Dems are snatching defeat from the jaws of victory by spurning populist rage...
17% of the American workforce is either unemployed or underemployed. More than seven million people have lost their jobs since this recession began, in an economy that needs to add more than 100,000...
View ArticleThe spat over executive pay is a gift to the dems (if they don't cave)
Executive compensation on Wall Street is an issue that could make or break the Obama presidency. To many respectable figures in the media and in the administration (especially at the Treasury),...
View ArticleThe best interests of the White House are served by quietly undermining the...
The top priority of every first-term president is to become a two-term president. Since healthcare reform was Obama’s central domestic campaign promise in 2008, he must pass a healthcare reform bill of...
View ArticleA thought experiment on the power of spite
Imagine the following scenario:Bob the construction worker and Lloyd the banker are neighbors. Bob's savings consist of 2 gold coins. Lloyd's savings consist of 10 gold coins.One day, the god of...
View ArticleThe path to stagflation.
If the U.S. continues on its current path, it will be experiencing full-blown stagflation by the time of the 2012 election. On fiscal policy, the only debate between the two parties is over how much...
View Article8 Steps to a Neoliberal Utopia.
On the face of it, one would think that it's insane to freeze or cut federal spending and slash state and local spending in an economy as weak as ours is today. But the truth is that critics of...
View ArticleWTF is wrong with Americans?
All over the world people are standing up to corrupt kleptocracies. In Greece and Iceland, the people took to the streets to resist the looting of the public sphere by banks. The dictator of Tunisia...
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