Adrian Walker's reporting or opinion piece in the Globe today just seemed so far off-base. First, it wasn't clear that he acutally talked with any delegates and, second, he just seemed bored and slightly irritated that he had to go to … [Read more...]
Bernie Sanders speech on the war on the middle class
Fabulous Vt. Senator Bernie Sanders' speech on floor of senate http://tinyurl.com/2fwh6lm … [Read more...]
republican, conservative themes
******************************* Wrecking Crew Themes: Goal: More business in government, less government in business, via deregulation, tax cuts and privatization Big government as the chief domestic enemy, the best public servants are the … [Read more...]
Christina Romer – Not my Father’s Recession
Subtitle = "The Extraordinary Challenges and Policy Responses of the First Twenty Months of the Obama Administration" This recession was fundamentally different Why we need to do both even more stimulus funding and tax cuts. full … [Read more...]
Supreme Court and Campaign Finance
Can someone explain to me how, with the relaxation of the campaign finance rules, you can prevent some major international corporation from influencing elections? Let's say Siemens, for instance, would like a certain person elected. … [Read more...]
DeMint, Hypocrisy, and the TSA
OK, so the GOP is upset with the underwear bomber security failure and they continue to try to use it to make political hay. Yet, oddly, they also continue to block the appointment of the new head of the TSA. HuffPo states Sen. Jim … [Read more...]
Hoover Revisited by Minority Leader Boehner
Republican efforts over the decades to discredit, diminish, and demean Roosevelt's efforts to get the US out of the economy are still alive despite the fact that the depression was 3 years old before Roosevelt took office. Thye seem intent … [Read more...]
The Great Transformation
We are on the cusp of a dramatic transformation of our economy caused by energy security concerns, past and future oil shocks, and imminent and dramatic climatic disruptions caused by greenhouse gases. Take a look at the 2025 Global Trends … [Read more...]
Ed Markey, Market Meltdown and Derivatives
Today's NYT has a long article on the role of deriviates in the market meltdown, Greenspan's continuous faith in them and Ed Markey's attempts to regulate them. Kudos to Markey. Too bad for all of us he was not successful. … [Read more...]
Death of Reagan-Thatcher Economics Part II
Notes from another witness of the ugly death throes of the ideology of unregulated capitalism Slow Rise for a New Era By Harold Meyerson, WaPo Wednesday, October 1, 2008; A17 We are, just now, stuck between eras. The old order -- the … [Read more...]
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