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Banking Reform, Blowouts, Plumes, etc.
A few items (apologies again for so few posts lately--the energy I'd be putting into posting has gone
D&S Author on Greece on Counterspin
Counterspin, the excellent radio edition of Extra!, the excellent left media criticism magazine of Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR)
*New* Post--Various Items
Now that I have at least a temporary fully functioning blog to use, I can post several items that have
Several Items on Arizona
Today's New York Times has an interesting article about generational differences in attitudes toward immigration and immigration reform.
Repost (May 11): Derivatives and Food Security
Bernie Sanders' provision requiring an audit of the Fed (see our May 3 post, Audit the Fed) appears to
Repost (May 7): Various Items
(1) About today's BLS unemployment report: As you have probably heard, the U.S. economy added 290,000
Repost (May 3): Audit the Fed
Sen. Bernie Sanders has proposed an amendment to the financial reform bill that would allow the Fed to be audited.
Dear Dr. Dollar:
With the crisis in Greece and other countries, commentators have said that governments are "under pressure from the bond market" or that bond markets will "punish" governments. What does this mean? --Nikolaos Papanikolaou, Queens, N.Y.
W(h)ither the Dollar?
The U.S. trade deficit, the global economic crisis, and the dollar's status as the world's reserve currency.
Minding the Gap
A review of The Spirit Level by Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett (New York: Bloomsbury Press, 2010).