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  • Why (the fox) Bernanke is a genius
  • –Oklahomans: You wanted Republican; you got Republican
  • Student loans: The upper 1% goes nuts
  • –Monster scandal; massive confusion; when will taxes end?
  • –How the Republicans may save the economy and save Obama from himself
  • –Five reasons why we should eliminate school loans
  • –Holder clarifies: Banks not too big to jail. Or wait, maybe they are. Or not.
  • Are you enjoying your austerity?
  • –Why, this year, you have a greater chance of losing your house and your life to fire.
  • –How austerity could kill you and your family: Bird flu
  • –How the rich brainwash the rest, in America and in Texas
  • –Shame and greed: The ongoing legacy of a President. Another voice heard.
  • –Is he taking bribes or is he merely ignorant?
  • –The two great American con jobs of the 21st century
  • Two gun stories. Which will you tell your friends?
  • –Why China can’t change the design of the U.S. flag
  • –Barack Obama and the Chicago way
  • –One poll: What America believes about the likelihood of revolution
  • Why Privatization? Here’s why:
  • –Does the Tea Party still exist?
  • –Why Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid and aids to the poor will be cut
  • –The single biggest reason labor unions struggle.
  • Is this the end of austerity and the beginning of “We always knew it”?
  • The Plan: How the rich intentionally poison you, your children and your unborn generations
  • –Why this treachery from AARP, the “protector of the elderly”?
  • –Have you heard about the madness in Scotland?
  • –Can there be an economy in which no one owns anything?
  • –Blaming the victim and other government tricks.
  • –The voices of evil continue to speak. Are you deceived?
  • –How our children are indoctrinated with the Big Lie.
  • –Nowhere to hide for Obamausterity and Congress. Reinhart/Rogoff research was a lie.
  • –The debt-deposit duality. How much is the federal debt? $12 trillion? $10 trillion? $0?
  • –Weep for the gold (bubble) bugs
  • –The CTJ shows why the taxpayer myth is the heart of our problem
  • –What President Obama learned from Mayor Daley
  • –Obama Growth Plan: More deficit. No, wait. Less deficit. Drain your blood to cure your anemia. Trust me.
  • Epigenetics: How Today’s Austerity Can Degrade Humanity, Forever
  • –Whom do you know, at the AFL-CIO?
  • –When, the revolution?
  • –Suitable for Framing
  • –Absolute proof deficit reduction (austerity) works, even though you can’t.
  • –If President Obama really wants to reduce gun violence . . .
  • –Demagogs, guns and kangaroos
  • –Looking down. The disdain for those below us, Ireland version.
  • –Buffett, Obama and the taking of the American public
  • –Gay marriage is here. MSBs, get over it
  • –Sick? Poor? Aged? You’re lucky to live in the richest nation in the world.
  • The decline and fall of the American empire
  • –China forecast to overtake US by 2016. It’s your fault.
  • –Banks are being robbed. Why doesn’t Butch Cassidy seem to care?
  • Don’t be shy, MMT. It’s bribery, pure and simple.
  • –Whither Goes The Magic Wand Economy?
  • –The Obama legacy: The man who crushed America’s middle class
  • –“We’d be better off leaving the euro and returning to the pound. We don’t want to end up like Greece.”
  • –Another great Bill Black article, needing just one addition
  • –The meaning of America
  • The secret: Why Obama really, really wants to cut Social Security
  • Germany: “Eat our neighbors, then kill our citizens.” WWII revisited.
  • As I said, Congress has been bribed.
  • Question of the day: Why is it easier to believe in worldwide ignorance than in conspiracy?
  • –The Nation aids the .1%’s effort to enslave the nation, by Katrina vanden Heuvel
  • –MMT: Save America. Focus on the gap.
  • –Economics in three pictures: Makers, Takers and Deficit Cutting
  • –Electronic Empathy and The Invisible Damage of Austerity
  • –How very clever you are to murder those you love
  • -Hoover, Smoot and Hawley reincarnated as Obama, Bowles and Simpson
  • –How the Fed’s “Quantitative Easing” was designed to trick you into demanding your own economic suicide
  • –I’m not alone. Yet another voice telling how the rich bribe politicians to impoverish you.
  • –The Dems are right. The GOP is right. And the 1% laugh all the way to the bank
  • –Kings, serfs and Congress
  • –”Shotgun Joe” solves the gun problem
  • –Poland debates the economic suicide of austerity
  • –Income inequality: The Stilgitz, Roubini, Buffett solution.
  • –Budget cuts coming: Great news for us rich people
  • –“Flip the Debt.” Will they learn from “Occupy’s” mistake?
  • –Where is the FDIC for insurance premium payers?
  • –Obama wants to stabilize our finances. Has no idea what that means.
  • –The moneyed-class’s myth of private sector superiority
  • –The largest criminal enterprise in history.
  • –Write to Professor Kelton and ask her these questions
  • –Has Europe now formalized its suicide pact?
  • –Bit by bit, the 1% diminish America. The death by a thousand cuts continues
  • –More evidence for those who doubt the 1%’s scheme to beat down the 99%. It’s the gap, stupid
  • –More examples of the rich stealing from you
  • –Political Bribery, the most powerful, yet ignored, force in economics.
  • –Why would Congress intentionally allow the economy to be injured?
  • –Is the “religious” right actually getting religion?
  • –An amazing article about the Spanish economy and what it means to America.
  • The right wing, religious, compassionate, generous American patriots speak
  • –The Geithner legacy grows
  • –The poor are lazy, good-for-nothing leeches.
  • –The stupidifying of our children
  • –“Framing” has brainwashed America, but Krugman will save us.
  • –It happens here, there and everywhere. Is this really so hard to understand?
  • –Yet another effort by the 1% to widen the gap and screw the 99%. Enough never is enough.
  • –Five proofs showing why the federal deficit should be cut
  • –MMT: To make your case, begin with what people already believe
  • –Meet those who beg Obama to take an additional $20,000 from each of them — and give it to the rich
  • –Change is needed, Republicans — and not just in your politics.
  • –America Should Declare Bankruptcy: Doug Casey
  • –The party of Lincoln debates relief for those devastated by Hurricane Sandy
  • –Senator Durbin continues to cement his legacy
  • –Republicans’ plan to destroy your financial life. They know you won’t do anything about it.
  • –Great movements begin with civil disobedience. Is this the time?
  • –Obama plays politics; to hell with the middle- and lower income classes who elected him
  • Guns in schools. The only way to beat ‘em is to join ‘em.
  • Will the Harry Houdini Congress implement its next magic trick: Warrants?
  • –The George Will legacy: Will-onomics, the balanced budget plan to create an American depression.
  • –When are you going to get angry?
  • –The question that frightens Barack Obama most
  • Have you demanded to join the suicide pact? Are your children and grandchildren in it?
  • –Guns are here to stay. How do we slow the killing and maiming? Four thoughts.
  • –Barack Obama, the Portuguese austerity president.
  • –The real benefits of the Platinum Coin Solution
  • –Who says the National Rifle Association and its followers aren’t good for the American economy?
  • –Et tu, Vanguard??
  • –Florida Sun Sentinel clearly expresses the ignorance of the day
  • –Er, ah, excuse me, but aren’t you the folks who want to cut federal spending?
  • –Scientific American editors break own rules.
  • Middle class screwed again. FICA increased. Gap between the rich and the rest grows
  • –Screwed again, and proud of it. Federal debt vs. business debt
  • –Republicans double down on middle class destruction. Dems not far behind.
  • –Tricky Paul Krugman, still no cigar.
  • –Suggested: The National Enquirer approach to solving the mythical “deficit crisis.”
  • –To be considered rich, I don’t need more money. . .
  • –Treason: It’s hard for the public to accept the crime without knowing the motive.
