Much ado is made of the Fed’s “credibility,” which is dog-whistle-speak for its ability, willingness, and decided inclination to jump all over any (expected or imagined) whiff of that horrifying…

…rose dramatically. Unfortunately, they are not offsetting, not by a long shot; but they do tell us a great deal about our priorities. I have divided the discussion into five…

Via Joan McCarter, we learn that Wellpoint, which runs a number of for-profit Blue Cross/Blue Shield insurance plans, reported on an investor’s conference call that it expects to add over…

The Real News Network interviewed 2 scientists about a new study on current extinction rates. The scientists interviewed are Dr. Terry Root & Dr. Stuart L. Pimm. The study shows…

…predict the Dow when it is influenced by a greater percentage of the wealthy. Their logic tries to appear complex, but it is simple. “…the investing public isn’t really buying…

At the 9:40 minute point of this video, Heiner Flassbeck says… “… But even people who are asking for more expansionary fiscal policies like Larry Summers or Paul Krugman, they…

…a new separatism that seems to have infected our ranks, a vanguard against those forces that, in the name of our great democracy, have managed to diminish it.” ~~~~~~~~ Burns…

…from the NY Fed last week (h/t The Conversable Economist): The important point was that the relationship has changed since the Great Recession. Even though there has been a big…

I think this post by Dylan Matthews is brilliant and a must read. He says we should focus less on equality of opportunity and more on average outcomes and equality…

In Doctor Strangelove, General Ripper explains to Captain Mandrake why Clemenceau’s dictum on war is now obsolete: He said war was too important to be left to the generals. When…