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Five Million Jobs?

…in the American economy in the past century.” That is, it had been a persistent and significant trend up until around 1940. After a brief spike during World War II,…

Japan rescinds war on deflation

by Rebecca Wilder At least that is the way I read today’s monetary policy release. According to the statement released today: “The Bank of Japan will encourage the uncollateralized overnight…

Project for a New American Century

…risk. Sincerely, . Still imagine that we went to war with Iraq based on 9/11? That the decision to go to war was really made by the Decider sometime in…

Forgotten troops…National Guard

…Mike Fisher told Truthout. “One Guard member improperly called into federal service to fight a war – that’s a real problem. Choosing to go to war is one of the…

‘Winter Soldiers’ Hearings

…of blood and guts, not war involved. If war is to be fought, I would expect all of us to acknowledge blood and guts. Instead it is marginalized as too…

Even earlier Cheney

…him could not see this assuming a reasonable person would not want a war talking president when there was no war potential in sight. So please (I’m being polite here)…

Stiglitz and Bilmes on Costs of Iraq War

For those interested, here is the Bilmes and Stiglitz paper I referenced in my previous post: The Economic Costs of the Iraq War: An Appraisal Three Years After the Beginning…