  • –Here is how deficit reduction really works
  • –A Christmas letter to Bruce Dold, editorial page editor of the Chicago Tribune
  • –Some blowback from MMT
  • –Why MMT frustrates the hell out of me
  • The NRA solution makes me feel secure
  • –Obama Speech Places Him Among Top Presidents in U.S. History
  • –The Obama legacy: Curried favor with his upper .1% income group contributors, while screwing the people who elected him.
  • –Gun control II: Simple laws to which no reasonable person could object
  • –Are you enjoying the “good cop, bad cop,” kabuki theater of the absurd?
  • –Drowning Europe swims one inch toward a distant shore.
  • –Gun control
  • Your handy recession predictors
  • –Deficit reduction (austerity) destroys more American lives and families than war.
  • –What is the purpose of the charitable tax deduction? Who will be hurt if it’s reduced?
  • –Fed embraces madness: Repeatedly does the same thing, expecting a different result
  • 108 so-called “economists,” who put their reputations and their legacies on a shameful letter
  • –You think you’re smart? So why do you do the dirty work of the .1%?
  • –The Obama conspiracy dance continues. Hope you’re enjoying the show.
  • Revealing the conspiracy: A recommendation for followers of MMT and Monetary Sovereignty
  • –How the rich are screwing you, and how you can fight back
  • –How the UK teaches America about economics
  • –The nineteen top idiotic comments about our economy
  • Just a little message regarding the BIG LIE.
  • –Russia, South Korea, Mexico, India and Brazil buy tulip bulbs to hedge against the dollar
  • –The Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget and the death of a thousand cuts
  • –All you suckers need to know about Barack Obama
  • –They can die in the military, defending America, but by heaven, we won’t let them be citizens
  • –Eurozone discovers formula for economic growth while raising taxes, reducing spending and paying off loans.
  • –The FICA disgrace
  • –Why you don’t want Congress or your friends to fly your plane
  • –The arithmetic of austerity. It’s not a “fiscal cliff.” It’s a “death spiral”
  • –U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s ongoing effort to screw the middle class (and the poor, too)
  • –Economics of today for the worlds of tomorrow: Telepresence
  • –The words which will live in infamy
  • –Obama’s legacy: He could have. He should have. He didn’t.
  • –Chicago Tribune nominated for Guinness World Record
  • –Sorry to say this: Obama really is a liar and a traitor to the middle class. But Romney would have been worse
  • –The cure for the fiscal cliff: The fiscal slide
  • –Lesson in life: When a plan always fails and never, ever can succeed, do it.
  • –What have the Republicans learned?
  • –Throwing sand on the fire, and other childish solutions to the cold.
  • –What does Obama’s victory mean for the future of America? Will the cavalry ride to the rescue?
  • –The 13 key election issues and the single most important one
  • –Mooing along with the herd, the mainstream scientific method
  • –What President Obama’s “grand bargain” means to your wallet
  • –Why you should not vote
  • –Scientific American magazine not so scientific.
  • –How your lords (Yes, you have lords) use myths to rule you.
  • –Congratulations Yahoo Finance on publishing the dopiest poll of the year.
  • –You never will know what you have lost: IV
  • –The single biggest issue in the coming Presidential election
  • –Honest Henry Blodget: Do you believe him?
  • –Much ado about nothing. The end of the dollar as reserve currency
  • What is the federal debt? A primer for politicians.
  • Italy’s and America’s solution: Do more of what has failed.
  • –Part II of Mitt Romney’s infamous 47% rant
  • –There was far more to Mitt Romney’s infamous “47%” rant than you may think
  • –So tell me again: Why don’t you want prosperity?
  • –”If-we-help-them,-they’ll-love-us” syndrome. Danger: Amateurs handling dynamite
  • –Lies, lies, lies about the euro. Then amazingly: The Truth.
  • –Which Mitt-flip will receive your vote? Pro-choice or multiple-choice?
  • –The most astounding “rich guy” letter you ever have read
  • –What good is global warming?
  • –The most hilarious concept in economics — or the most frightening
  • –How can we bankrupt America in one easy step?
  • –Take this 20 second sanity test.
  • –Washington and the 1% work to increase the income gap via recession
  • –Why Polish people are smarter than their government, the EU and the IMF — and the American people
  • IMF, ECB and Greece, oh my! How the innocent are led to slaughter by the incompetent.
  • –Wanted for the Most Powerful Job on Earth: Competence and Courage. No Cowards Need Apply
  • –No need to visit Spain. Spain is coming to visit you.
  • –Travel to Spain to see a culture of dependency
  • –How do they believe THIS if they believe THAT?
  • –How Paul Volcker depleted his legacy in 5 minutes
  • –Romney’s fake tax return
  • –The “culture of dependency,” the deeds of the letter carriers, the words of the bible
  • –The coming election: Obama vs. ???
  • –Anyone heard from Occupy Wall Street lately? Part II
  • –Congress’s plan: Spend less while spending more. Cut employment while reducing unemployment.
  • –How can a little, amateurish, two-bit film inflame 1.6 billion people?
  • Cause and Effect: Why the income gap will continue to widen
  • –Joe Firestone’s excellent post regarding Moody’s stupid threats.
  • –Is it possible for the federal budget process to get crazier?
  • –Low interest rates: The sneak tax on you.
  • –How much should the rich pay in taxes?
  • –You never will know what you have lost. Part III
  • John Kass and the war myth
  • –Is America better off today than it was when Obama took office?
  • –We are in a never-ending war. On which side are you?
  • –Sucking Up: Has an Eminent Economist Sacrificed His Honor and Credibility to Grovel for a Job?
  • –An unrecognized problem in American education
  • –What is “stimulus” and why does it ALWAYS work?
  • –Everyone knows the best way to drain blood out of an anemic.
  • –Why President Obama has aided and abetted the criminal banksters, and why he may change.
  • –Yet another fairy tale: $716 billion “stolen” from Medicare
  • –Israel drinks the austerity Kool-Aid
  • –The coming election: Presidents come and go, but the Supreme Court is “forever”
  • –Why does the right wing never seem to run out of crazies?
  • –China in deep trouble – or maybe not. Should we care?
  • –Unemployment, Disemployment and the new focus on OPTIMUM EMPLOYMENT
  • –Congress in Wonderland: Cut the deficit, but don’t cut the deficit. And it’s all their fault.
  • –How would you make disemployment work?
  • –Former (?) Debt-Hawk Admits Federal Debt is Necessary
  • –Krauthammer sneers at you ignorant peasants
  • –Recognize the buzz words used by political, lying whores
  • –The BIG LIE: It’s everywhere. Repetition creates belief, which creates more repetition.
  • –AARP President Rob Romasco admits FICA does not support Social Security
  • –Mathematical proof that deficits should be increased. Send it to your favorite debt-hawk
  • –Have you bribed a politician lately?
  • –The indecisive and the deceptive join forces to increase the gap between the 1% and the 99%
  • –Why starve the economy to feed the governement?
  • –Did you know the economy is running a $1.2 trillion profit?
  • –Casper the Ghost clarifies his positions. Well, not exactly.
  • –Casper the Ghost supported by less educated, white, working class voters
  • The battle of money is being fought on the field of morality
  • –Political correctness gone wild
  • –With your approval, the government steals dollars from you
  • –I’m really surprised to find myself disagreeing with Marshall Auerback about minimum wage
  • –New Paradigm II: What are your plans for the Age of Disemployment?
  • Trying to survive in this world of debt-hawk finger pointing and voter remorse. GO BIG!!
  • –NPR still falsely claiming to broadcast “both sides” of important issues. Write them
  • –The new paradigm: Disemployment. Less work; more life.
  • –Et tu, Netanyahu? Israel joins the ranks of suicidal nations
  • The cattle, dumb, drooling and defeated, obediently slump into the slaughterhouse, with never a “moo” in protest.
