David Dayen hosts Foreclosure Fraud: How the Banks Broke the Housing Market and How We are Fighting Back this morning at Netroots Nation.  Panelists: former TARP Inspector General Neil Barofsky, community organizer Malcolm Chu, and whistleblower Lynn Szymoniak.  We’ll post the video later today, but Marcy is liveblogging now. Despite the fact that we’ve been [...]

Jay Carney, a former writer for TIME Magazine and currently in the witness protection program the spokesman for Vice President Biden, will replace Robert Gibbs as the White House Press Secretary, according to multiple sources. Carney was picked from a pool of five candidates. I find that Carney has generally gone invisible in the two [...]