memeorandum: Eichengreen: Cassandras and currency wars (FT Alphaville)

10:15 AM ET, February 10, 2015

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Zeke J Miller / TIME:

Axelrod: Obama Misled Nation When He Opposed Gay Marriage In 2008 — A striking admission of political dishonesty from the keeper of the Obama flame — Barack Obama misled Americans for his own political benefit when he claimed in the 2008 election to oppose same sex marriage for religious reasons …

Discussion: Talking Points Memo, Political Wire, Business Insider, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, Hot Air, Hit & Run and Mediaite

Richard Wolf / Associated Press:
First Take: Handwriting on the wall for gay marriage

Discussion: Hit & Run, National Review, Office of the Governor …, Washington Post, The Atlantic Online, New York Times and al.com

Chris Geidner / BuzzFeed:
Marriage Equality Is Coming To America This June

Discussion: Vox, Christian Science Monitor, al.com, Slate, Hot Air, Daily Kos, Hit & Run, Washington Monthly, Bloomberg View and Salon

Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed:

New Jeb Bush Chief Technology Officer Deleting Old Tweets About “Sluts” — Ethan Czahor's tweets began disappearing today after news broke that he had been hired by Jeb Bush. A spokesperson for Bush told BuzzFeed News: “Governor Bush believes the comments were inappropriate.

Discussion: Politico, Fox News, Mediaite, FreakOutNation, Liberaland, Orlando Sentinel, Daily Kos, Tampa Bay Times, Raw Story, OnPolitics and Talking Points Memo

James Hohmann / Politico:

Bobby Jindal vs. the world — He says elites can't stand the idea of an Ivy-League-educated pure conservative. — AP Photo — In the past few weeks, Bobby Jindal has been attacked for insisting that Europe allows Muslims to control special “no-go zones,” belittled by the Weekly Standard for offering a …

Discussion: Washington Monthly, John Hawkins' Right Wing News, The American Conservative, Mediaite, Washington Post, RedState and Daily Kos

Michael C Bender / Bloomberg Business: How Long Will Jeb Bush Hold His Fire on His Republican Rivals?

Zeke J Miller / TIME:
Jeb Bush Hires Co-Founder of Hipster.com

Discussion: Gawker, OnPolitics, New York Times, PoliticusUSA, The Hill, Politico, Washington Post and Business Insider

Travis J. Tritten / Stars & Stripes:

In his words: Brian Williams' interview with Stars and Stripes — WASHINGTON — NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams on Sunday scuttled what would have been his first public appearance to explain his situation when he canceled a planned appearance on the Late Show with David Letterman.

Discussion: New York Times, CBS DC, The Federalist, New York Magazine, Business Insider, Mediaite, Politico, Talking Points Memo, Hot Air, TVNewser, Page Six and Poynter, more at Mediagazer »

Danika Fears / Page Six:

Brian Williams' account of Israel trip in question — Another of Brian Williams' wild reporting tales is being called into question - this time it's an account of his trip to Israel in 2006. — In a 2007 interview, Williams recalled riding on an Israeli military helicopter that was flying …

Discussion: FishbowlNY, Jammie Wearing Fools, FOX News Radio, Fox News and The Huffington Post

Tara Parker-Pope / New York Times:
Was Brian Williams a Victim of False Memory?

Discussion: The Daily Caller

Rasmussen Reports:
Should NBC's Brian Williams Stay or Go?

Discussion: Bloomberg Business, Fox News, Mediaite, NY Daily News, The Huffington Post and Daily Mail, more at Mediagazer »

Claire Atkinson / Page Six:
Former NBCUniversal boss comes to the defense of Brian Williams

Discussion: New Orleans Times-Picayune and TVNewser

Kenneth P. Vogel / Politico:

David Brock resigns from Hillary Clinton PAC — David Brock on Monday abruptly resigned from the board of the super PAC Priorities USA Action, revealing rifts that threaten the big-money juggernaut being built to support Hillary Clinton's expected presidential campaign.

