Yesterday, Bill Clinton foolishly called on the country to use the bank robber Willie Sutton’s maxim to address the debt "crisis" (which, in my opinion, is a phony crisis) by going where the money is. Foolish because Clinton pointed the finger at entitlements. But, the real place where the money is lies with […]
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Two Trillion In Corporate Welfare: Start Here
Posted on 25 May 2011.
Tomorrow, Peter Peterson is going to hold another one of his dumb national "fiscal summits" to further fan the flames of the phony debt and deficit "crisis"–a non-existent crisis that covers up the bigger problem of the widening divide between rich and poor. Since people want to talk about saving money, let’s start by […]
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Stiglitz: The Economy Is Not Healthy
Posted on 20 April 2011.
A few days ago, I took part in a meeting organized by the AFL-CIO to launch a new publication called "Exiting From The Crisis"–a roadmap for a new global economy. The main speaker at the small meeting was Joseph Stiglitz. He outlined some great points and realities about the economic crisis with the bottom […]
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Guns Versus Butter–Our Real Economic Challenge
Posted on 13 August 2007.
Guns versus butter. It’s the classic debate that really tells us a lot about our priorities that we set for the kind of society we can expect to live in–how much money a country spends on the military versus how much money is expended on non-military, domestic needs. To perhaps explain the obvious, buying […]
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