Submitted by letsgetitdone on Wed, 10/17/2012 - 9:25pm
In an October 12th Post entitled “Foreigners and the Burden of Debt,” Paul Krugman made the following comment.
”. . . we’d all agree that deficits make us poorer if they crowd out investment spending — which they would if the economy were near full employment, but won’t if we’re deeply depressed. All we have to do is realize that net foreign investment — purchases minus sales of assets from and to foreigners — is also a form of investment. Or to put it a bit more simply, sure, budget deficits can make us poorer as a nation if they lead to bigger trade deficits.”
Read below the fold...
Submitted by ubetchaiam on Thu, 08/02/2012 - 8:33pm
Submitted by letsgetitdone on Wed, 04/11/2012 - 1:46am
In my last post, I discussed the first part of Beowulf's post entitled: “(MMT - JG) + Medicare for All = MMT,” and also some dialogues between Jamie Galbraith and both TomThumb and Beowulf related to the MMT Job Guarantee at one of FiredogLake's Book Salon's featuring Jamie's n Read below the fold...
Submitted by libbyliberal on Tue, 01/31/2012 - 12:35pm
RE-POST from 7-14-2011
The audacity of shamelessness. Empathy-challenged (war criminal) Obama is pretending he cares about military suicides.
I waited a few days to write this to see if my intensely bitter reaction to Obama's last week’s press conference would subside. It has not. In fact reading about the pride some progressives feel about Obama’s shamelessly hypocritical grandstanding sickens me even further.
One of the reasons slot machines in Vegas have so much power to keep you engaged is that just when you’re ready to surrender to the reality of your no-win misery a few coins drop down the slot and you unwisely stay engaged rather than cut your losses and leave. Read below the fold...
Submitted by libbyliberal on Thu, 11/17/2011 - 10:44am
Submitted by DCblogger on Fri, 10/07/2011 - 1:23am
Submitted by DCblogger on Sat, 09/24/2011 - 12:22am
Submitted by Randall Kohn on Mon, 08/15/2011 - 2:54pm
I just got an email entitled
Fighting back
and
Sent By:
"Harry Reid" On: Aug 08/15/11 12:14 PM
Ya gotta love it. Read below the fold...
Submitted by DCblogger on Sat, 07/16/2011 - 12:17am
Submitted by libbyliberal on Thu, 07/14/2011 - 10:49pm
Empathy-challenged (war criminal) Obama is pretending he cares about military suicides.
I waited a few days to write this to see if my intensely bitter reaction to Obama's last week’s press conference would subside. It has not. In fact reading about the pride some progressives feel about Obama’s shamelessly hypocritical grandstanding sickens me even further.
One of the reasons slot machines in Vegas have so much power to keep you engaged is that just when you’re ready to surrender to the reality of your no-win misery a few coins drop down the slot and you unwisely stay engaged rather than cut your losses and leave. Read below the fold...
Submitted by libbyliberal on Fri, 06/17/2011 - 9:58am
Boy, you just can’t make this stuff up.
Weiner exhibiting his “package” via email.
Thank you, Anthony. Exhibit A. That just about sums up what the ruling patriarchy is all about. Power and competition and the biggest “package” whether of a person, a party, a nation or nations. The killer drones, by the way, seem to slide very easily into the abundance of phallic imagery penetrating the public through the addicted-to-titillation, disinforming, amoral media these days.
The alleged molestation by DSK is another one of those awesome, you can’t make these perfect metaphors up, of the IMF’s will to rape Africa, Africa represented by a vulnerable and working class African woman. Read below the fold...
Submitted by libbyliberal on Mon, 05/16/2011 - 1:50pm
Submitted by libbyliberal on Tue, 03/08/2011 - 8:51pm
Some politicians kiss babies to posture their likability and trustworthiness.
Other politicians, like NY’s new Governor Andrew Cuomo, will rob them, infant victims of medical malpractice, of necessary, minimal, long-term medical coverage.
Cuomo wants to put a $250,000 lifetime cap on medical compensation for brain injury to a child caused by medical malpractice. This may sound like a lot of money, but in the course of a lifetime, medical bills being what they are and what they will undoubtedly climb to, it is very likely far from adequate. Read below the fold...
Submitted by libbyliberal on Tue, 03/08/2011 - 5:32am
[email from office of Howie Hawkins, NY Green Party]
Green Party Calls for State Lawmakers to Reject Cuomo's Austerity Budget -- A Green New Deal would invest in jobs, education, fair taxes
Green Party of NY State leaders today called Gov. Andrew Cuomo's budget an attack on working and middle class New Yorkers that should be rejected by state lawmakers.
Read below the fold...
Submitted by libbyliberal on Fri, 02/18/2011 - 5:55pm
71-year old peace advocate Ray McGovern, wearing a Veterans for Peace T-shirt, stood in the audience with his back toward Hillary Clinton as she gave a speech at Washington University on February 15th. McGovern’s stance, what he calls “silent witness”, was a protest of Mrs. Clinton’s support for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
It was not long before McGovern was assaulted and dragged out of the audience by two security men. “So this is America!” McGovern declared. “This is America!” Read below the fold...
Pages
