The New York Yankees earned some well-deserved criticism in the off-season when they spent a bazillion dollars on CC Sabathia, AJ Burnett and Mark Teixeira and then started charging admission at the […]
Ignoring America's recession
Back in 2001 the US Fed was considering the very real risk that the US government would be able to pay off their entire national debt. The government had been running a […]
John and Elizabeth Edwards agree: Getting us out of Iraq can end the recession
By Martin Bosworth After the sad event that was John Edwards ending his run for president, I wondered what he would do with himself next. While Clinton and Obama furiously courted him […]
Getting us out of Iraq can get us out of recession
By Martin Bosworth The American Prospect’s Harold Meyerson has an op-ed in the Washington Post today outlining the nature of the coming recession, and how our economic response is going to have […]
Fed prepares to “move the goalposts” to delay recession; Greenspan says “Not my fault”
By Martin Bosworth The phrase “moving the goalposts” has been applied most heavily in public discourse of late to the Bush regime’s “strategery” regarding the Iraq war. Through the “surge” and constant […]
Brexit: Facts cannot be denied. Eventually there are nothing but consequences.
The Globalist: “We’ve run out of time, and no amount of clever denunciations or legislation or voting will change the inevitable progression of the choices we have made, and the facts we […]
“Fact checking”: of lies, distortions, and omissions, intentional or otherwise
See also: our s@*t doesn’t stink Hi! It’s your friendly neighborhood gadfly, back to swing from your nose hairs for a moment. Common Dreams has a 90% excellent article up at the […]
Lyft, Uber: the shame of lesser work (and get ready for the automation of white collar jobs)
Automation is getting worse for workers, and the emotional strain is already evident. I’ve noticed something. When I take a Lyft (I never take Uber, although I imagine the same is true […]
Hensarling lies about the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau on NPR
Jeb Hensarling wants to go back to the bad old days of unregulated banks and insurance companies that gave us the Great Recession.
RNC train wreck heading for Cleveland
It will be an interesting couple of weeks in the CLE… Whenever someone mentions the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, which is about every hour if not more often, I can’t help […]
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