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Our Age of Imbalance

Dean Baker unloads on Alan Greenspan. Correctly. After all Greenspan’s hands were at one of the tillers that steered us all relentlessly onto the rocks back in before the crisis, so he deserves all the opprobrium we can throw against him. The problem is that the media still reveres Greenspan and treats him as a […]

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All Noisy On The Economics Front

One of the fun aspects of our continued dire circumstance is that all the lunatic name calling in politics and the associated brouhaha is being matched, step for step, by a similarly chaotic upheaval in economics. The latter is probably a less public bun fight, but it’s just as entertaining. The once vaunted halls of […]

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A Proper Agenda

I read Obama’s speech in which he urged Congress to move on from last weeks’ farce with a little concern. It seemed that he misses the point about what a proper economic agenda ought to be. Well from my point of view, naturally. You see he listed there priorities: Get a deal done on the […]

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