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Economics, Politics / austerity, economic policy, Federal Budget, fiscal policy, GDP, government spending, growth, plutocracy, Republicans, Trump /

Budget Fog and Budget Clarity

May 23, 2017

On a clear day we can dream of being free from the farce and incompetence that is Trump. Meanhwile back in reality … The Trump budget released this week is both indescribably foggy and clear as a bright spring day. It is a perfect statement of ‘Trumpism’ from its devastation of the poor, through its […]

Economics / economic theory, General equilibrium /

Equilibrium: A Weed to Pull

May 18, 2017

Just how pejorative must we be in order to get attention? There are silly things in economics that need to be weeded out, so that something better can emerge. Sometimes I just say the whole thing is a waste of time, after all economics is not simply a body of thought, but it is also […]

Politics / Bernie Sanders, Democrats, Hillary Clinton /

Election 2016

May 8, 2017

With the daily show that is Trump, along with it overt corruption and pandering to the plutocracy, I sometimes ponder what if … I was never a Clinton fan: she is a vestige of the neoliberal turn the Democrats took as they quaked at the feet of Reagan, but she would have been better than […]