What’s Different About Today’s Government Deficit and Debt?
As of today, the U.S. government’s current deficit and debt are indeed currently at unprecedented levels for peacetime—once we account for them appropriately.
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Highway Robbery
In 1995, California granted a private company the right to construct express toll lanes along the State Route 91 freeway
Yves Smith on The Finance-led Counterrevolution and the Rush to Destroy the Safety Net
Yves Smith has said it better than I could in her blog, Naked Capitalism: “My sense is that the widespread
Grapes of Wrath, Indeed.
In last week’s New York Times Magazine, columnist Chuck Klosterman (“The Ethicist”) answered a reader question that started out
Can't take the Reds out of the Red Line
This picture is from the Red Line (one of the lines in the Boston area subway system, known as the
Homelessness Marathon, this Sunday, 10am-5pm
We received this email from our friend Jeremy Alderson, founder and host of an excellent annual radio program, the Homelessness
Screenings of Co-op documentary Shift Change; misc.
(1) Shiftchange: Via our former book editor, Dan Fireside (now at Equal Exchange) and others, a new documentary about worker-owned
Problems with the D&S Blog--Fixed!
[Update--I restored the missing blog posts! Original posts start tomorrow, I promise! --Chris Sturr] Dear D&S blog readers,
Repost: Two Nice Items on Romney on “the 47%”
Item 1: Hat-tip to Peter W.: From the blog Squashed, a great riposte to Romney’s claim that if your
Repost: New Co-editor! plus: Palast Excerpt!
(1) New Co-Editor! First things first: Dollars & Sense has a new co-editor! Or to be precise, our former magazine