Stormy, Movie Guy, and Dan Becker in 2009 have been writing about trade imbalances and consequences since 2006. An excerpt from one of Dan’s posts: I have written at AB that my thoughts about when the flash point was for our change to a focus on making money from money was the first Reagan election. […]
Yves Smith points to a MIT study on how much bigger the conversation should be than the political arguments of offshoring and outsourcing suggest. And the complexities of applying ‘just in time’ sorts of global production systems through a complicated supply chain. From that post is this excerpt: And a new report by MIT on innovation […]
Mike Kimel from Angry Bear 2007 described another aspect to be kept in mind during the current austerity policy debates. The Republican Party and the National Debt Posted by cactus | 12/04/2007 Public Agenda is asking bloggers to contribute to a discussion on the National Debt they call Facing Up. These are my thoughts on […]
In this post last weekend, I lamented that Roberts hadn’t asked Nate Silver to weigh in on the voting statistics Roberts employed at the argument last week in the Voting Rights Act case. I also said Roberts & Friends were unlikely to ask him to weigh in on it. Which I’m sure is accurate. But […]
Leaving race aside for the moment (did someone mention that the Voting Rights Act has something to do with empowering black voters – who just might, for some strange reason, prefer Democrats?), what the court’s conservatives seem to see in Section 5 is a threat to state sovereignty — the “sovereign dignity” of the states, […]
by Tom aka Rusty Rustbelt Health Care Thoughts: The CPR Kerfluffle According to numerous media reports: On February 26th, Lorraine Bayless, an 87 year old resident of the Glendale Gardens independent living facility, collapsed in the dining hall. Someone called 911, and eventually a person identifying herself as a “nurse” was on the call (whether […]
Since I got preempted posting the inequality video at AB, I thought I’d offer this as a follow-up. H/T to Rachel Maddow.
Scott Sumner (via Matt Yglesias) has a very impressive graph of breakeven inflation rates for yen denominated vs inflation protected securities in Japan (which seems to have something to do with Fathom Consulting just to cite). It shows a marked increase from around 0% to around 0,8% from early February 2011 to late April 2011. […]
Via Sandwichman at Econospeak comes this well done video on Wealth: It’s Not for Everyone, which is going to 3 million views from facebook, reddit, and elswhere:
I dearly love comment sections on certain websites. Some are entertaining, and some are guaranteed to lead to links for further thought. Others are stocked with slogans and utterances of magical thought without caveat. However, what can be missed are those posts which do not draw much comment…it needs to be mentioned that these posts […]