  • –Loans, deposits, fiscal prudence and financial nuttiness, all rolled into one.
  • –Why Canada is Doomed
  • –GSA pumps $1 million into the U.S. economy. Congress outraged
  • –Actually, the 2nd Amendment doesn’t legalize private gun ownership, but so what? There is a solution to gun violence.
  • –Preventing the fiscal cliff. Increase taxes while not increasing taxes. The “loophole” solution.
  • –Congress makes astounding discovery: Reducing deficits (aka austerity) causes recessions
  • Mitt Romney, Bain Capital and being a good businessman
  • –Here we go again — another benefit program for the 99% under siege by the 1%
  • Readers offer insights into federal ownership of banks. How should America decide “who-gets-money”?
  • –The end of private banking. Part II
  • –Dig hole; fill same hole. Step forward; step back. Congress at work.
  • –Congress leads us lemmings over the fiscal cliff and we happily jump. Hey, who needs Jesse Jackson, Jr.?
  • –Curing the student loan problem, and helping to reduce unemployment, all at one stroke
  • –Epic battle: The Chicago Tribune editors vs. The Chicago Tribune editors
  • –Online sales taxes: The five issues and the one solution to all five
  • –No, it’s not your imagination. The upper 1% really are screwing you more.
  • –Under the title, “Any Idiot Can Express An Opinion,” here is the opinion of Washington Post’s Jonathan Rauch
  • –A helpful message from a real Medicare expert: AARP’s Patricia Barry
  • –Well, that ought to help France’s economy recover.
  • –Republicans: Beating Obama is more important than health care for the poor.
  • –How God fights NASA
  • –The Medicare for All — every man, woman and child in America
  • –The next healthcare struggle and how it could be solved
  • –The facts about “Obamacare,” without all the political BS. What you really need to know.
  • –Obamacare survives Supreme Court
  • Good news! Student loans as crappy as ever, with even less time to pay them down.
  • What will be the legacy of the Roberts Supreme Court?
  • –How you can help close the gap. (No, writing to politicians and newspapers won’t do it.)
  • –Who, in the world of economics, is asking for that next super-computer?
  • –As it is written, so it happens. The 1%’s Divide and Conquer strategy in full action mode.
  • –Why does the 1% upper income WIN the war against the 99%?
  • –Why does the 1% upper income FIGHT the war against the 99%?
  • DINOs and RINOs still trampling the LAWN, which enjoys being trimmed and stepped on.
  • –Traders buy 2 myths: Fed and austerity stimulate economy. Proof money and brains don’t always go together.
  • Greek vote: A win “for all Europe.”
  • –Anyone heard from #Occupy lately? Does anyone care?
  • –When inmates run the asylum and porters steer the ship. This time, it’s Medicare.
  • –Times are bad, so let’s toss out the aliens. Protectionism always has worked for us in the past.
  • –Or, we could have moved inland, to higher ground . . .
  • –Why not increase federal deficit spending? Here’s why.
  • –Baucus, Obama and Rivlin, oh my! Austerity is on the loose. Guard your wallet.
  • –Read today’s truly hilarious news article about Spain
  • –Which is more important to our lives: Meteorology or economics?
  • –How to bail a boat, European style.
  • –AARP’s big lie and why you shouldn’t buy their insurance.
  • –Who needs federal employees? Not Congress. Not the President. Not us.
  • –Congress and the President fiddle while America’s students burn
  • –The EU searches for yet another Rube Goldberg solution to simplifying trade
  • –Lawrence “Sleepy” Summers comedy hour renewed for another season.
  • –Congressional Budget Office discusses two mutually exclusive theories about the economy. Believes both.
  • –“You can’t fire me. I’m on JG”
  • –Republicans flip flop on Obama care. Romney next? Is that really a question?
  • –Tragic or hilarious? “Social Security disability trust fund projected to run out of cash by 2016″
  • –Why Modern Monetary Theory’s Jobs Guarantee is like the EU’s euro: A beloved solution to the wrong problem.
  • –That old suicide urge has the left in its spell
  • –Lazy Thinking, Originalists, the Historians Fallacy, Stupid Brains and the Supreme Court
  • –Politicians get it bass-ackwards: Say, “Yes,” to taxes, “No,” to spending. As usual, 99% are screwed.
  • –Employment numbers you may not have thought about — but should.
  • –Has Vallejo, California found the solution to city financial survival?
  • –The Obama non-spending spree and the road to depression
  • –The solution to the income gap in less than 1000 words.
  • –How did the 1% convince the 99% to lose the war?
  • The utter failure of the International Monetary Fund, and why it damages the world.
  • –How the euro zone would build an airplane
  • –A truly outstanding summary of Monetary Sovereignty for those who want to understand economics
  • Europe discusses applying leeches to cure anemia, and reducing calories to cure starvation.
  • –Coming soon to a world near you: Economics for cyborgs. Humans as a transition species.
  • –#Occupy, to get ahead, get a head, and stay the hell away from Chicago during the NATO summit.
  • –Why Greece will look back at the other euro nations and laugh.
  • –At long last, are we ready to end private banking?
  • –The single most important characteristic for the President of the United States of America
  • –Everything you need to know about the Tea/Republican Party, in 5 short paragraphs
  • –Will the NATO summit in Chicago be peaceful or will there be riots?
  • –What caused an entire nation to go insane, and can that happen here?
  • Paul Krugman may be starting to get it.
  • –Kansas descends into the deep, dark hole of ultra right wing intolerance and hypocrisy
  • –House GOP To Shift Defense Cuts To Poverty Programs. Does this echo your values?
  • –Which of these three candidates do you support: Barack Obama, Flip Romney or Flop Romney”
  • –France changes leaders. Why and who next?
  • –Push button economics and the end of economists. Good riddance to us.
  • –The Zelig of American politics meets the clowns of American finance. A plot of humor and horror.
  • –How IBM can change the world
  • –”Two views of the #Occupy movement,” or “These guys are a riot.”
  • –Lawrence Summers: Failing to the top
  • –Euro nations debate which brand of aspirin to prescribe for their cancer
  • –Think of China as a mirror, to show us what we are and what we must do
  • –The United States of Europe: The when and the how.
  • –Does R. Bruce Dold not understand the meaning of the prefix, “non”?
  • –I am a SETI buff and I don’t know why.
  • A little note to all you who believe federal spending should be cut and taxes increased. Enjoy your slice of just deserts
  • –Congress debates whether to cut off your arms, your legs or your head, to improve your life.
  • –Institutionalized bigotry and reasonable people.
  • –Associated Press’s Nancy Benac claims taxpayers pay for Obama travels. Wrong, Nancy.
  • University of Chicago Economics still living in a pre-1971 world. Astrology next on the curriculum?
  • –The rise and fall of America. The cost of ignorance and austerity.
  • –Chicago Tribune says: Supreme Court, Congress, White House and Military projected to run out of money.
  • –Just a few words about the Secret Service scandal
  • –What is the disgrace of America? How will we die?
  • –Which costs you more, federal government stealing or local government stealing?
  • –The single, most astounding quote you ever may read. It explains some of why the world’s economies are in trouble.
  • –Very revealing interview with Christine Lagarde, managing director of the IMF
  • –A think piece: What if the U.S. passed a law against exporting?
  • How our leaders and our teenagers take responsibility: “Don’t blame us. It’s all China’s fault.”
  • –Which Presidential candidate offers the better plan for closing the income gap?
  • –How the Internet can make the entire human race stupid, forever
  • –Will you follow a leader who has no compass and doesn’t care where he’s going? Meet the Zelig of American politics.
  • –Which is the greater threat: Inflation or recession?
  • –Why the “bad” news about Medicare is good news, and why you’re supposed to regret not starving the economy
  • –How cutting Medicaid will give the poor and middle classes, doctors, nurses and hospitals nice haircuts
  • –News: Doctors advise smoking safe cigarettes. Paul Ryan advises cutting programs for the poor.
