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Too much wealth?

by Linda Beale Too much wealth? more dialogue on the issue Several days ago, Jim Maule ran a post on the disproportionate number of wealthy Congress members–44% are millionaires, compared to about 1% of the population at large. A Tax Policy Determination Clue (Jan. 6, 2010). I picked that post up in the context of […]

Charlie Stross Explains It All to You

The rest is details: The reason I choose to pay through the nose for my computers is very simple: unlike just about every other manufacturer in the business, Apple appreciate the importance of good industrial design. but they’re nice details. (posted from my daughters’s “new” G4, which needs a new keyboard, but has a right […]

AARP sent me this message

Did you know that next week the Senate will vote on an amendment that could mean the future of Social Security and Medicare would be decided for us without an open and public debate? I just told my senators to oppose the Conrad-Gregg amendment, which if passed would give a special commission the power to […]

BW v BK on Social Security

Lewis Carroll subtitled the ‘Hunting of the Snark’ ‘an Agony in Eight Fits’. Those of you who want equivalent nonsense feel free to follow the link. Krasting at Zero Hedge: Taking it Personal otherwise:They hunted till darkness came on, but they found Not a button, or feather, or mark, By which they could tell that […]

More on freshwater economics

by Linda Beale I just discovered (via Mark Thoma’s Economist’s View) an economics blog by Maxine Udall (self-styled “girl economist”–which just goes to show how much our image of economists is one of hirsuted males forging through the marketplace…oops, I meander) that may be worth a read. I’ll add it to my “progressive sites of […]