Discussion: Talking Points Memo, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, New York Times, The Daily Caller, Mediaite, US News, Moe Lane, Bloomberg Business, Washington Free Beacon, Fox News and Jammie Wearing Fools

Gabriel Debenedetti / Politico:
RNC launching 'Hillary's hiding' campaign

Discussion: US News, New York Magazine, Washington Post, New York Times and Talking Points Memo

Julie Pace / ABC News: Democratic Wise Man Splits Loyalties Between Obama, Clinton

Kristina Wong / The Hill:
Aides: War powers request this week

Discussion: FOX News Radio

The Hill:

Dem boycott of Netanyahu address to Congress grows — More than a dozen congressional Democrats say they plan to skip Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's speech to a joint session of Congress amid conflicting signals over whether he will pull out from the March 3 address.

Luke Baker / Reuters:
Netanyahu considering changes to Congress speech after criticism

Discussion: ThinkProgress, BuzzFeed, Reuters, Jerusalem Post, Bloomberg Business, The Times of Israel, Tablet Magazine, Associated Press, Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Talking Points Memo, Outside the Beltway, The PJ Tatler, PoliticusUSA and Haaretz

Mike Lillis / The Hill:
WHIP LIST: Dems skipping Netanyahu speech

Discussion: ABC News, Israel Matzav, The Daily Caller, The Last Refuge, TPNN, Yahoo! News, TheBlaze.com and PoliticusUSA

Justin Sink / The Hill:

Axelrod: Obama knew Prayer Breakfast remarks would provoke — President Obama's comments referencing the Crusades and Jim Crow during the National Prayer Breakfast appeared intentionally “provocative,” former adviser David Axelrod said Monday. — Obama has faced heated criticism for the comments …

Richard Kirsch / The Hill:

Under GOP plan, pay more for junk insurance, leave more uninsured — In the hope that they will give cover to the Supreme Court gutting a key provision of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), three prominent Republican members of Congress revealed a plan to replace the ACA last week.

Discussion: Daily Kos and American Spectator

Stephanie Mencimer / Mother Jones:
Meet the Unusual Plaintiffs Behind the Supreme Court Case That Could Destroy Obamacare

Discussion: The New Republic, SCOTUSblog, NPR, Daily Kos, Brad DeLong's Grasping Reality and Democracy in America

BBC:

Assad says Syria is informed on anti-IS air campaign — Syria's President Bashar al-Assad says his government is receiving messages from the US-led coalition battling the jihadist group, Islamic State. — Mr Assad told the BBC that there had been no direct co-operation since air strikes began in Syria in September.

Discussion: NPR and Al Jazeera America

FT Alphaville:

Eichengreen: Cassandras and currency wars — A guest post from Barry Eichengreen, a professor of economics and political science at the University of California, Berkeley and author, most recently, of Hall of Mirrors: The Great Depression, the Great Recession, and the Uses — and Misuses — of History.

Paul Krugman / New York Times:

Nobody Understands Debt — Many economists, including Janet Yellen, view global economic troubles since 2008 largely as a story about “deleveraging” — a simultaneous attempt by debtors almost everywhere to reduce their liabilities. Why is deleveraging a problem?

Discussion: Cafe Hayek, Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg View

Henry Graff / WVIR-TV:

Jesse Matthew Charged with Murdering Hannah Graham — ALBEMARLE COUNTY, Va (WVIR) - Two independent sources tell NBC29 that Jesse Matthew has been charged with the first-degree murder of University of Virginia student Hannah Graham. — The Albemarle County Police Department …

Discussion: WTVR-TV, Gawker, Scared Monkeys and WAVY-TV

Robert Costa / Washington Post:

Democrats suffering from Clinton fatigue say they're ready for Warren — AMES, Iowa — Thirteen Iowa Democrats wearily took their seats here this weekend and discussed among themselves the source of their angst: Hillary Rodham Clinton. — “I'm utterly tired, tired of the Clintons …

Discussion: Jammie Wearing Fools and Washington Examiner

Roger Cohen / New York Times:

Western Illusions Over Ukraine — MUNICH — The most difficult thing for a communist, it has been observed, is to predict the past. I was reminded of this as I listened to Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, in full Soviet mode at the Munich Security Conference, suggesting …

Discussion: The American Conservative