…of Bowie’s oeuvre had provided a level of patronage that’s inconceivable for a musician of Bowie’s bent today…he spent the Nineties as a free agent, jumping from label to label,…

…high cost of American health care. I begin by explaining the origin and meaning of the “single payer” label. I will then describe the two defects in S 1129 in…

…protects the public from food-borne illnesses. It issues nutritional advice and drug labeling guidelines. It polices false medical claims on packaging and in advertisements. It safeguards about one in every…

…and the blue line that open up after around 1995 is what John Kenneth Galbraith called “the bezzle” — summarized by John Kay as “that increment to wealth that occurs…

…from GDP: The empty spaces between the red line and the blue line that open up after around 1995 is what John Kenneth Galbraith called “the bezzle” — summarized by…

…by John Kenneth Galbraith.  Galbraith, Mills, and White all cited Thorstein Veblen in their books. Packard cited the influence of Stuart Chase’s The Tragedy of Waste on his thinking. Chase’s book cited…

…up.” And of course were blamed for their foolishness later by the very people who sold them the mortgages. Update: Also see Jamie Galbraith explains why the WaPo’s so called…

…forced to consume less over their lifetimes, because they don’t get to eat their kids’ lunch. (Nick acknowledges the point that Jamie Galbraith and others have been making for years:…

…of GDP needing to be devoted to Social Security, or perhaps assisting us to achieve Prof. Jamie Galbraith’s appeal to enhance Social Security benefits rather than cut them. Which suggests…

Jamie Galbraith writes in The Nation: In Defense of Deficits The Simpson-Bowles Commission, just established by the president, will no doubt deliver an attack on Social Security and Medicare dressed…