I am perplexed by the storm of criticism leveled at Standard & Poor’s. Don’t get me wrong–that S&P, or any of the ratings agencies, is even taken seriously is a monumental farce, given their role in the financial crisis. But, we’re missing the point: It is a mistake to solely blame the […]
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S&P Is Just A Tiny Cog in The Corrupt System
Posted on 08 August 2011.
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Three Grand Myths
Posted on 26 July 2011.
Last week, I posted a piece, suggesting that the current crisis was really about us and the lack of a movement, not about Obama. A number of people reacted, in emails to me, particularly about the Three Grand Myths–and, over the weekend, I heard yet more nonsense on the Three Grand Myths theme. So, I […]
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When Reality Sets In: Rolling Back Reagan
Posted on 25 July 2008.
Those of us who have lived in the reality-based universe have known, for a long time, that the ideologues who permeated our government in the 1980s so they could cripple government were actually killing people and creating havoc in our economic lives. So, now that we have lived with the cost of de-regulation and […]
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