When All Else Is Out of Bounds, Zap Labor
From Nixon’s wage controls to today’s interest rate hikes, the fight against inflation has targeted labor.
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Kwak on Mankiw on the Deficit
From Baseline Scenario; hat-tip to LF. James Kwak and Simon Johnson have a new book, 13 Bankers: The Wall
What to Do About Housing Foreclosures?
Dollars & Sense and the Boston chapter of Democratic Socialists of America are co-sponsoring a forum on the housing
Rethinking Poverty today
United Nations University (UNU) Office at the United Nations in New York will present a book launch this afternoon to
Security and Order Not the Issue in Haiti (Alternet)
Excellent piece on Haiti by Arun Gupta at Alternet. More Pain for Devastated Haiti: Under the Pretense of Disaster Relief,
CEO-As-Hero on CBS (Labor Notes)
Excellent piece from Labor Notes. The best bit is about how the CEO blathers on this "reality" TV
Break Up With Your Big Bank (Bankster)
Here, from Bankster, is another example of anti-big-bank activism, albeit of the PC consumerist sort, that *might* be
Obama's Junk Economics (Michael Hudson)
From Counterpunch: Obama's Junk Economics Democrats Say "Bye" to Populist Option In a dress rehearsal for
The New Deal in Reverse (Steve Fraser)
From TomDispatch, a piece by Steve Fraser criticizin' Obama's populist droppin' of g's and
Elizabeth Warren Calls Out Wall Street
From James Kwak at Baseline Scenario; hat-tip to LF. Although the Consumer Financial Protection Agency made it through the
Why Aren't There More Radicals at Work?
From the (new?) website, radicalsatwork.org: Works sucks and it's been getting worse in the U.S. for
Deficit Hawk, Progressive Style, Part II
As I wrote in Part I (Feb 3), the deficit hawks legitimately claim that huge deficits will hinder investment and
Mixed Jobs Report for January (BLS)
The Bureau of Labor Statistics has released its employment numbers for January. It is a mixed report: the official unemployment