More Establishment Blather From Krugman
Body: Paul Krugman can be a remarkable dumb fuck when he wants to be. You see as a classical economist, he has been trained to interpret markets in terms of supply and demand. Speculation when it...
View ArticleCan Kucinich Drive A Stake Through the Zombie Heart of the Fed? (Part...
Body: Stop talking about Kucinich and the olive pit. Forget about the ride on Air Force One. Kucinich has positioned himself to plunge a stake through the zombie heart of the arch enemy of American...
View ArticleFederal Spending Doesn't Cost Anything!
Body: Over the past year, I've written numerous posts about fiscal sustainability, fiscal responsibility, and the various fairy tales and myths underlying what almost all of our policy makers have to...
View ArticleTrouble Is When We Take the Truth Off the Table
Body: Arianna Huffington is calling attention to “the great budget battle of 2011,” between the President and the Republicans. She correctly points out that whichever of the two sides win, we, the...
View ArticleWake Up Progressives: The Bad Guys Are Trying To Steal the Trillion Dollar...
Body: Among the many posts on the Trillion Dollar Coin (TDC) and Platinum Coin Seigniorage (PCS) we're seeing this week, is a category of posts favoring using PCS in a limited way to avoid the debt...
View ArticleThe Small Ball Trillion Dollar Coin Seigniorage Exception
Body: The exception to the general pattern focusing on the Trillion Dollar Coin (TDC) as the solution to the debt ceiling problem I outlined and critiqued in my last post, is in Joe Wiesenthal 's posts...
View Article"I have waited for five years now to see one figure on Wall Street speak in a...
Body: [Lambert here: With "The Sachs Conjecture," I'm giving a shorthand label to the Sachs claim that "the moral environment as pathological." He talks about Wall Street, but it's clear he also means...
View ArticleObama’s BFF Larry Summers is Also Wall Street’s
Body: I read this past week that a poll revealed that 4 out of 5 Americans are economically insecure.I also read that Obama is seriously thinking of bringing back one of the US-economy wrecking balls,...
View ArticleLibby's Stew: Yellen, Afghan Kids, Charter Fraud
Body: “Senate confirms Janet Yellen as Fed Chair” by Andre Damon
View ArticlePaul Craig Roberts On Our Economic Doom
Body: Paul Craig Roberts, former U.S. Treasury Secretary bottom-lines the present economic doom of America’s working -- and non-working -- class in "Another Fraudulent Jobs Report." He writes:Americans...
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