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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 […]

Politics / austerity, Boehner, deficits, Republicans /

Boehner’s Demise

September 25, 2015

Losing John Boehner from his post as leader of the fractious Republican party in the House of Representatives marks another step in the slow attrition of the key figures who brought us this lingering economic malaise. It was he, after all, that so clearly damned growing Federal expenditure and the consequent bulge in the budget deficit brought […]

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