Links to all posts: 9/7/09 to 7/19/17

Here they are, 1,993 of them:

• You Elect ‘Em; They Own You. YEETOY
• Tangled logic and reaching for excuses: Medicaid version

  

• How you completely can misunderstand Social Security
• Why you and Congress love gerrymandering
• Simple single payer facts and utter nonsense
• The single, most important question in all of economics.
• Who are we who punish the sick, the poor, the less fortunate?
• Did you know, raising interest rates kills economic growth? Nah, it’s a myth
• This article got me so damn angry I could spit. Why Democrats lose elections.
• You live on the edge of insolvency, though you may not realize it.
• Jobs: The all-purpose excuse for feeding the Rich and for anarchy
• Gap Psychology at work. Why reducing crime does not require fighting crime.
• The latest healthcare plan: When meanness meets stupidity
• If you believe the latest lies from the “Campaign to Fix the Debt,” they own you.
• Can there be a “Theory of Everything” in economics?
• Are the Dems willing to learn? What will it take?
• Don’t kid yourself. The cult doesn’t serve you. You serve the cult.
• The AI problem. Do you have the solution? The most powerful machine humans ever have created
• Kansas is nothing like America
• How meanness and zigzaggery jeopardize your lifestyle
• Taking the wrong path won’t get you to the right destination
• Is the House of Representatives obsolete?
• Here we go again: More privatization scam
• The story of the inutile President of the inutile Party
• Watch the Republicans forge their own history
• What happens to a nation when it has lost its morality and its pride?
• When we don’t know what something is, we name it. Why you should care.
• How ignorance of Monetary Sovereignty touches every facet of your life
• Medicare for All: Your one misunderstanding that ruins everything
• If China Can Fund Infrastructure With Its Own Credit, So Can We. Here’s how.
• More fakery, this time from Suderman’s boss.
• Peter Suderman’s twisted logic reveals the real motives of the right-wing
• Euphemisms the rich use to enslave you
• Privatization: Legally stealing your money
• Would you rather have a job or equally-paying unemployment?
• Will the UK do to itself what the EU couldn’t?
• When will reason return to the political discourse?
• Trump’s many problems: He’s not at fault
• Does your computer play?
• The damage caused by a troll who is “dumb on crime”
• What is the difference between an illegal act and a pattern?
• The Meaning of America — now worse
• The almost-too-easy way to grow the economy and narrow the Gap
• Why do we even have a national government, anyway?
• Gap Psychology: Why are you so surprised, America? It is you who allowed this.
• At what point do your leader’s denials and delusions become a problem for you?
• Six examples of how the media brainwash you.
• A parable: The little, fat guy with the BB gun
• Hey, whoever wrote “Trump’s” tax “plan” may be on to something.
• Do you accept our Constitution as the law of our land?
• Robert Reich’s “fake news” on Trump’s tax plan.
• Why do you need an EB (Economic Bonus)?
• Is the UBI (aka EB) even possible in today’s world?
• #Trumpayola at work: Hire American except . . .
• Welcome to #Trumpayola, the new Presidential normal
• Enjoy your ride, sucker!
• The belief trap: How our children are taught “The Big Lie,” tax version
• Donald Trump will give you . . . Lyme disease??
• Does the U.S. Treasury really destroy your tax dollars? The Monopoly® answer.
• Unintentional Brexit humor
• The Republican tax plan
• The only two elements in economics you need understand
• The cost of science denial
• An example of raw bigotry and an important question.
• Objections to Medicare-for-All — and the first, necessary step
• The secret GOP checklist of Presidential requirements. Know anyone?
• America won. Now is our chance to get health care right
• The poor are lazy takers who deserve their poverty
• The ignorance of the oppressed and the treachery of their leaders
• The Big Lie is alive and well and living in DC and the Chicago Tribune
• A solution to the climate change controversy.
• Gap Psychology and The Big Lie: You are low class, and should be treated badly
• Just two quick “fantastic” questions
• RRPP: Reward the Rich; Punish the Poor. The GOP doctrine
• Thank goodness you have someone to protect your children’s future
• The real purpose of the debt ceiling. Again.
• Rush Limbaugh’s health care plan
• The three biggest problems with Trumpcare
• The season of Schadenfreude approaches. Trump version
• Trade War! Oh, woe is US ?
• Healthcare plans: Ignorance and treachery
• The healthcare screwing: You voted for it; you have it
• Why you believe the Big Lie: The Gap Psychology con job
• There is one thing the GOP is doing right, and they even don’t talk about it.
• What is the real reason the Republicans hate Obamacare?
• Why the passion to destroy lives?
• This is your life in Trumpland.
• Donald Trump and I know more than the generals. You do, too.
