Calling Them Out
“If a man has an apartment stacked to the ceiling with newspapers we call him crazy. If a woman has a trailer house full of cats we call her nuts. But when people pathologically hoard so much cash that they … Continue reading →
Category Archives: Economics
Listen to Us!
This article appeared at the Nation of Change website and was written by Kevin Zeese, one of the organizers of the Freedom Plaza occupation in Washington, D.C. I took the liberty of changing some of the links to what I … Continue reading →
You Call This a Democracy?
I read about what I thought might be an interesting book, You Call This a Democracy?, by Paul Kivel, and bought it. It is, indeed, interesting. Here are a couple of paragraphs from the Introduction: “Do you think the United … Continue reading →
Outing the Ringers
From Jay Smooth’s Ill Doctrine, a hip hop video blog:
Continue reading →Occupy Wall Street Writ Large
As I read more about the Occupy Wall Street movement, I am asking myself questions about the Masters of the Universe that they are protesting against. How did these people/organizations come to be? That, of course, is an enormously complex … Continue reading →
Thanks, Tea Party
From Politico: A Standard & Poor’s director said for the first time Thursday that one reason the United States lost its triple-A credit rating was that several lawmakers expressed skepticism about the serious consequences of a credit default — a … Continue reading →
Fighting Corporatocracy
The water in the pot has been simmering for some time now, but it is starting to boil. I am finding more and more evidence that people are waking up and are starting to connect the dots. In an effort … Continue reading →
The Big Plan
It is apparent, looking back, that Obama had plans to gut Social Security from the very beginning of his administration. It’s just that we were so happy that W. was out of office that we weren’t paying attention. Plus, we … Continue reading →
Worse Than Hoover
The title of the article caught my eye – what is that about, I thought. So I proceeded to read it and had my eyes further opened about Obama. It’s rather long, but it is an easy read and I … Continue reading →
Michael Hudson on Obamanomics
I admire Michael Hudson’s economic analysis – he makes it easy to understand and draws together ideas that I can’t make sense of. Along with Joseph Stiglitz, Michael ranks right up there in progressive economic analysis – above Paul Krugman, … Continue reading →