Train Drain
…short, this is a story of what happens when you deregulate an essential infrastructure, allow its managers to extract monopoly prices from captive customers, and then let assorted wolves of…
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Application for Regenerative Agriculture Certification
…educational establishment. We are in Central Texas among acres of rolling hills, and old growth oak trees. Upon landing and establishing the legal framework, we began setting up the infrastructure…
More on the Threat to Social Security and Medicare from the so-called "Fiscal Cliff"
…infrastructure projects and education that are vitally needed to sustain our economy. See, e.g., The GOP’s extortion demands: cut Social Security or we’ll shoot; If the Dems got backbone; Is…
Paul Volcker Feb.20
…incentives were not well-designed, so let’s have some stable, strong banking institutions responsible for the backbone of the infrastructure, the payment system, clearing arrangements, [those kinds] of things. Let’s prohibit…
The mindless canard stating as unexplained fact that it would be worse to expand the federal government by a third in order to accommodate single-payer healthcare insurance than it is to have private, for-profit health insurance companies playing this role instead
…health plan, make public universities free, expand Social Security, spend big on infrastructure, create universal child-care and pre-K programs, provide federal jobs for young people and bail out struggling pension…
Interesting Stuff from My In-Box
…the country’s early infrastructure and produced lucrative commodities such as cotton and tobacco. Economics and Business Congress Passes Bill to Allow Americans to Save More for Retirement, businessinsider.com, Ayelet Sheffey…
The hypocrisy of most deficit discussions
…the GOP attempt to label the Dems as the tax-and-spend party, the GOP turned out to be the tax-cut-and spend-anyway party. Government grew under Bush, even while revenues shrank. The…
Claiming a Golden Age
…directly check market power and hold industry accountable. On jobs, the president boasted that nearly “100 percent” of new jobs have been created in the private sector. And the label on the…
Why I will not be Voting for Obama in 2012
…These services include national defense, monitoring and controlling epidemics, and building infrastructure. The government also provides some leadership that can make it possible for the private sector to adopt new…
Politically Feasible Stimulus
…infrastructure, particularly transportation projects, is also under discussion. But it would be easier for a package composed purely of tax cuts to “avoid the stain of a ‘bailout’ or ‘stimulus’…