A short list of thoughts on Occupying Together and comments makes for an interesting scan: Mark Engler, Five Things That #OccupyWallStreet Has Done Right Micah Sifry, #OccupyWallStreet: There’s Something Happening Here, Mr. Jones. Mike Konczal, Understanding the Theory Behind Occupy Wall Street’s Approach Doug Henwood, The Occupy Wall Street non-agenda Glenn Greenwald, What’s behind the […]
You can go read the OWS stuff yourself; I want to highlight this: Escaping on the R train from Rector Street, we got home to discover that Steve Jobs died. And that my Twitter feed is full of people wanting to wag their finger in my face for caring too much, in the wrong way. […]
Elizabeth Warren and other Democratic candidates for US Senate from Massachusetts had their first public debate last night. The embedded video from the Boston Herald is about an hour and a half…it is not working at present so is below the fold for when it resumes working. The link is here.
What do people think so far of the OccupyWallSt./Boston/DC/Chicago etc. movement as it has developed?
Since the thread from Dale Coberly’s post on Social Security for the Young has over 120 comments, and many are not short but could be essays by themselves, I am starting a companion thread for the conversation to contine.
When someone attempts to impede democracy actions are good things: Writer and naturalist Henry David Thoreau was once locked up for refusing to pay a poll tax. He opposed the tax on moral grounds – in a democracy, he argued, a man shouldn’t have to pay to vote…. That night, so the story goes, Thoreau […]
Most of us are familiar with the widely used data that shows health care spending as a share of GDP. It tells a scary store that dominates the political debates in Washington and that everyone is concerned about. Looked at this way health care spending clearly looks like the monster that ate Tokyo. But the […]
by Beverly Mann The Plot Sickens – The Heart of the ACA Litigation Moves to the Supreme Court. Maybe. Last week’s big political news concerning the PPACA (a.k.a. “Obamacare”) litigation was the administration’s decision to forego the option of asking the full membership of the Atlanta-based Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals, the appellate for several […]
by Dale Coberly Social Security For The Young Intelligence Squared U.S. (corrected link: http://intelligencesquaredus.org/) is sponsoring an Oxford-style debate Tuesday evening in Manhattan. The program is entitled “Grandma’s Benefits Imperil Junior’s Future” The resolution: “Commitments made to seniors decades ago failed to foresee the harsh economic realities of the present. Do entitlements saddle our children […]
By Jeff McCord is a former US Senate staffer, Securities Investor Protection Corp (SIPC) executive and has been a free-lance journalist for Dow Jones publications. His academic background in economics includes post-graduate work at the London School of Economics and George Washington University. FREQUENTLY MALIGNED CLASS ACTION LAWSUITS ACTUALLY DETER FINANCIAL WRONGDOING, STUDY FINDS Though […]