The Radford Free Press – Page 170 – All life is problem solving.

Anniversary Blues

September 18, 2013

Well now. I hope you all feel a lot better. The crisis engulfed us five years ago. Since then … Welcome to the new boss, same as the old boss. Not much is different except the public is more disaffected than ever. Policy ranges between inept and horrible. And the front pages in the business […]

Economics / austerity, debt ceiling, economic policy, Federal deficit, government spending /

Debt Bomb From the CBO

September 17, 2013

Oh dear. Here we go … again. The Congressional Budget Office just lobbed a debt bomb into the fire that already consumes Washington. The timing, just a couple of weeks before we hit the debt ceiling could not have been more ill-timed. Talk about politically inept. Get ready for breathless headlines using the austerity crowd’s […]

Economics / bank reform, economic policy, economic theory, fiscal cliff, government spending, Obama, plutocracy, Republicans /

Parbuckle Policy?

September 17, 2013

For those of you buried in your debt debacle, government shutdown, defund Obamacare bunker allow me to offer you an insight into effective activity: the parbuckling of the Costa Concordia. What a success. The operation to re-float the stricken cruise ship went without a hitch. It was the most complex and largest effort of its […]