The Moral Imperative of a Debt Ceiling
Peter Dorman at Econospeak writes a letter to Bank of America: The Moral Imperative of a Debt Ceiling From this morning’s New York Times: Representative Jerrold Nadler, Democrat of New York, signed on...
View ArticleJoe Scarborough on the Deficit
Pro Growth Liberal at Econospeak also takes Joe Scarborough to task on Krugman and Keynes: Joe Scarborough on the Deficit After his interview with Paul Krugman this morning Joe Scarborough wrote: Mr....
View ArticleGDP Gap Stuck at 6%
Pro Growth Liberal points us to this interpretation of new economic data: GDP Gap Stuck at 6% Dean Baker gets it right with respect to the latest news on GDP: A sharp drop in government spending,...
View ArticleRisk = Freedom?
Peter Dorman at Econospeak speaks to the current selling of big idea models of the world (re-posted with permission from the author): There’s a review on the Dissent website by Steve Randy Waldman of...
View ArticleOnly 6% Of Public Knows Deficit Is Declining
Prof Barkley Rosser at Econospeak also asks questions on the freaking out over the fiscal deficit numbers: Only 6% Of Public Knows Deficit Is Declining Yes, here we go again, massive public ignorance...
View ArticleWealth: It’s Not for Everyone
Via Sandwichman at Econospeak comes this well done video on Wealth: It’s Not for Everyone, which is going to 3 million views from facebook, reddit, and elswhere:
View ArticleInterpreting the news of getting high on net wealth news
US Household wealth regains pre-recession peak! crows this story. Steve Roth‘s chart to 2010 from Asynptosis demonstrates the drop in net worth for most of us. pgl at Econospeak adds perspective: So...
View ArticleReading the story, asking normal business questions
Peter Dorman at Econospeak writes a gem of a post asking readers to ask simple questions when offered a morality tale by journalists, or an implied cause and effect tale, and how it takes no special...
View Article"Of Property" and the Mercantilist Fallacy
Sandwichman at Econospeak offers a look at a piece of history: “Of Property” and the Mercantilist Fallacy “Though the earth, and all inferior creatures, be common to all men, yet every man has a...
View ArticlePiestein
by Sandwichman (re-posted with author’s permission): In his Essay Concerning Human Understanding, John Locke affirmed, “I do not question but that human knowledge, under the present circumstances of...
View ArticleUS Policy On Iran After The Midterm Elections
A curious coincidence is that the US midterm elections happened one day after the US reimposed its second round of illegal economic sanctions on Iran, with the focus on oil, shipping, and banking,...
View ArticleIs Trump Going To Attempt A Coup?
Barkley Rosser, Econospeak Blog, “Is Trump Going To Attempt A Coup?” I realize that Joe Biden just held a press conference where he basically dismissed the refusal of Trump and a lot of other...
View ArticleThe Failure of the Public Health Establishment
Prof. Peter Dorman of Evergreen College writes at EconoSpeak and portrays Matt Yglesias’s retrospective on how the healthcare establishment failed the public when passing information on facemasks,...
View ArticlePeter Dorman of Econospeak Writes, So I Don’t Have To
I’m just going to “Go Thoma” on him, since I can’t find anything to cut: Barack Obama tells us we should not investigate American intelligence agents or their overlings who are responsible for...
View ArticleTechnology and unemployment
rdan Sandwichman, the go to guy on labor issues and author of the series Chapman, Labor, and Unemployment at Econospeak suggests an alternative to the myth of supremacy of capital, which is after all...
View ArticleWhich Spending Is Easier To Cut And By What Level Of Government?
by Professor Barkley Rosser Reposted from Econospeak with permission from the author Which Spending Is Easier To Cut And By What Level Of Government? Back from his break, our former co-blogger, Dean...
View ArticleReport From Rio…Barkley Rosser
by Barkley Rosserre-posted from Econospeak with the authors permission Will A Thousand CEOs Save The Planet? Report From Rio Just back from presenting paper at International Society for Ecological...
View ArticleThe assumption that markets are ‘natural’
by Brenda Rosserre-posted from Econospeak with permission from the author The assumption that markets are ‘natural’ I’ve just begun to browse the pages of David Graeber’s 2011 book entitled ‘Debt –...
View ArticlePGL on The Romney Economic Boom
PGL at Econospeak begins an analysis of the economists and economics of election promises of Romney’s economic ‘plan?’: Jon Ward reports that Glenn Hubbard, Greg Mankiw, and John Taylor joined with...
View ArticleThe Matrix: The Intersection of War, Economic Theory, and the Economy
Passing along a note from Michael Perelman at Econospeak: The Matrix: The Intersection of War, Economic Theory, and the Economy Vincent Portillo and I are working on a new book, The Matrix: The...
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