The blatant, and entirely predictable, ethics violations keep piling up. First it was Trump, and then, quite baldly, Kellyann Conway. Bloomberg. An ethics probe might lead to release of some tax returns. I don't know what mix ignorance and chutzpah leads to this level of ethical chicanery, but it is nearly unprecedented. At least during Teapot Dome they tried to keep it under wraps.

A well reasoned argument is like a diamond: impervious to corruption and crystal clear - and infinitely rarer.

Here, as elsewhere, people are outraged at what feels like a rigged game -- an economy that won't respond, a democracy that won't listen, and a financial sector that holds all the cards. - Robert Reich