…use more services.” This makes sense. Even our most prestigious medical centers are not able to shake down the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS). CMS has the market clout…

Thank you contributors and readers, it’s true. We are listed at 34th this time, even missing Robert Waldmann and Kenneth Thomas mentions in Paul Krugman’s New York Times columns this…

Stiglitz on globalization: the MNE’s bought the law by Linda Beale Trans Pacific Partnership bad for the middle class, but how bad? by Kenneth Thomas Latest World Trade Organization lunacy…

…other postings from Kenneth Thomas and Dan Becker: Via Truthout comes this item So far, the TPP has been drafted with an unprecedented degree of secrecy. While information has been…

LOL…. ah well, I hadn’t read the comment section of Kenneth Thomas’s and Maggie Mahar’s posts before I put up the Popular Science post. Lifted from comments. Hans September 25,…

…Third, they should look at the many spending obligations of this country that are the Law of the Land and apply their own purported views of fiscal responsibility to their…

…primarily about tariffs and quotas. It’s about changing domestic laws. The constitutional authority to make law is at the heart of our role as a Congress and of our sovereignty…

I just couldn’t skip this one…disinhibition and odd “metaphor” combined: Lynn Parramour writes:   Thomas Ferguson and Robert Johnson of the Institute for New Economic Thinking, two economists who have…

Thomas Piketty’s important new book, Capital in the Twenty-First Century, predicts a bleak future of increasing concentrations of financial assets in few hands, stagnant wages and labor share of income,…

Usually, I would leave this type of post to the Steves, Jazz, Ken, Roberts, Edwards, Mikes, Thomas, etc. of Angry Bear Blog and stick to my manufacturing expertise to which…