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Crisis of Capitalism 1

Crisis of Capitalism

RSA – Ideas and Actions for a 21st Century Enlightenment Uh-oh, it’s a marxist analysis. Hey, can Marx have things figured out correctly from time to time? Thanks to Austin K for passing this...

Quickie: I want the Democrats to win, so …. 0

Quickie: I want the Democrats to win, so ….

(Editor’s note. With this posting, we introduce “quickies”: short blurbs or summaries that are quick to read and — hopefully — dense in content. Links to interesting external content also count as quickies. Often...

Double Dip Anyone? 0

Double Dip Anyone?

The stock market continues to be on a roller coaster ride as it slides and then rebounds as traders engage in fishing the bottom and making trading commissions, sliding a few bucks out of...

The Adam Smith hardly anyone knows 0

The Adam Smith hardly anyone knows

http://www.huppi.com/kangaroo/Quotes-economics.htm The Adam Smith that everyone knows: Every individual… intends only his own gain, and he is in this, as in many other cases, led by an invisible hand to promote an end which...

The Only Real Solution to our Economic Problems is Active Democracy 0

The Only Real Solution to our Economic Problems is Active Democracy

In a recent article in the Los Angeles Time, economist James Galbraith argues that “Stimulus Alone was Never going to bring Recovery.” See http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-galbraith-economics-20110815,0,843976.story I agree in part with his solution: “Let’s build a...

Reality-challenged GOP presidential candidates 0

Reality-challenged GOP presidential candidates

What’s going on with the Republican Party? Their candidates keep getting further and further out in right field.  The Tea Party libertarians are more extreme than typical Republicans in their opposition to government and...

An unholy alliance is strangling Uncle Sam 0

An unholy alliance is strangling Uncle Sam

Be scared. Be very scared. [Graphic:  Uncle Sam being drowned in a bathtub, with five hands choking his throat] An alliance in the Republican Party has a stranglehold on the US political system.  The...