YouTube has the TYT – Florida Open Debate.

The first ever bi-partisan Open Debate for U.S. Senate in Florida between Alan Grayson and Rep. David Jolly.

This is another way to hold a debate. This is not a Presidential debate, but it could be a model for one. I am not sure what I think about it. What do you think?

The fact that Alan Grayson is running for the Senate in the Democratic primary and David Jolly is running for the Senate in the Republican primary adds an unusual twist to the debate that is more than just a format change. They aren’t actually challengers of each other in the next contest facing either one of them. They will only be direct opponents if they both win their primaries against other people who are not in the debate.

Naked Capitalism has the article A Simple “Trade” Solution to Boost Workers Across the Planet.

But the reason Third World workers get such a large share of jobs is because their wages are low. Third World countries export so much of what they produce because their workers cannot afford to buy these goods themselves. Handicapping them will only drive their wages lower, making them even more attractive to foreign corporations.

Is which group of workers to hurt, the only choice? Is there no trade policy that can help all workers at the same time? There is.

Remember that this is just one part of the solution. Don’t get hung up on thinking this is THE silver bullet that will fix everything instantly. However, when you hear representatives of the oligarchs tell you that we must protect “our” “intellectual property” from the foreigners learn to cringe at what they are trying to foist upon us.

There are a raft of ideas on how to rethink trade agreements so that they are good for everybody, not just the wealthy and the multi-national corporations.  Free trade done right is a good thing for all of us.  The ideas in this article are just examples of some of the things that could be done.

New Economic Perspectives has the article Obama’s Great Lie: What’s Good for Wall Street Felons is Good for America.

 A president who has a good case to make on the merits of his economic policies can make that case to the public with all the advantages of his office.  Obama would have gained immense “political capital” if he had led a vigorous claim to hold the Wall Street frauds personally accountable for their crimes and he would have discredited the source of much of his future opposition.  A president who allows elite CEOs to grow wealthy through fraud and even wealthier through a public bailout will – and should – squander his political capital.

Obama admitted to Sorkin, that he chose the strategy of allying himself with Wall Street and disparaging its critics.

There is no nice way to put this, Obama is either a con artist or a fool.  If he found the country had been taken in and put into dire straights by the felons on Wall Street, what kind of answer did he expect when he went to those crooks and asked them how to fix the mess they had made.  You don’t go to the con artists to ask them what to do when you discover they are con artists who have treated you very badly.

In Hillary Clinton’s case, she is the con artist, so there is no wonder she likes the “solution” that Obama chose.  This country just cannot afford to put another Obama type into office as President.  I am surprised that when Clinton touts her economic plan over Bernie Sanders’ plan that he  doesn’t point out to us all that her economic advisers are all crooks themselves.  What kind of advice do we expect the crooks to give us?