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- –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 Why JG (formerly ELR) is obsolete.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.