• Obamacare and the great “states’ rights” con
• What do you call a lie that is constructed from another lie?
• I hate saying “I told you so.” No, actually . . .
• Whither goest the Democrats? What are their goals
• Here we go again. Your test of ignorance repeats on March 16th. What have you learned?
• The one solution to the Obamacare (ACA) problem that neither party talks about
• Ten Steps to Prosperity: Step 9. Federal ownership of all banks
• Crazy rich: The”well-oiled machine.”
• Ten Steps to Prosperity: Step 8: Tax the very rich more (dictatorship warning)
• Ten Steps to Prosperity: Step 7. Increase the standard income tax deduction, annually.
• Ten Steps to Prosperity: Step 6. Eliminate federal taxes on business
• Ten Steps to Prosperity: Step 5: Salary for attending school
• Phony insolvency rears its ugly head, again
• Ten Steps to Prosperity: Step 4: Free education for everyone
• Ten Steps to Prosperity: Step 3: Monthly bonuses for all
• Ten Steps to Prosperity: Step 2. Federally funded Medicare — Parts A, B & D, plus long-term care — for everyone
• What will the Ten Steps to Prosperity Cost?
• The Ten Steps to Prosperity: Step 1. Eliminate FICA
• Sally Yates, American hero. There will be more.
• The myth of the business expert
• Trump is right (!) about the EU. But, is it murder or suicide?
• We are beginning to see the implications of “alternative facts”
• Plenty of money for a wall; not enough for Social Security and Medicare
• Should America have a teenage President?
• Why we can’t afford wholesome food
• Growing fascism and “alternative facts” in America
• Day 1: The war on the 99% begins
• O.K., let’s see how he does
• Free education for all and the student loan scam
• Why writing about economics has become impossible
• Possibly the single most shocking political story in your lifetime
• More proof the MMT’s “Jobs Guarantee” can’t work
• The Looting of America. Why Republicans ride several tigers at once
• Steve Chapman (who?) doesn’t know the difference
• The end of people? Amazon vs. Costco
• As every economist knows, lowering interest rates stimulates business
• Restore American Gory
• Er, ah . . . about that wall, what I really meant was . . .
• At what point did conservatism morph into bigotry?
• I don’t usually do this. Actually, I never have, but . . .
• Why are Democrats such nebbishes?
• On the wisdom of hiring Swamp Creatures to drain The Swamp
• The long-term solution to rampant crime. No, not cracking down on criminals.
• Why is it so hard to understand?
• The Student loan con
• Brownback destroyed Kansas. Same concept would grow the U.S.
• The #1 reason you go into debt to send your child to college. It’s also why Trump won
• The perfect expression of the Big Lie
• President Slime and his little Slimes
• I smell the meat a’cookin’. The new privatization scam.
• Goodbye, Brazil
• It all boils down to just two questions
• Save us from our “friends,” again
• Intelligence and the primary weakness of economics
• The Chicago Tribune lies again.
• Charade: More cuts to Social Security and Medicare
• Who is America’s single most damaging person
• “You bought him; you own him”: Scott Pruitt version
• How does the Big Lie enable the Gap?
• What is the illusion of intelligence?
• Putin’s “long con” of Trump
• The student loan debacle
• I’m sorry, but this is too good to have buried
• The 6 words that could make replacing Obamacare easy.
• How to destroy your excess dollars
• It takes only two things to keep people in chains: Part II, Medicare
• It takes only two things to keep people in chains:
• The Gerrymandering of America
• If Donald Trump wants to fire Janet Yellen, I’m with him
• Bill Black’s take on why the Dems lost
• What will be the purpose of economics in an AI+ world?
• Why has the ACLU recently gained so many members?
• What next? Kristallnacht?
• Bernie Sanders says the right things — but fears the big one
• The one, very simple reason why Hillary lost.
• Now that you have voted, here is what you voted for
• Good comes from bad
• More proof that MMT’s JG is a bad idea
• LOST
• The end of the Supreme Court
• Lies, damned lies, and Treasury Direct Kids
• The hidden connection between cutting your state & local taxes and growing America.
• If you don’t like Medicare for All, read this:
• “That guy is another Trump”
• How America becomes Turkey, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia
• The Presidential Election Campaign fund con job
• Which is worse: You lack money or the federal government lacks money?
• What does it take to convince people of a truth that will benefit them?
• A promise from Donald Trump
• More on why you believe what you believe: Sugar
• Why do Pete Peterson and Paul Volcker collude? There is a reason.
• Why do you believe what you believe? “It’s not my fault.”
