- “What is missing from the discussions is why the US might want to battle Saddam. Aside from self-delusion there are”
Posted on Come Clean July 3, 2009 12:32 PM - “The problem is determining the "price". Right now when you buy something it is based upon reaching an agreement between”
Posted on Who profits from art? June 13, 2009 6:33 PM - “There was a 30 year period between the end of WWI and the start of the hot phase of WWII”
Posted on Supporting Wars of Necessity, Defending Wars of Choice June 11, 2009 10:59 AM - “I had difficulty with this essay. I tried to explain that I wasn't just talking about a new version of”
Posted on The slow work movement June 8, 2009 10:30 AM - “The root problem is treating corporations as people. This has allowed them to claim "freedom of speech" rights as a”
Posted on Time To Bring In Justice April 17, 2009 10:58 AM - “Every president becomes a captive of the permanent government establishment. First, they owe their souls to those who funded their”
Posted on The Great Disconnect April 8, 2009 11:39 AM - “You have to decide what the purpose of tax policy is. If it is to control behavior (like tobacco taxes)”
Posted on Dirty No-Longer Secret April 4, 2009 8:59 PM - “The issue of compensation is tied to the overall larger issue of corporate governance. This is a joke. Stockholders are”
Posted on How Much Do We Have to Pay Fannie and Freddie Execs to Lose Us Billions? April 4, 2009 7:56 PM - “For those who want some statistics, I've put together a few charts that you can examine. Does Unionization Matter? I”
Posted on Unions and Unemployment: The Battle Over the Employee Free Choice Act Gets Ugly March 15, 2009 11:14 AM - “I think there is another important difference between "conservatives" and "liberals" besides the attitudes that Jared Bernstein called YOYO vs”
Posted on The Obama Code February 24, 2009 12:48 PM - “Yes it was a flawed program expansion, but it was still an expansion. Many people are now getting drug coverage”
Posted on Why Are We So Intimidated By The Right When They Have Always Been Wrong and We've Always Been Right? February 15, 2009 9:33 AM - “There are two elephants in the room. 1. The high cost of running for office. Both parties have to court”
Posted on Why Are We So Intimidated By The Right When They Have Always Been Wrong and We've Always Been Right? February 14, 2009 3:09 PM - “It's a psychological thing. Read Robert Altemeyer's book on the "rightwing authoritarian" personality type. These are people who favor a”
Posted on The Pity of It All February 10, 2009 6:15 PM - “There are two issues which get conflated. The first is one of goals. The "liberal" position is that we should”
Posted on New Thinking on the Economy February 9, 2009 12:38 PM - “Both sides share the same fundamental goal - to re-inflate the capitalist/consumerist system as quickly as possible. That's why we”
Posted on Senator Collins and the fateful choice: not stimulus but investment February 8, 2009 6:32 PM - “When compared to other developed countries the US has higher wealth inequality, poorer health care (even though it spends more),”
Posted on Understanding Opportunity January 24, 2009 12:27 PM - “I thought I was making three (sort of) novel points. 1. Decommissioning nuclear weapons and using the fissionable material 2.”
Posted on Nuclear Swords into Plowshares January 9, 2009 5:25 PM - “Don't listen to the rightwing trolls, keep up your critiques. Sometimes things don't need commenting on, although I'll say that”
Posted on Challenging Group Thinking Economists on Budget Deficits and the Dollar December 28, 2008 6:40 PM - “"They all do it" is not a defense. Try that the next time a cop picks you up for shoplifting.”
Posted on The Hypocrisy of Caroline's Critics December 24, 2008 12:58 PM - “I'd like to same something related to this: the loss of shame in the public space. Even without personhood, corporations”
Posted on Alternative Ownership Approaches for Corporate Accountability December 24, 2008 11:26 AM - “Thanks for following up on the prior posting. I have seen first hand some problems with non-profits and I think”
Posted on Alternative Ownership Approaches for Corporate Accountability December 24, 2008 10:16 AM - “I think you are half way there. Yes, there is a need for other stakeholders to have some say in”
Posted on The Problem is Not Executive Compensation or Greed December 23, 2008 3:31 PM - “The problem with the senate is that the empty states have too much power. 16% of the population controls 50%”
Posted on In Praise of the Blank Check December 22, 2008 2:31 PM - “If you find this posting of mine interesting you might like to read a few others of a similar nature”
Posted on On Being Old - People and Countries December 20, 2008 4:21 PM - “What I've not seen as any acknowledgment by the mainstream economists is that we are entering a new world. This”
Posted on A Final Note December 20, 2008 10:51 AM - “This is slightly off the main point, but when is it ever a good idea for a person to take”
Posted on Talk is Fine, But Rules are Needed Too December 19, 2008 3:00 PM - “I've got a short essay on "conservatism" where I argue that it is concerned with process not goals. Typical concerns”
Posted on The Top Dozen Insights of Conservatives, 2008 December 19, 2008 1:11 PM - “"Conservativism" is a catchall term that is trotted out to mean whatever the plutocracy is in favor of at the”
Posted on The Top Dozen Insights of Conservatives, 2008 December 19, 2008 11:36 AM - “Bubbles are a sign of a governance failure. Regulation is just one of the tools of governance. The reason we”
Posted on How Should Non-Depression Economics Be Changed? December 18, 2008 12:19 PM - “I don't think the crowding out argument holds except in exceptional times (like in the middle of WWII). I think”
Posted on Depression Economics: Normal Rules Don't Apply December 16, 2008 6:26 PM
