Dan here… Gail is an actuary interested in finite world issues – oil depletion, natural gas depletion, water shortages, and climate change. Oil limits look very different from what most…

Dan here…Thomas Palley is Senior Economic Policy Advisor, AFL-CIO Washington DC. Here he addresses the issues of trade imbalances in a paper worth considering. by Thomas Palley The theory of…

…budget during 2009-2012 was “outpacing her predecessor,” but he bases that on O’Keefe’s piece and doesn’t provide any numbers. The previous chair of the PRC was Dan Blair. According to…

Dan here…In the middle and late eighties grants went out to train police on methods of intervention into domestic violence. In my experience on the North Shore Boston, police chiefs…

Dan here…Several liberal friends reacted viscerally to the beheadings by ISIS, an appropriate response of anger and horror. It is the simplicity of viewpoint and the conclusions drawn that bother…

(Dan here update…other posts by Robert Waldmann on the issues can be found here, here, here, and here.) G and GDP during the current recovery update Stephen Williamson asks “Where’s…

Dan here…Paul Krugman New York Times Dec. 24 notes Robert’s thinking on current story lines by some economists in macromedia. Other posts by Robert on the subject can be found…

lifted from Robert Waldmann’s Stochastic Thoughts Dan here…lest this issue disappear, I am taking my cue from an earlier set of posts from Waldmann and reposting here. Senate Torture Report…

Dan here…while this kind of post reads esoteric to non-lawyers, it is another example of courts being used to change basic functions of government. In this case on tax court…

Dan here…another re-post today, this one from NDD at Bondadd blog. by New Deal democrat A thought for Sunday: one step from despair [Who said: “I believe that our Great…