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Weekly Summary / austerity, economic policy, government spending, Obama, Republicans /

There He Goes Again

April 5, 2013

I have a friend who can be guaranteed to wax lyrical about anything Barack Obama does. Me? Not so much. I have never been a big fan. I look at him as being the least worst option. Good on a few social issues, making a start on health care, botching bank reform [horribly], and generally […]

Economics / austerity, economic policy, government spending, growth, job creation, Obama, Republicans /

Austerity Bites? Jobs Evaporate.

April 5, 2013

And some of you thought that budget cuts were a good thing. We knew today’s jobs report from the government was going to be bad because of Wednesday’s ADP data on the private sector. But this bad? Not many went this far down in their forecasts. The US economy added a miserly 88,000 jobs in […]

Commentary / austerity, banking, democracy, government spending, plutocracy /

Austerity: Democracy Versus Capitalism

April 4, 2013

That’s where we are. That’s where we’ve been for a while. That’s where we’re likely to stay. Get used to it. Don’t get me wrong: the history of the past two hundred or so years have shown that capitalism – depending on how you define it – has been a good thing. Yes, it has. […]

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