by Maggie Mahar If you think fertilized eggs are people but refugee kids aren’t, you’re going to have to stop pretending your concerns are religious– Syd’s SoapBox News reports have been filled with conflicting theories explaining why tens of thousands of unaccompanied children from Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala, have been streaming into the U.S.  […]

Yves Smith writes: SEC Commissioner Calls FSOC “Vast Left Wing Conspiracy” We witnessed a new outburst of Banking Industry Persecution Complex yesterday from SEC Commissioner Michael Piwowar, who was speaking before an assembly of fellow inmates at the American Enterprise Institute. Piwowar has made it clear in previous speeches that he is opposed to provisions […]

The Washington Post   reports: While the youngest boomers are still in their forties, the generation as a whole is shifting from one of net savers to one of net spenders. And what that leads to is the fact that over the coming decades, wealth is expected to transfer between generations at only an increasing rate. […]

By Dean Baker (2011) Progressives need a fundamentally new approach to politics. They have been losing not just because conservatives have so much more money and power, but also because they have accepted the conservatives’ framing of political debates. They have accepted a framing where conservatives want market outcomes whereas liberals want the government to […]

David Zetland @aguanomics · 2h Here’s the AMA link: http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/2ayco8/iama_water_economist_from_california_ask_me/ …

Dan here….I find David interesting and flexible in his approaches to the particular contexts of ownership and uses of water.  It is often an intensely local set of circumstances.   Guest post by  David Zetland   Blogging on the political economy of water at aguanomics Author of Living with Water Scarcity (2014) and The End […]

David Kay Johnston re-frames the story of what happens to your money in this age of tax cuts as the road to prosperity: Why are so many Americans feeling squeezed economically even as the economy expands at an accelerating pace? Last month set a new record for sustained job creation: 52 straight months of added […]

by Dale Coberly REALITY 101 ANOTHER LOOK AT CBO REPORT FOR THOSE FOREVER YOUNG I wrote a post the other day trying to explain what the CBO’s number meant when they said it might be necessary to raise the payroll tax an extra 3.5% to pay for Social Security for the next seventy five years. […]