political reporters in Washington and their ranks are swelling. At one time, the coverage of national political news was the [...]
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