  • An interesting and timely graph that may signal a coming recession
  • –Neville Chamberlain proudly signs Munich Agreement. Barack Obama proudly signs JOBS act.
  • –Finally! Time Magazine gets it! Oh, wait. Hold your applause. False alarm. Sorry.
  • –$3.5 billion stealth tax
  • –Read Dennis Byrne’s rational discussion of health care insurance.
  • –This is an appeal to America’s clergy. Please do your job.
  • –How President Obama surrendered the principles of the Democratic Party, and lost the health care battle.
  • –A quick, Sunday afternoon’s lesson in the difference between monetary non-sovereignty and Monetary Sovereignty.
  • –The myth of private enterprise superiority, reduced government and Ronald Reagan.
  • –Why are these people protesting? What do they want? 5 dunce caps
  • –The end of private banking: Why the federal government should own all banks.
  • –Four more VIPs who are clueless about Monetary Sovereignty. Four dunce caps awarded.
  • –How the wealthy control the law.
  • –Monetary Sovereignty for Young People, Part 5. Medicare
  • – Katrina vanden Heuvel writes an article I wish I had written.
  • –Monetary Sovereignty for Young People, Part 4. Social Security
  • –Monetary Sovereignty for Young People, Part 3. Inflation
  • –Monetary Sovereignty for Young People, Part 2. What is a dollar?
  • –Monetary Sovereignty for young people: 1
  • –Dear Lord, what has happened to my Republican Party? Five traitor images.
  • U.S. Treasury makes a profit. Is this good news or bad news?
  • –The International Monetary Fund: Crazy, stupid — or is it something else?
  • –Reason # 1,005 why the Tea/Republicans are wrong, wrong, wrong.
  • What is AARP’s real mission? Not what you might think.
  • –Here’s hoping the Puerto Ricans enjoy a good joke — or two.
  • –People of Greece: My heart goes out to you. You’re being ruled and destroyed by idiots.
  • –Even those, who understand, don’t really understand. Christina Romer came close, but no cigar.
  • –U.S. Taliban alive and well in Mississippi and Alabama. Votes for theocracy.
  • –Steve Forbes almost wins, but falls flat only inches from the finish line
  • –U.S. voters elect Obama Sheik of Araby
  • –Kansas and Santorum: A match made in heaven.
  • –Thank goodness Greece didn’t default or go bankrupt. So, what DID it do and what happens next?
  • –How to defeat that huge, frightening, trade deficit, Chinese dragon — in one simple step
  • –How are humans unique? And what does this have to do with Monetary Sovereignty?
  • –The euro nations’ convoluted, byzantine Whac-a-mole solution to monetarily non-sovereign debt.
  • –Mitt reveals his Iran and coat-holding strategies. Bad guys flee in panic.
  • –If you want to know why the world is so screwed up, look to the IMF
  • –There is one thing CNNMoney doesn’t appear to understand: Money
  • –French lobster leaders debate best way to pull their economy down
  • –The religious right loves Rush Limbaugh
  • –European Union keeps applying leeches to cure anemia. If Ireland refuses to starve, withhold food.
  • –A think piece: The science of economics and our survival.
  • –The world according to Rick Santorum. How did America arrive at this place?
  • –A think piece: Why are rivers and roads like growing the economy?
  • –Why Lower Corporate Taxes Won’t Create More Jobs. Oh, really?
  • –New York Times parrots the same old myths about corporate taxes. How lazy can you get?
  • –The Washington Post’s best economics article, ever. And still it’s wrong.
  • It’s everywhere; it’s everywhere. The debt myth touches you and everyone and everything.
  • –The brainwashing of America: Economic debt myth pervades the entire New York Times.
  • –John Mauldin, one of the best paid gardeners, outdoes himself.
  • –With friends like these: How AARP’s misunderstanding of the facts hurts their members.
  • Who says Mitt has no sense of humor. This is as funny as it gets.
  • –The Japanese crisis. What is it and could it happen here?
  • –Wake up, America! You are being led to a Greek tragedy by fools
  • –U.S. Congress and the President find a way to allow boats to sail as far as they wish without falling over the edge of the world. Boats to be built out of thinner, flimsier wood.
  • –Who are the people who vote Republican these days? Why do they hate so much?
  • –The EU’s solution for Greece — translated.
  • What do money supply, interest rates and religion have in common? A lesson on confusing the public.
  • –The confidence fairy meets the panic genie in Greece
  • –The euro comedy continues. But don’t laugh at their ignorance. Our Tea/Republicans and the Dems are of the same mind.
  • –AARP continues to peddle — this time it’s false information
  • –Visualize a busload of passengers, speeding down a narrow, winding, ice-slicked mountain road, and driven by a crazed, blind driver.
  • –How to starve the goose that lays the golden eggs: Taxing business
  • –EU: The only cure for Greek sickness is Greek suicide
  • –John Mauldin discusses the Medicare dilemma, then doesn’t say how to solve it. Here’s the solution:
  • –The needless Medicaid dilemma, and how to solve it
  • –Ben Bernanke’s amazing testimony of lies to Congress
  • –Extra! Extra! Read all about it! Chicago Tribune sets record for most ignorant editorial
  • –Another open letter to the President of the United States
  • –How President Obama should deal with filibusters:
  • The President’s prayer for the November election . . .
  • –Dr. Bernanke: “I’m puzzled. I keep drawing blood from the patient, but he hardly improves at all.”
  • –As a voter, do you want honesty or someone who only will say what he thinks you want to hear?
  • –How government regulators are devoted to helping the American people.
  • –What do you think about the issues and candidates?
  • –The art of misdirection: How to keep the 99% in bondage, by seeming to punish the 1%.
  • –The Balance Sheet Boogie. Don’t you wish you could do it?
  • –Economics 101: To cure anemia, bleed the patient. Then starve the goose that lays the golden egg.
  • –What is your ideal for the most powerful job in the world: President of the United States?
  • –Ever so slowly, the mainstream media realization sets in. Even Michael Schuman is starting to get it. Maybe.
  • –Whither the “war savings” and Alice in Wonderland logic
  • –The world parade: Europe marches over the cliff. America follows. Tea Party cheers.
  • –Again I lay my head on the MMT chopping block. Why JG (formerly ELR) is obsolete.
  • MMT’s Job Guarantee (JG) — “Another crazy, rightwing, Austrian nutjob?”
  • –Three ignorant and one cleverly ignorant
  • –Oh, New Jersey, you are so screwed! You too, New York.
  • –A few short stories
  • –Where the states should put casinos and gambling machines.
  • –Preventing and Curing Inflation: Modern Monetary Theory vs. Monetary Sovereignty
  • –Myths about Debt/GDP and Deficit/GDP, while being 24 and believing those myths
  • –Why the Tea Party is wrong and right — and so is Modern Monetary Theory
  • –A reminder about why Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) is wrong about inflation
  • –Why Modern Monetary Theory’s Employer of Last Resort is a bad idea.
  • –The other reason federal income taxes should be eliminated
  • –EU demands that Spain weave the rope for its own hanging.
  • –The perfect punishment for bigotry
  • –Are we still proud to be Americans?
  • –Screw you, soldier. I’ve got mine.
  • –Get this. The employees of the Treasury don’t know why they sell T-securities
  • –So, you want to know why Congress favors taking benefits from the poor and middle classes, even though the poor and middle classes make up the vast majority of voters?
  • –Get big government off our backs. Now, who will pay?
  • –If nation A owes B, and B owes A, and both owe their own citizens, too, is this a debt problem?
  • –Italy tries to grow its economy by taking money from its economy. Huh? U.S. debt hawks do the same.
  • –Gee, all we wanted is to end voter fraud.
