A Half-Century Since The Beginning Of The End Of The Post WW II Economic Order
A Half Century Since The Beginning Of The End Of The Post WW II Economic Order It was also on a Sunday, with financial markets closed, that August 15, 1971,…
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Monetary Sovereignty, Sanctions and Russian Economic Policy
Monetary Sovereignty, Sanctions and Russian Economic Policy The central role of economic sanctions in the US/EU strategy against Russia has returned international political economy to the center stage if it…
Economic Policy After the Midterm Elections
Economic Policy After The Midterm Elections Will economic policy change much aa a result of the midterm elections? After all, the GOP has taken the House of Representatives, if only…
Suppostion? Economic performance is stronger when Democrats hold the White House
…Josh Bivens Economic Policy Institute Since 1949, there has been a Democratic advantage in the average performance of key macroeconomic indicators measuring economic health. Summary: The economy performs much better during Democratic presidential administrations than during…
A President Who’ll Cut Social Security — And Liberals Who Love Him Too Much
…of a supposedly liberal president repeatedly and needlessly trying to cut Social Security is enough to bring a reasonable, economically literate person to the point of existential despair. To see…
Why You Don’t Want Ron Fournier to Be a Journalist – (Mainstream-journalism gimmickry) [Post republished after editing]
…also added the final two sentences. The post is a followup to a post from earlier Friday. I’ve also created an additional label: mainstream-journalism gimmickry. I’ve left the original rather…
If Guns are Cheap, Criminals Will Have Guns
…and since then, models have proliferated, transforming the name “Smith and Wesson .38” into a generic label for a particular style of gun, even clones that aren’t made by Smith…
More on the Threat to Social Security and Medicare from the so-called "Fiscal Cliff"
…benefits in exchange for the pittance of slightly higher taxes on the upper crust. The article goes even further astray at the end with its label of a “two-part deal”…
Calling all Americans: we face an "austerity crisis" not a fiscal "cliff”
…freshwater economics, still claim that all we need to do is starve the beast more, cut taxes and regulations more and economic growth will take off and take care of…
Starve the state; support traditional families (only)
…economic self-interest, Self describes the way “social and economic conservatism buttress each other”. Id. “[T]he defense of the autonomous, idealized nuclear family ‘was intimately linked to the way [conservative activists]…