2009 Management Guff (Lucy Kellaway)
I've started to look forward to Lucy Kellaway's (of the Financial Times) annual run-down on
How Many People Are on Food Stamps?
A pop quiz: How many Americans are on food stamps? How many children in the United States are on food
Bringing Overpaid Executives to Heel
From today's LA Times. Hat-tip to Danny Postel. The cover story in our Nov/Dec issue, Have
Ponzi Collapses Nearly Quadrupled in '09 (AP)
From the Associated Press: Read the rest of the article.
Appeal to Our Blog Readers
Dear Regular Visitors to the D&S blog: If you read postings to the D&S blog via
$57,077.60, Surging by the Minute (Jo Comerford)
Tom Engelhart's last post of the year over at TomDispatch, is In Nightmares Begin Responsibilities: Why War Will
Krugman vs. Hudson on Samuelson
I was alerted by this post on Naked Capitalism to a back-and-forth between Paul Krugman and Michael Hudson
Bernanke, Time, Senate Banking Committee
Well the New York Times website is reporting that the Senate Banking Committee just approved Ben Bernanke for a second
Howard Dean: Kill the Senate Health Care Bill
From a Vermont Public Radio broadcast from Tuesday: Hear the segment.
Who Really Saved The Global Economy?
According to this Observer article, it was the global drugs lords: their money laundering activities provided the required marginal capital
Stop Usury Now (William Greider)
From The Nation (but: do not take this as an endorsement of Martha Coakley—some of us voted against her
Left of Obama
Caught a broadcast today on a Boston NPR station of an Intelligence Squared–US debate over the proposition: “Obama’s