Posted on 17 May 2011. Tags: California, Debt, Debt Limit, Deficits, Economic Growth, Financial Crisis, Hysteria, Jerry Brown, Nonsense
I have been arguing for some time now that the deficit and debt "crisis" are completely made up and phony. There is no crisis. But, at the very least, if you want to get rid of deficits, there is a simple path: spend MORE on jobs and raise incomes by promoting broad unionization. California […]
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Posted on 12 May 2011. Tags: Catholics, Debt Limit, Economic Growth, Financial Crisis, investment, John Boehner, Justice, Medicaid, medicare, Taxes, The Poor, Wall Street
Earlier today, I wrote about John Boehner’s very loose connection to the actual facts of our economic crisis. Well, in the meantime, Boehner is in trouble with the facts and a whole bunch of Catholic professors. To wit: More than 75 professors at Catholic University and other prominent Catholic colleges have written a […]
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Posted on 11 May 2011. Tags: Debt, Debt Limit, Deficits, Economic Growth, Fannie Mae, Financial Crisis, Freddie Mac, Hysteria, investment, John Boehner, Nonsense, Taxes, Wall Street
Rhetoric is a good thing–except when you have the facts wrong. And, boy, the relentless, daily idiocy spewed out of the mouths of our elected officials about the economic crisis is astonishing. Consider, this morning, Speaker of the House John Boehner. Two days ago, Boehner gave a speech to the Economic Club of New […]
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