This (h/t @merici) is an awesome early sign for what will hopefully be an enlightening Senate campaign. Full text: My favorite part of looking at this: we got $1 trillion on tax cuts for the rich under George Bush, we got into this whole $2 trillion on two wars that we put on a credit [...]
Archive for September, 2011
Elizabeth Warren on Debt, Public Goods and Class Warfare
Posted in Uncategorized on September 21, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Stimulus: yes, but it’s not enough!
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Development, Labor, Public Policy on September 18, 2011 | 2 Comments »
The American Jobs Act would provide much needed stimulus to our ailing economy. However it is more like putting a bandage over the deep flesh wounds inflicted by globalization over the past two decades. The U.S. economy needs to be fundamentally restructured in order to address the prolonged recession in a sustainable way, a restructuring [...]
Friday Food for Thought
Posted in Uncategorized on September 9, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Paul Krugman, on the crisis in the economics profession: There are also many calls for new economic thinking; there’s even an institute dedicated to that project. Again, fine — but the biggest problem we had as a profession wasn’t failure to keep up with a changing world, it was failure to remember what our fathers [...]
