rdan Jamie Galbraith in the Predator State: Galbraith follows with an impertinent question: if conservatives no longer take free markets seriously, why should liberals? Why keep liberal thought in the straitjacket of pay-as-you-go, of assigning inflation control to the Federal Reserve, of attempting to “make markets work”? Why not build a new economic policy based […]
davenoon at LG&M and Kikuchiyo Jones subbing for the good Roger Ailes both clobbered the WSJ’s most egregious fluffing this year. Martin Feldstein continues to try to destroy the previously-brilliant David Warsh’s reputation by openly declaring that the major Bush administration policy initiative was a complete failure, and that a dollar spent with a multiplier […]
Via Dr. Black, this piece yields preciousness: “You have to stay on top of your game,” said Sklar, 65, a straight-talker who wears cuff links to work and has managed sales crews for a quarter-century. “You have to maximize your opportunities. You have to do what you have to do to make a deal.” [emphasis […]
I should title this: Yeah, it is just like 1929 you freak’n see, hear and speak no inequality monkeys. I have this pile of income data sorted out from Saez’s work (the GDP is BEA). My thoughts regarding our economy is that income inequality (or equality) matters. It matters so much, that it is the […]
rdan Blast from the past but the question remains: How do the wealthy actually plan: rational as in markets, or wealth expectations, see research begun but not continued here: 1990 Noise Traders. Robert will be surprised today. Update: Link corrected from pdf to html, which is not as easily read. Named authors are Brad DeLong, […]
rdan PGL at Econospeak points to this article in the NYT by Casey Mulligan. Mark Thoma at Economist’s View picks up on the item as well, that the reasons for higher unemployment figures lay squarely on the shoulders of US workers. Good discussion happens at these sites. It sure is a poke in the eye […]
by Bruce WebbBack in the day even to hint at some of the subjects of Symbolman’s brilliant flash productions was to mark you as being infected with Bush Derangement Syndrome (BDS). But now in the waning days of Bush/Cheney maybe it is time to push back against the revisionism. Warning if you ever supported Bush […]
rdan The Institute for Southern Studies reminds us that coal is not simply about smokestacks:
rdan James Surowiecki at the New Yorker has a few tidbits for a slow news day…or if the news is not slow, the reporting is. Notice AB at the top of the blog roll for fun.
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