  • –Why federal debt is not debt, and federal borrowing is not borrowing
  • –The tax cut that wasn’t and the tax increase that was.
  • –Why it was the Democrats who lost this skirmish
  • –Rich man’s newspaper laments the sad truth of trying to fool the voters
  • –The Republicans face the truth as the devil comes calling
  • –The European Union: The solution for too much debt is to borrow even more
  • –Another day; another columnist paid by the 1% to write nonsense.
  • –Federal Deficits – Net Imports = Net Private Savings
  • –The simple solution to campaign contribution limits
  • –The “Greater Threat” and our survival
  • –The NDAA scandal continues: Now come the lies. Reassuring words to the gullible
  • –Patriots in Congress approve what Osama bin Laden failed to accomplish.
  • –Congress says many people worked more than 50 jobs in just this past year
  • –How the politicians convince you to take money from your pocket and flush it
  • –This Year’s CHUTZPAH! Award Goes to Newt Gingrich.
  • –Fiscal prudence fakery — how the media and politicians collude to screw the 99%
  • –Europe cuts own throat. Angry at Britain for not joining in suicide pact
  • –Saving America by closing the gap: A suggestion for #OWS
  • –Oh, woe! The euro nations blast Britain for not joining them in economic suicide.
  • –OMG! Mark Kirk, a Republican who wishes to protect Americans — even the 99%
  • –Two headlines revealing the pro-rich, anti-middle, anti-poor austerity efforts of the media
  • –Does Barry Ritholz finally get it? Did he “know” it all the time?
  • –Europe formalizes the self-mutilation of the truly insane. Agrees to make economic growth a crime.
  • –The 1% steps up its efforts to brainwash you. Are you falling for it?
  • –Welcome to America, where vassals blindly accept their status and do the dirty work of the lords
  • –Saddest headline of the day
  • –Dick Durbin, Bob Corker et al give a perfect example of why our economy is struggling
  • –Dick Durbin succinctly expresses the basic source of Congressional economic ignorance.
  • –The U.S. states, counties and cities are PIIGS
  • –Is Newt Gingrich a closet Democrat?
  • –Do you want an austere America? Be careful what you wish for
  • –America’s biggest “super committee”: The Supreme Court and conflicts of interest
  • –How the 1% turns the 99% against itself and makes us into dogs
  • –Curing anemia by bleeding the patient. Saving the captain by throwing the passengers overboard.
  • –Most economics is inadvertent fiction. Here’s some intentional fiction.
  • Why are members of the euro zone like lobsters in a pail? A 1-clown news item.
  • –A new group: Brake the Banks
  • –Thank you Russia for helping to save our economy.
  • –See the #OWS bat signal. They believe, sincerely believe, the 1% are screwing the 99%. Do you?
  • –The supercommittee “failed,” thank goodness. Now what?
  • –“Go Big” on deficit reduction. Send in the clowns
  • –The difference between ignorant and stupid. S&P, supercommittee and Chicago Tribune
  • –So you think it couldn’t happen in America: The wages of “law and order”
  • Great news: Government trying to increase taxes by $700 billion.
  • Extra! Read all about it! Economists say spending cuts hurt economy. Oops, no, they help. Wait, no, they hurt. Understand?
  • –What’s another name for 261 crazed fools running amok?
  • –You don’t need to drown. You just need to understand who the sharks are and how to avoid them.
  • –How bleeding the economy grows it, and why sick, old and poor people are a drag
  • –You damn fools
  • –How big is a dollar and how much does it weigh? Money questions you can test on your friends and neighbors.
  • –Want to help America? Take on this one, very easy, empowering task.
  • –The idiot patrol is on the loose, again. Hide your wallet. Pray for America.
  • –A picture of a 3rd world country. Do you recognize it? I don’t.
  • –If logic doesn’t solve federal deficits, might simple algebra help?
  • –Want to stimulate the economy? Then, increase federal debt. Here’s the evidence.
  • –Letter to President Obama with one big question about Social Security and Medicare. Can you answer it?
  • How the President and Congress will fix the lost decade. (Curing anemia by bleeding the patient)
  • –Oh, you want to cure unemployment? Why didn’t you say so? Here’s how:
  • –The selling of science in America. How to make economic facts penetrate closed minds.
  • –Remember Europe? Once important; soon austere.
  • –What would happen if Greece returned to the drachma?
  • –Why don’t the facts penetrate? Why don’t we get it? Why don’t we want to get it?
  • –The New York Times, a model of consistency. Has spread the same economic ignorance for 40 years.
  • –The Big Lie triumphs. Darkness settles over America. The end of the American dream.
  • –Why postage is really, really ignorant
  • –There are two, and only two, long-term solutions for Greece and the other euro nations.
  • –Osama bin Bowles’s plan to destroy America.
  • –The magic of executive orders. How the President circumvents Congress and plays politics with the law
  • –Foolishness across the ocean. Will the UK attempt mass economic suicide?
  • –#OWS is a angry baby. It’s hurting. It doesn’t know why. And it doesn’t know how to stop the pain.
  • –What Spirit Airlines and BrandsMartUSA can teach us about bad government service.
  • –Finally, a solution for Europe. Yah, right.
  • –Debt-hawk solution to rising health care costs: Reduce health care insurance coverage.
  • –Are thoseTea/Republican candidates simply the silliest people, ever? The laughs keep on coming.
  • –Is this the most evil organization in America? You be the judge
  • –Sen. McCain (remember him?) writes to me. Creates run on dunce caps.
  • –Economy continues to suffer the death of a thousand cuts — and everyone cheers.
  • –An open letter to #OWS — or in my geographical case, #Occupy Chicago
  • –Funniest headline of the month: France’s AAA Credit Rating At Risk, Moody’s Warns
  • –Another example of how ignorance of Monetary Sovereignty will diminish your life and the lives of your children and grandchildren
  • –Your Congress at work: Updated: October 14, 2011
  • –Revolution is in the air and our leaders better take it seriously. #Occupy Wall Street is real
  • The biggest economic question of today: Who can answer it?
  • –News trash: The media’s misleading use of data to sow fear and ignorance.
  • –How your friends and neighbors want to cure our anemic economy
  • –Middle- and lower-classes: Guard your wallet. Tea/Republicans at work.
  • –Why the economy is failing and will continue to fail
  • –Congratulations. You have become President of the United States. What is your plan?
  • –Supreme Court predicted once again to vote against America
  • –Why doesn’t President Obama support #Occupy Wall Street?
  • –Remind me again. Why have Americans been dying in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan?
  • –Nine steps to prosperity; a short message to #Occupy Wall Street
  • –What is the relationship between these “unrelated” stories? This is the age of anger.
  • –”Screw you, I’m O.K.” How pseudo-patriotism has run amok
  • –Good news, bad news: IRS budget cut
  • –India announces $35 tablet computer to help lift villagers out of poverty. America continues to sink
  • –The one Big Question in economics: We continually ask the wrong questions so we get the wrong answers
  • –The real twist on “Operation Twist”: A great deal of sound and fury signifying ignorance
  • –You never will know what you have lost. Part II
  • –What is the one thing no one will believe?
  • –Will China help drown Europe?
  • –My strange correspondence with Chicago Tribune’s top executives
  • –Help! This health care fight has me baffled. Do you have the answer?
  • –How economic ignorance benefits America
  • –Will the “Super Committee” actually consider what deficit reduction will do to unemployment?
  • –Here comes the International Monetary Fund, the world’s economic bull in a china shop.
  • –A solution for our economy: Flood all Tea Party homes
  • –Letter to Tony Hunter, president, publisher and CEO of Chicago Tribune Company. Probably fruitless.
  • –They, who caused America’s decline, meet to urge America’s fall
  • –Debt reduction madness: How Congress continues to diminish America
  • –Are we the next Japan? Ask Richard Koo
  • –Tea Party economics explained
  • –How our leaders convince you to support mutually exclusive initiatives, while cutting your own throat
  • –My congressman, Robert Dold, almost but not quite, gets it. Why is this so hard?
