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Commentary, Politics / bank reform, banking, democracy, Dodd-Frank, health care, plutocracy, regulation /

Extreme or Not Extreme?

January 7, 2016

That is the question. A friend of mine pointed me to Thomas Friedman’s latest effort in the New York Times. It’s too long for me to copy over en masse, so let me highlight a few things. Set aside the silly column title: “Up With Extremism”, I assume Friedman had nothing to do with that choice. […]

Commentary, Politics /

A New Year, Same Old

January 5, 2016

While I was taking year-end break the world seems to have taken a few steps towards the decidedly weird. I think the oddest story of the lot is the activity out in Oregon where a small group of gunmen have hold themselves up in a Federal bird sanctuary as an act of defiance against the […]

Economics, Politics / austerity, corporate taxes, deficits, fiscal cliff, Reagan, regulation, Republicans, taxes, wages /

Santa Claus, Taxes and Deficits

December 17, 2015

“Deficits don’t matter”, to borrow a phrase made famous by Dick Cheney. Hardly a left of center guy, Cheney was defending the sea of red ink Ronald Reagan created in the early 1980’s. Reagan, please recall, was the first president to plunge the US into deficits that were not related to war, economic downturn, or […]