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Economics / commercial real estate, home prices, jobs, recession, recovery, stimulus, unemployment, wages /

Jobs and Housing: Better News

April 22, 2010

The stuttering sound you hear is the economy as it attempts, yet again, to gain momentum. Last fall we all were excited about those ‘green shoots’ popping up all over the place. After the horrendous dip of late 2008 and early 2009 practically anything constituted an advance. Now, a full six months later, our standards […]

Economics / economic theory, GDP /

What is ‘Wealth’?

April 20, 2010

Amidst all the furor over the Goldman Sachs fraud scandal and the drama surrounding bank reform – actually lack of drama since the Republicans have wheeled out their ‘just say no’ policy platform – I noticed a little discussed letter going from the Congressional Budget Office to a Republican Congressman evaluating the impact of climate […]

Economics / B. of A., banking, Citibank, Geithner, Goldman Sachs, Jamie Dimon, JP Morgan Chase, Lloyd Blankfein, regulation /

Fix Wall Street … Please

April 20, 2010

I apologize to those of you who are sick and tired of the flood of Wall Street news. You want to know more about the ‘real’ economy, and less about finance. Well, blame the banks. They have co-opted our economy, and are abusing it for fun and profit. They have to be stopped. There is […]

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