The United States and China in the 21st Century
I will be going today: The United States and China in the 21st Century 2013 Madeleine Korbel Albright Institute for Global Affairs, Wellesley College, MA Former Secretary of State Madeleine…
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A Modest Proposal for Jacob Lew: Acknowledge Three Simple Facts about U.S. Fiscal Reality
by Robert Pollin who is Co-director, Political Economy Research Institute and Professor of Economics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst (reposted with permission from the author from his website Back to full…
Linda Beale op-ed on the dysfunctional politics of the US economy
…standard of living through measures that encourage job creation (by creating demand) and provide security against job loss and the vulnerabilities of old age and sickness. The Peterson Institute is…
The most money goes to which law enforcement agency?
…report from the Migration Policy Institute. The spending on Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection dwarfs the combined $14.4 billion spent on the FBI; Bureau of Alcohol,…
Let’s cut the crap about Japan’s lost decade
Marshall Auerback, a Director of Institutional Partnerships at the Institute for New Economic Thinking (www.ineteconomics.org) Let’s cut the crap about Japan’s Lost Decade. As Hill notes, we tend to use…
An Editorial on Robert Bork and his Legacy
…highly refined ideas of men like Robert Bork who value abstract concepts such as efficiency over the effects the programs they institute have on the lives of real human beings….
There are no "per se" tax or spending caps: lame duck negotiations no place for Medicare/Medicaid cuts
…effort by some–like the Peterson Institute, the Simpson-Bowles comedy tour, and right-wing propaganda tanks–to cast Medicare as impossible to sustain because of the current trend in health care costs. The…
What the Fiscal Cliff Means for the Middle Class
…to the middle class as well as redirecting spending from our bloated military to domestic programs. * Source: SIPRI (Stockholm International Peace Research Institute) Military Expenditure Database 2011, http://milexdata.sipri.org http://middleclasspoliticaleconomist.blogspot.com/2012/11/what-fiscal-cliff-means-for-middle-class.html…
Universities and ‘think tanks”
…From Paul: http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/inq-phillydeals/Polsky-to-head-Penns-Leonard-Davis-health-econ-group.html $100M annually for 200 fellows for Wharton econ research into health care policy economics at the Leonard Davis Institute. “Established in 1967, LDI is one of the…
More corporate First Amendment Rights?
…with foreign governments, making it harder to track whether their deals are padding the coffers of dictators, warlords, or crony capitalists. The United States Chamber of Commerce, American Petroleum Institute,…