bloomsday 2009

Bloomsday, 2009—The leaders of Brazil, Russia, India and China are gathering in Russia to plot how they can exert more control over the global financial system... While they are far from a monolithic group, they are generally united in their frustration with the dollar’s status as the world’s reserve currency, which enables Washington to run budget deficits without fears of facing the kind of budgetary day of reckoning that other countries risk. NYT A1, A5
--Ohio State University researchers concluded this year that strong conservatives were more likely than liberals to perceive that Colbert shows their political beliefs. –SBT,A5
--The State Department overpaid the security firm once known as Blackwater by tens of millions of dollars for its work in Iraq, an audit found. WSJ A1