by Steven Roth “In the Beginning…Was the Unit of Account” – Twelve Myths About Money November 19th, 2017 Jan Kregel presented a great dinner speech at the recent Modern Monetary…

…is rather pleased that this turn of events reinforces his view about the connection between shorter hours, full employment and the myth of the general strike. What I also hadn’t…

…slow decline of unionism in the United States should concern you even if you’re not in one. Busting the Myth of Immigrant Crime “My national analysis last year detailed the…

…give anyone—even Climate Change Deniers (CCDs)—cause for concern. Even if Anthropogenic Global Warming were a myth, even if the temperature rise was being caused by the Sun, would it really…

…days (not the “openness” of now). What really went on in the earlier days is myth, but then in the 1970s Fed Chairs came to be required to testify on…

…endless market fundamentalist myth (Reaganomics) about how tax cuts are what make the economy grow and will actually pay for themselves — in spite of near 4 decades of evidence…

…police violence and that the perception they are is a fabrication perpetrated by Hollywood, the media, academics and politicians. To show that systemic police racism is a myth, Kirsanow presented…

…myth that it’s possible to adjust “performance” scores accurately to reflect factors outside provider control. Above all, it means accepting the obligation to ensure that measurements are accurate before they…

…for itself. To do so limits the potential benefits it can provide. We should not succumb to the scarcity myth that the Postal Service has a broken business model and…

…cultivated this two-tiered philosophy for decades before Trump came along.  Recall the fictitious stories Reagan told to goose his political career?  Conservative insiders knew they were made up, but that…