  • –The nurses, bless ‘em, don’t get it. Yet another sad result of Tea/Republican teaching
  • Today’s unpatriotic comment, from Boehner
  • –Eleven people who proudly signed a letter testifying to their ignorance
  • –How about socialized banking?
  • –Closing the gap between rich and poor: Eliminate all local taxes
  • –A timely reminder: Here is the cause of recessions and recoveries
  • –The end of the euro as we know it. Greece, Ireland, Portugal, Italy, Spain too.
  • –The next speech a courageous President Obama will give
  • –President Obama’s “American Jobs Act.” What he said; what it means.
  • The Chicago Tribune’s “confidence game” editorial earns 3 dunce caps.
  • –You never will know what you have lost
  • –Another “Obama compromise”: The Tea/Republican version of the Postal Service
  • –Will Obama’s latest mortgage relief plan be a hit or a miss?
  • –Proof that money and brains don’t always go together: Steve Forbes
  • –Formerly great America dwindles. Can’t afford to pay for hurricane/tornado damage and postal service.
  • –Pulitzer winner James B. Stewart writes “Common Sense” column for N.Y. Times — and gets it wrong
  • –Et tu, Yves? Will the real Susan Webber please stand up.
  • –Here is an example of an “Obama compromise”
  • –Uh oh. The Debt/GDP police soon will be on the prowl.
  • –What a dilemma: Republican Senator demands federal spending — for his state.
  • –Obama appoints yet another debt-hawk to lead us to recession and depression
  • –Lesson in double talk: The government is broke. To hell with Joplin and the South.
  • –Hurricane Question of the Day
  • –Might Irene have a positive effect?
  • –Economics isn’t so bad after all
  • –Watch this space to follow the Recession Predictor.
  • –The most shocking statement about the euro
  • –Should banks be public utilities?
  • –From Hoover to Obama; what has been learned? Not much, apparently.
  • –Perryisms: The world according to Rick Perry
  • –I thought he got it. But he still doesn’t get it. OMG, he simply does not get it. Obama is clueless about our economy
  • –As predicted, the euro nations’ boats sink, while their captains drill holes in the hull.
  • –The one simple step that instantly would stimulate the economy and reduce unemployment.
  • –When will we suffer the Tea/Republican/Obama riots in the streets?
  • –A quick lesson: How Economists Lie, Using Graphs
  • –Watch America, our once great nation, decline – as we cut pieces from ourselves, snip by snip by snip.
  • –Which is better for the U.S.: Increased exports or increased federal deficit spending?
  • –Membership in W.A.S.T.E.D. (Wrong Again. Still Talking Economic Drivel)
  • –Is this the single most timely (and important) graph is economics?
  • –What will Obama do now that he has built his own jail?
  • –How to flush your money down the toilet and other newspaper recommendations.
  • –More on (moron) the S&P downgrade of American national credit
  • –S&P downgrades itself
  • –Latest addition to the Idiot Patrol: Sen. Tom Coburn
  • –There is too much money in the economy. The big problem is not recession; it’s too much federal spending.
  • –Fitch joins the idiot patrol
  • –Obama’s secret plan
  • –Again, with Abigail Romaine, perhaps the only broadcaster in America who understands economics.
  • –The stab in the back
  • –A few simple questions that never have been answered
  • –The depression cometh
  • –Today’s ignorant comment, this time from Robert J. Samuelson, Opinion Writer at the Washington Post
  • –When the DINO battles the RINO, the LAWN will get trampled.
  • –The debt clock: A symbol of economic ignorance
  • –What are the greatest threats to our economy?
  • –Welcome to the United States of Lemming
  • –The failure of common sense in economics. How the President and Congress ignore economic facts and play Russian roulette with our lives.
  • Thought for the day. The UPS method of pricing for airlines.
  • –The single, most misunderstood fact in all of economics. It will blow your mind.
  • –Is NPR in league with the Tea Party, or simply clueless?
  • –What are the best recession/depression investments?
  • –Be careful what you wish for, Mr. President.
  • –What is our priority: The recession and joblessness — or inflation?
  • –Ignorance on every side. Et tu Shadow Government Statistics?
  • –A tale of two businesses – a lesson for the future of the American economy
  • –Why there will be a full-blown depression in 2012
  • –Learn the bare fundamentals of Monetary Sovereignty in just five minutes
  • –Why bank lending leads to recessions. A counter-intuitive finding.
  • –Obama joins the Tea Party
  • –S.O.S. Signs of Stupidity. The perfect storm that engulfs us.
  • Coward, fool or traitor to America?
  • –Christine Lagarde is the world’s best choice for managing director of the International Monetary Fund. Oh, really?
  • –The lessons Sweden taught us — misinterpreted.
  • Ron Paul and the gold maniacs. How ignorance trumps fact in our political world.
  • –A true United States of Europe is the best, long term solution
  • –Democrat says budget should be cut more than $2 trillion. As always, no proof offered.
  • –Debt hawks, nose cutters and suicide bombers – How deficit cutting assaults the middle and the poor
  • –Why a dollar bill is not a dollar, and other economic craziness
  • –Still clueless in Chicago. The Chicago Tribune emulates the Cubs
  • A Debt Parable. How ignorance and superstition destroyed our wonderful land
  • –Inflation is up. No, inflation is down. Now do you understand?
  • –Don’t amputate the federal budget; never again amputate a leg
  • –The double dip recession has gone from probable to almost certainty.
  • –The loss of Monetary Sovereignty–How Congress puts us on a path to recession or depression
  • –Why Pakistan and Afghanistan, but not Mexico?
  • –How the poor get screwed. Why deficit reduction increases the gap between rich and poor.
  • Erskine Bowles and Alan Simpson reveal why the nation is in trouble: Them.
  • –Republicans continue to be their own worst enemy, by Harold Meyerson
  • –When will the wise Muslim get out of America?
  • –We already have lost the war. For what exactly are American soldiers giving their lives?
  • –Financial frauds who give exactly the same advice to every client, no matter what the situation.
  • –We never will find a solution, because we’re discussing the wrong problem.
  • –Does unemployment actually stimulate the economy?
  • –How the media, the politicians and the mainstream economists perpetuate ignorance among the populace
  • —Paul Ryan defends his Medicare cuts to Money Magazine — oops, they’re not “cuts;” they’re “reform”
  • –How Congress steals from the states, then destroys the money it’s stolen
  • –The world is coming to an end. This time I really mean it. Trust me.
  • –Can increased federal deficit spending actually prevent inflation?
  • –What would happen if the U.S. sold its gold reserves?
  • –Poor Newt. He dared depart from Tea Nuttiness, and now he has been excommunicated.
  • Another reminder why reducing the federal deficit is national suicide. Your health, your children’s health and your grandchildren’s health are being sacrificed.
  • –Economist says to sell the gold in Fort Knox to pay the debt.
  • –I have been erased!
  • –Does this report from the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget make you angry? Does it make you afraid? It should.
  • –Psychologist wanted.
  • –Who are these people who continually have been wrong, and never right, for 70+ years? Do you believe them now?
  • –The rise and fall of American greatness
  • –Which of these myths do you believe? A test of your knowledge.
  • –Chicago Tribune sets new record for economic ignorance
  • –Latest idiot proposal by the Democratic Party
  • –Latest idiot proposal by the Tea (formerly Republican) Party
  • –If you were President, what would you do about the economy?
  • –All you want to know about federal deficits, in 273 easy words
  • –A most amazing conversation. What unrestrained ego can do to intelligence
  • –Remember David Stockman? Better you should forget David Stockman
  • Should we really be turning food into oil? Do biofuels starve the world?
