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Cliff Walking

December 4, 2012

This is really irksome. For most of this phony war, as the key players strut their stuff for public eyes but not for serious negotiation, the Republicans have been oddly coy about what their plan would be. They released no details, gave no hints, and merely repeated their continuing objection to the horror of a […]

Economics / austerity, business investment, consumption, demand, economic policy, fiscal cliff, inventories, plutocracy, real estate, trade, unemployment /

Update On The Economy

November 29, 2012

It’s been a long break occasioned by a string of visitors. What happened in the interim? Not a whole lot. Washington is now deeply immersed in the three ring circus known as the fiscal cliff, an event, we are told, so horrendous that we all ought to be prepared to sacrifice our preconceived notions of […]

Commentary /

What Science?

November 20, 2012

OK, one more bash at electioneering. One of my contentions is that the Republicans will have a hard time pivoting back to sanity any time soon, and thus are likely to start with a major handicap in 2016, because the party’s next generation of leadership has all grown up in the extremist era. So to […]