You can smell the fear and the alarms going off–not by reading The Nation (snore…kick me when it has something new to say) or The New York Times, whose "economic" reporters, with one or two exceptions, are astonishingly dumb. For some real insights, look to the Financial Times and The Economist. And the message […]
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Capitalist Voices Say: Print Money–Or Be Afraid…VERY AFRAID
Posted on 04 October 2011.
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The U.S.-Europe Comparison
Posted on 20 May 2009.
One of the things I find most tiring–and there are, granted, many candidates for that list–is the refrain that "well, things may be bad in the U.S. but look how much worse it is in Europe?" I get that nonsense all the time, particularly when I have to debate the free-marketeers and the defenders […]
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Get Sick In The U.S.–Tough Luck
Posted on 18 May 2009.
This shouldn’t be the case but a new report just out this morning from the Center for Economic and Policy Research says this: This report finds that the U.S. is the only country among 22 countries ranked highly in terms of economic and human development that does not guarantee that workers receive paid sick […]
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