  • –Why the Democrats’ ignorant plan is better than the Tea/Republicans’ ignorant plan
  • –Chicago Tribune reminds us why our nation is in trouble.
  • –How Monetary Sovereignty differs from Modern Monetary Theory — simplified
  • –Why the federal taxes you pay are useless: How the federal government destroys your tax money.
  • –How to enjoy the debt ceiling debates
  • –Why the federal debt is not the total of federal deficits
  • –Even the President of the United States doesn’t get it
  • –A letter you may wish to write to your political representatives and local media:
  • Here is the latest to join the “Clueless” club
  • –Second thoughts. Election costs and credit card swipe fees: Good or bad?
  • Newsweek magazine details ignorance in America. Are you one of the ignorant? Guess who is.
  • The end of Medicare
  • Is John Mauldin winning the battle with Barry Ritholtz for economic ignorance?
  • What is it that all 500 of America’s most powerful people don’t know?
  • –Thank goodness this guy didn’t get elected.
  • –Who will be at fault for the return to recession?
  • –Why the politicians, the media and even many economists still don’t get it.
  • –Link to 3/19/11 Abby Romaine interview
  • –Senator Kirk, a member of the Tea (formerly “Republican”) Party, displays massive ignorance.
  • –How to fix Medicaid, plus an idea for universal health care.
  • Read this article in Forbes. Don’t ask why; just read it.
  • –The G7′s backwards thinking about the Japanese yen. Save Japan from its friends.
  • –Interview with Abby Romaine on WNZF. Is she the smartest lady on the air?
  • –My predictions for Japan and for the U.S. economists
  • –Why even the GAO is part of the movement for economic ignorance.
  • –What Japan needs now. Hint: It’s not what Michael Shuman suggests.
  • –Charles Krauthammer’s scary misinformation on Social Security
  • –An update on “The conversation Barry Ritholtz wouldn’t publish”
  • –Economic ignorance unquestioned by the media, politicians, mainstream economists and the public. Where is the outrage?
  • –Why Robert J. Samuelson wants to cut Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid.
  • –The conversation Barry Ritholtz wouldn’t publish
  • Are there good deficits and bad deficits?
  • –Ohmigosh. So THAT’s what less government means!!
  • –The debt ceiling, the ultimate expression of Congressional ignorance
  • –Watch, as politicians flush Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security down the drain
  • –Oil hits $100 per barrel. What does this mean for the economy?
  • –Have we come to the end of empiricism in economics?
  • –Isn’t it time for you to get angry?
  • Lest you think I’m alone, read this:
  • Think piece: Can we imagine a future we scarcely can imagine?
  • –Who cares about jobs?
  • –More right wing craziness
  • Taking Big Government outside the box. Separating money creation from money direction. Part II
  • –Taking Big Government outside the box. Separating money creation from money direction.
  • –What federal budget cuts will mean to you, your kids and your grandchildren
  • –How Populist Jim DeMint and USA Today help trash the economy
  • –How not to kill yourself with a defibrillator
  • –How America is destroyed by metaphors
  • –J’accuse mainstream economists
  • –Big government is bad. It takes our freedoms. Let’s eliminate it.
  • –Can you be forced to buy insurance?
  • –Cognitive inconsistency and how it makes us uneducate our children
  • –Extra! Read all about it! World’s Meanest People Get Meaner
  • –Will someone please, please explain Monetary Sovereignty to Stephen Gandel and Joseph Stiglitz. Please.
  • –Religious zealotry, homeopathic medicine, creationism and debt fear: The debt hawks and the vaccine deniers
  • –Economic policy that’s stuck in reverse, by Senator Jeff Sessions
  • –Arizona tries to gut Medicaid, punish the poor. Who is the bad guy?
  • –Advice to Republicans: Here’s how to appeal to voters and win the next election
  • –Radio interview with Abigail Romaine
  • –Am I MMT? Are you?
  • –Our Homeland Security Department at Work
  • –Should we take the government out of energy?
  • –Should the states be able to declare bankruptcy?
  • –Fed profits. You lose.
  • –It isn’t Sarah’s fault.
  • The great semantic misunderstandings of our time: Debt, deficit, fundamentalists, originalists–
  • –Ignorance: Why you will pay more taxes and receive less service in the coming years.
  • –Playing politics with your life, your health and your finances
  • –More “Constitutional” phony baloney from the Tea Party
  • –Are you for immigration reform? What does that mean?
  • –Ron Paul’s brilliant defense of Wikileaks
  • –Juijitsu economics or how to win by making the other guy think he’s winning
  • –When will the economy recover?
  • –What will help the poor? Taxes vs. Spending
  • –News: China must control inflation, exports and GDP growth. But how?
  • –Which Taxes Are Fairest? Which Taxes are Least Fair?
  • –Professor Black and the secret plot to defeat Obama
  • –A personal musing. What is the future of jobs? Do jobs matter?
  • –Democrats eagerly embrace suicide mentality
  • –Initial results from the survey
  • –Take a quick survey about our economy
  • –An “investigative” newspaper comments on the new tax agreement
  • –How to fight inflation and how not to.
  • –Senator Durbin wanders in Fantasyland
  • –Reducing the federal deficit and other forms of national suicide
  • –How the Ignorant Murder the Innocent: Debt-Hysteria Continues to Destroy America
  • –What is the case against Wikileaks?
  • –Read how debt-hysteria destroys American medicine
  • –The amazing ignorance of Sheila C. Bair, Chairman of the FDIC
  • –Ireland demonstrates America’s future, if the debt-hawks have their way
  • –Surprise: Federal deficit growth precedes GDP growth by 1-2 years
  • –Why Osama already has won the war
  • –Recession redux: The EU bailouts. Digging the hole deeper. Lending to deadbeats.
  • –Should federal earmarks be ended?
  • –Another attempt to explain why taxpayers don’t pay for federal spending
  • –What should the U.S. do next? Hunt like a lion
  • –Blind ignorance masquerades as “fiscal prudence”
  • –Letter sent to National Public Radio re: “The U.S. is broke”
  • –Ignorance at work: $14,300,000,000,000: Debt Limit Showdown Looming
  • –Ultimate irony: The debt-hawks create “death panels”
  • –1937 Redux: How our leaders have learned nothing from history
  • –What will the Fed’s $600 billion Treasury purchase accomplish?
  • –Federal savings = the economy’s loss
  • –Will the party of “NO!” become the party of “I don’t know”?
  • –Read how the debt-hawks threaten to destroy Medicare.
  • –The Fed’s $500 billion bond purchase
  • –How to end federal debt and create prosperity in two simple steps
  • –How the Republican strategy won
  • –Which adds to federal debt — federal spending or federal borrowing?
  • –Japan, Ireland, Greece: Facts vs. Mainstream Economists
  • –How to save your struggling company: A simple system.
  • –Here is the financial solution for your state, county and city
  • –Easy money for debt hawks.
  • –How to make $100 million. No kidding
  • –England is doomed; it doesn’t know it is monetarily sovereign
  • –Three problems: The banks, the banks, the banks
  • –Letters to the Chicago Tribune
  • –Elect me and I will build America
  • –Do you know what you want? Deficits vs. exports vs. stronger dollar vs. inflation
  • –The trade deficit myth
  • –Replace the euro
  • –The solution for France and the other Monetarily Non-Sovereign Governements (MNSGs)
  • –“How to Slash the State: 14 ways to dismantle a monstrous government, one program at a time”
  • –Did TARP (Troubled Asset Relief Program) work?
  • –Why the U.S. owns China
  • –How the debt-hawks would “save” Social Security and Medicare
  • –Failing U.S. transportation system will imperil prosperity, report finds
  • –Does China need to export as much as it does?
  • –What will cause the next inflation?
  • –John Mauldin defines “too much debt”
  • –John Mauldin, debt hawk pushing on a string
  • –Bank closings from 2008 through 2010
  • –Warren Mosler interview: What if China stops buying U.S. debt?
