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Off Topic: America and its Guns

October 2, 2015

America is an armed camp. It brims with guns. It is proud of its guns. It lauds its military above all other institutions, and it lauds its weaponry. America is a violent nation. America loves guns. It loves guns a whole lot more than most anything else. Much more than it loves peace. Indeed many […]

Economics / deficits, fiscal policy, plutocracy, Republicans, stimulus, tax cuts, tax policy, Trump /

Trump’s Tax Plan

September 30, 2015

I wasn’t going to mention it, but someone asked, so here’s what I think of Trump’s tax plan. Well, I can’t write that here. In broad terms the Trump tax plan is just another version of standard Republican dogma, with a twist here and there. It’s core is a massive tax cut: Trump would reduce the […]

Economics, Politics / automation, inflation, innovation, Kuznets, plutocracy, unemployment /

Automation and History

September 29, 2015

History always has something doesn’t it? Here is John Aziz writing at Pieria: “So what does that mean today, as we get caught up in this great new tsunami of technological innovation and Schumpeterian creative destruction? It means that we shoudn’t really fear the process we are going through. Yes, technology destroys some jobs. But […]

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