Dan here…hang on to this definition for examples. It is also full of Robert’s somewhat unique humor. Lifted from Robert Waldmann’s Stochastic Thoughts. Phrase of the Day: Fournier Transform Fournier Transform: This phrase is a technical term which describes the process through which an urgently needed excellent moderate proposal supported by all very serious centrist […]
Addendum below. A very interesting article at Daily Kos has been posted. Title: There’s been HOW many Pipeline spills in Alberta in the last Four Months? Seems the Canadian news system does not find oil, gas and toxic water spills from the mining of carbon fuels to be news worthy. But, the native Indian sure […]
Lifted from Robert Waldmann‘s StochasticThoughts In which I compare Rand Paul, Jay Ackroyd, and David Dayan Jay Ackroyd notes DDay’s excellent policy proposals. I comment That is indeed an excellent list. I especially like point 3 (I think it is useful to ask people how much money Medicare Advantage saved the government if they object). […]
by Linda Beale Election Puzzle The elections got me down. I must admit that I am truly puzzled by the American electorate–that is, the very small slice of American voters that actually makes it to the polls and votes. We know that many of the right-wing efforts at voter repression –claimed as necessary to deal […]
by Rev. Nathan Detering (First Parish church, Sherborn, MA, delivered October , 2014) Guest post: 8.2 Miles from Mutuality “We are caught in an escapable network of mutuality, Tied in a single garment of destiny. Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice Everywhere.” How many of us have heard the words before, just by […]
Via Daily Kos: …there is a new study from the Economic Policy Institute titled “The Making of Ferguson” which suggests that conditions in towns like Ferguson are not random or accidental, but are instead the result of nearly a century of bigoted public policy and private biases against black people. Follow over the fold to […]
– by New Deal democrat (from Bonddad blog) A thought for Sunday: the importance of state-level third parties [You know the drill. It’s Sunday. Regular nerdy economic blogging will resume tomorrow. And be sure to read Bonddad’s latest summary, below] There was a devastating piece about the Democratic Party published about a month ago […]
Lifted from Robert Waldmann‘s Stochastic Thoughts: Kevin Drum and the White Working Class I agree a bit less than usual with Kevin Drum who writes on the problem of Democrats and the White Working Class (which is defined as whites without 4 year college degrees including, as John Quiggin noted, the horny handed sons and […]
Lifted from Robert Waldmann‘s Stochastic Thoughts. Dan here. NDD’s post on voter turnout for older voters being an economic question in general about interest rates and cola rates, Robert points to less “rational” economic behavior. Of course there is quixotic voting such as the lady in Kentucky who was for the KY health exchange and […]
(Dan here. NDD takes a shot at one reason for the loss of Democratic candidates in this election.) – by New Deal democrat It’s (also) the interest rates, stupid! You know the old saw, “it’s the economy, stupid!” Both Robert Reich and Atrios have boiled last week’s election results down to that maxim. Atrios said, […]