  • –The “Pledge to America” Sham
  • –Who are these people who want to continue DADT?
  • –What is the American dream?
  • –The “impossible” cure for stagflation
  • –Debt hawk predicts hyperinflation in 2011
  • –The recovery debate. Ignorance or politics — or both?
  • –Bad economy, so the bigots slide from under the rocks
  • –Subject: Are you people nuts?
  • –How the debt hawks continue to help destroy our nation.
  • –Why I hate affirmative action
  • –A solution for unemployment
  • –Which is more serious: Inflation or deflation?
  • –John Mauldin spreads the old myths
  • –A wonderful book you will enjoy.
  • –Glenn Beck, the traitor
  • –Let’s destroy the food, clothing and shelter of the rich
  • –The end of mainstream economics
  • –Mr. Felix Salmon quotes popular myths
  • –Silly season alert: The 2 “big” election issues
  • –Monetary Sovereignty: The key to understanding economics
  • –Britain’s grand experiment: The debt hawk agenda
  • –How soon will Medicare run out of money?
  • –Quick prediction for the next two years
  • –Why Medicare and Social Security are not “adequately financed”
  • –Debt madness in the media
  • –Talking past each other
  • –There is no wasteful federal spending
  • –America, wake up
  • –The fallacy of taxing the rich
  • –Debt is bad; debt is good. Take your pick.
  • –Four lessons about Congress and our economy
  • –Return the Statue of Liberty
  • –Max Baucus rides to rescue the Constitution
  • –Economic disaster: Congress in agreement
  • –Salary for attending school, III
  • –Salary for attending school: 2nd paper
  • –$1,000 reward
  • –Professor Randall Wray’s comments
  • –Salary for attending school
  • –Talk by James K. Galbraith
  • –Politics vs. people
  • –One step toward long-term economic growth: Government offer free college education
  • –Me and . . .
  • –A partial solution for the gap between rich and poor: Education
  • –Why the slow recovery?
  • –How President Obama’s National bipartisan Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform could destroy America
  • –Some thoughts on closing the financial gap.
  • –Less debt . . . oh, wait. More debt.
  • –What’s so fearsome about a filibuster?
  • –Salvation for Europe?
  • –What the Wall Street Journal editors want
  • –More debt-hawk injuries to America
  • –Japan: Debt/GDP = 218%. So?
  • –BP’s Adventures in Wonderland
  • –I’m angry with the Chicago Tribune
  • –Is Federal money better than other money??
  • –Punish BP or . . . ?
  • – Let’s blame China
  • –Mexico anger high as US Border Patrol kills teen
  • –Anthropomorphic economics disease
  • –How the debt hawks will destroy the U.K.
  • –What is the real Mideast war? A hypothesis.
  • –Israel, return Arab lands!
  • –Taxing banks to pay for bailouts
  • –You have the right to remain silent
  • –Get rid of big government
  • –French bread French fried
  • –License and tax marijuana
  • –Committee For A Responsible Federal Budget
  • –Unelect incumbents
  • –David Malpass: Less money = more money
  • –Giving life to a lie
  • –What can save California?
  • –Is gun control possible?
  • –Undocumented immigrants
  • –Worried about your children and grandchildren paying the federal debt?
  • –Even Paul Volcker doesn’t get it.
  • –A mainstream economist writes about the EU
  • –China buying bonds. Who cares.
  • –Looking for fiction
  • –Xenophobes’ laws
  • –What’s the deal with professional economists?
  • –”The Meteorology of Economics” – Speech at UMKC
  • –Open letter to Pat Widder of the Tribune
  • –Yogurt
  • –If you like gold, you’ll love . . .
  • –Open letter to John Mauldin re. his myths
  • –Words from 2005
  • –Why the crazy stock market fall
  • –The EU and the “hair of the dog”
  • –The federal debt is unsustainable — still?
  • –Isabel Sawhill and the Brookings Institution
  • –Europe and the welfare-entitlement state
  • –GM pays and the innocent cattle “moo.”
  • –Nonsense from the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget
  • –Fiscal Sustainability Teach-In and Conference
  • –Did Goldman Sachs really commit fraud?
  • –What does the Tea Party want? Ask Sarah Palin
  • –Watch Ben Bernanke’s high wire balancing act
  • –Are we inflating our way out of debt?
  • –The old “taxpayers’ money” fib
  • –Please help the Wall Street Journal
  • –Debt Bomb Redux
  • –More worries about China’s money
  • –Why a recession every 5 years?
  • –Ben Bernanke and the popular faith
  • – Government’s gain = economy’s loss
  • –Federal deficit spending doesn’t cause inflation; oil does
  • –Cuts to Medicare vs deficit spending
  • –We hate big government
  • –Republicans fall into Obama trap
  • –Debt “unsustainable” no longer.
  • –Another attempt to explain the positive effect of deficits
  • –Sabotaging health care
  • –Letter from John McCain: 3/22/10
  • –Health care: The tragic misunderstanding
  • –How to cure federal tax loopholes
  • –The bottom line on health care insurance
  • –Why the airlines are sick
  • – All you need to know about the Left and Right
  • –Gold bugs, debt hawks and the EU
  • –Economic myths, false beliefs and fairy tales
  • –Does personal saving stimulate the economy?
  • –Vitamin D: Another bubble?
  • –Why the states are in financial trouble
  • –Three Equivalent Standards: Gold, Euro and Dollar
  • –Jim Bunning and the populist health care position
  • –How not to improve America
  • –Prof. Barro and the cost of federal spending
  • –Et tu, Wall Street Journal?
  • –The Greek tragedy
  • –Danger sign?
  • –Three misunderstood, economic truths
  • –Understanding Federal Debt. Full faith and credit
  • –More “debt bomb” nonsense
  • –Improving health care, Obama style
  • –The End of the Euro
  • –Robin Hood Obama takes from rich and poor
  • –Punish bank executives for being too rich
  • –Why the real estate collapse?
  • –The cost of ignorance
  • –How the federal budget really works
  • –The federal deficit debate
  • –Does your money belong to the government?
  • –Federal Debt: A “ticking time bomb”
  • –The China trade deficit myth
  • –Deficit fears do more damage than deficits
  • –Deficits and interest rates: Another myth
  • -How to eliminate federal debt and save the economy
  • –Federal Debt/GDP– A Useless Ratio
  • -Richard Koo–If you don’t believe me, believe him
  • –Deficits: The Possible vs. the Certain
  • –Fool’s gold
  • -Debt hawks — Economics’ Chicken Littles
  • -Warren Mosler for president
  • -To: Diane Lim Rogers of Concord Coalition
  • -A prediction about stagflation
  • -What triggers recessions and depressions?
  • -When is a recession?
  • -New thinking from the New America Foundation
  • -Peter Schiff and the money-supply myth
  • -Is inflation too much money chasing too few goods?
  • -Open Letter to Maya MacGuineas, President of CRFB
  • -Another reason deficits are necessary
  • -An idea for health care insurance
  • -Learn to love the debt
  • -The debt ceiling illusion
  • -Smoot-Hawley revisited
  • -Social Security bankrupt? Impossible.
  • -Do you believe President Obama is gay ??
  • -The government is our landlord
  • -Health care for undocumented aliens
  • -It isn’t “taxpayers’ money” .. Tax rates through the years
  • –When China will pass the U.S. as the world’s dominant economy
  • –The low interest rate/GDP growth fallacy
  • -Taxing poverty to support health care
  • –Deficits, inflation and hyperinflation
  • -Does taxing the rich help the poor?
  • -Ten Reasons to Eliminate FICA
  • -How to Eliminate All Federal Debt and Interest Payments — if we want to
  • –To understand economics, you must understand Monetary Sovereignty. Most economists and politicians don’t.

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