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Robots Don’t Buy Stuff

With the fiscal cliff now swallowing the entirety of Washington and media corps, the rest of us can sit back and get on with life. We can also start to discuss the real issues that have eroded the economy. Some folks have just noticed that the balance between profits and wages is awry. A lot […]

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What Goes Around

Read any news story about the onrushing ‘fiscal cliff’ and somewhere within it will be a reference to the massive damage it is doing to business confidence. A major, if not the only, reason for limp business hiring and investment is the supposed uncertainty that the ‘cliff’ implies. Financial writers especially speak of the ‘cliff’ […]

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Week Ending December 7th – Cliff Edition

This week we learned that nothing matters. Nothing. Not unless it’s about the Fiscal Cliff. Then it matters. Really, really matters. Why? Because serious people everywhere say so. And, as we all know or ought to know, serious people everywhere know what they’re talking about. That the entire discussion is riven through with contradictions, errors, […]

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