Zohran Mamdani’s Bold Program for an Affordable New York City
In a shocking upset, socialist Zohran Mamdani bested former governor Andrew Cuomo in the June 24 New York City mayoral
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Growing CA Student Protests Over Tuition Hikes
Student protests against the decision to hike student fees by 32% have spread from UCLA across the University of California
UCLA Students Protest 32 Percent Tuition Hike
Students at UCLA have taken to the streets and occupied buildings in protest of an announced tuition hike of 32
WTO Says Brazil Can Saction US Over Cotton
The World Trade Organization has ruled that Brazil may impose trade sanctions against a variety of U.S. exports in
A Better Way to Regulate Financial Markets
From sometime D&S author Thomas Palley, in the Financial Times's Economists' Forum series: A better
The Worst Is Yet to Come (Nouriel Roubini)
From RGE Monitor and yesterday's NY Daily News, Nouriel Roubini tells the unemployed to "hunker down"
Sustainability and Horsesh*t
Here are two items related to climate change that read well next to each other. One is from a magazine
Maybe We Were a Tad Premature
...in our choice of the next bailout candidate. And this one surely needs watching in the longer-term. It's
Next Bailout Candidate
And the winner is...The Federal Housing Administration (FHA)! Lest it be forgotten, as the article duly notes: The FHA
Yves Smith on Krugman on Jobs
From the fantastic Yves Smith at Naked Capitalism: Krugman on the Need for Jobs Policies Paul Krugman has a good
'Politicization' of the Fed (Dean Baker)
There's an interesting article in today's New York Times about how Ben Bernanke has had to
The Public Purpose of Banking
Maybe Goldman Sachs should have used some of its bonus money to hire better P.R. folks—the company has
Change Wall Street can believe in (Holly Sklar)
Hat-tip to Mike P. By Holly Sklar Distributed by McClatchy Tribune News Service, 11/6/09 Copyright 2009 Holly Sklar