by August Cole | Feb 26, 2014 | Monitor
Money is a funny subject inside the Beltway. Civil servants get by on proscribed grade-guided salaries that often mean commuting dozens of miles to work while those on Capitol Hill learn to walk with a practiced lean against the steady gale of dollars bending...
by August Cole | Feb 26, 2014 | Monitor
Money is a funny subject inside the Beltway. Civil servants get by on proscribed grade-guided salaries that often mean commuting dozens of miles to work while those on Capitol Hill learn to walk with a practiced lean against the steady gale of dollars bending...
by August Cole | Oct 16, 2013 | Monitor
President Barack Obama had every reason to stay in Washington when he cancelled a crucial trade trip to Asia earlier this month. It was what everybody inside the Beltway expected him to do in the face of a nasty political crisis at home. Yet had he gone to the APEC...
by August Cole | Oct 1, 2013 | Monitor
As Congress let another opportunity to prove America’s doubters wrong slip through its fingers, lawmakers at least saw fit to pass legislation to make sure that our armed forces will still be paid. Amid a government shutdown that puts hundreds of thousands of federal...
by August Cole | Jun 17, 2013 | Monitor
The elevator pitch is one of the essential tools of the American entrepreneur. Make your case in about 30 seconds and hope that you can hook your harried but important audience of one. This approach is something President Obama should keep in mind this week as he...