• All you ever wanted to (but wish you didn’t need to) know about Donald Trump
• Why Tax Cuts Worked for Russia, But Not Kansas
• My letter to AARP explaining the purpose of FICA
• –Donald Trump’s secret religion
• What if Trump had won
• Why I agree with Donald Trump
• Big data, uncertainty, prediction, and approximations
• The solution to joblessness
• Selling the Big Lie: Nice going, Chicago Tribune
• Have you left no sense of decency?
• Money bail: Another foible of the Gaps
• Just a reminder: The Recession Clock
• The leaders of the police screw the police
• Astounding similarities: Of whom does this remind you? It’s happening now.
• Yet another example of why all banks should be federally owned
• Why all banks should be federally owned
• The Trump/Clinton debate results. Here is what will happen:
• How the rich justify stealing our Social Security
• The economics you don’t know and never think about, but “this shit is for real.”
• What is the character of America?
• O.K. I confess. I favor Clinton over Trump.
• What kind of President will Donald Trump be?
• Voting under red-state rule
• Obamacare and the Big Lie
• Job Openings for Trumpsplainers.
• Follow-up: The end of private banking
• Which is more important to you: Your privacy or your life?
• Should the federal government give Louisiana billions?
• Do you really want to reduce street crime? Really?
• Help me. There must be a word for this.
• Who will be the next President? What does research say?
• The National Enquirer and the Clinton Foundation
• How did the Clinton Foundation get to be a stigma?
• Trump says police need to be tougher
• Is Moody’s a criminal enterprise or just plain ignorant?
• Joe Stiglitz has a solution for the euro
• Bigots of a feather flock together
• A hilarious and sad letter
• Down the dark road. How a nation loses its liberty.
• The queen of bullsh*t
• Today’s new politics explained
• Bexit: The EU PR lie machine grinds away.
• A shameful graph
• Voting for lies is necessary. The dangerous season of hatred
• An easy solution to violent crime
• Trump smarter than mainstream economists? Maybe.
• Three things to remember as you watch Trump, Clinton speeches
• How ignorance will “make America weak, again.”
• How not to run a Brexit
• Trump’s stupid comments of the day
• Commitment denial: A story of cardiologists and economists
• Medicare for Education: The “Free College” promise could come true
• The Committee for Screwing the Middle Classes and the Poor
• More ignorance from Peter Suderman
• The Republican Balanced Budget Amendment
• Time Magazine and the Big Lie in economics
• Why the cashless society? To track and control your life
• The buck stops there —>
• Hotter? Which risk do you prefer
• Why are you required to carry a gun into the Republican convention?
• The bullies and cowards go insane
• You understand The Big Lie. You just don’t know it, yet.
• Two problems, one solution: Gun violence and the Gap
• How to protect your child in shooting-gallery America
• Boo hoo. Crocodile tears for Dallas police. A message to the people of Texas
• Police shootings: Causes and solutions
• John Kass, Chicago Tribune’s gossip columnist says he’s is not a hater; he’s a loather. Huh?
• Donald Trump, a “charitable man”
• Trump University; Trump Institute. The beat goes on.
• The vast, unrecognized power of Monetary Sovereignty: Where do we go from here?
• The myths of “Crowding out”
• A letter to our good friends, the British
• Brexit: How Obama “bailed then failed”
• Why I am so tired of “doing the Semmelweis”
• What will Brexit mean?
• The Daily Bell says: Facts do not matter. Lies are O.K.
• “Running for President is a pretty good gig.” The Trump story
• What we can do about the poor. Yes, there is a solution.
• Perfect example of why the very rich are smarter than us
• Does the American public really wish to reduce gun violence?
• Five partial solutions to gun violence
• Ho hum. Another mass shooting. 50 dead.
• A humorous day in the lives of the crazies — Daily Bell conspiracy edition
• A note of compassion to poor, old Charles Krauthammer
• Trump’s Top 25: Lies, Incompetence and Bigotry
• Here is how you can win $100 million. Really.
• The “Nigerian” gun scam
• How Mitt Romney could win the Presidency
• The human cost of following the rich: The denigration of Socialism
• The human cost of following the rich: Global warming
• The human cost of following the rich: Cutting Social Security
• The Money Trap: Student loans
• Who wants to create a slum?
• TSA and the great privatization scam: Part II
• Who is our Most Dangerous Enemy? And who is to blame?
• Who are the good guys? Who are the bad guys?
• If a man and a woman each act stupidly, which will be President?
• The effect of taxes vs. the purpose of taxes
• The high cost of bigotry in Texas. Well worth it.
• Will our next President be a psychopath?
• Today’s good news and bad news
• NOT ENOUGH GUNS IN CHICAGO?
• How not to be a stupid puppet for the rich
• The minimum wage: Good or bad?
• Reversal of fortune: Liberal Republicans? Conservative Democrats?
• The transgender issue and why Trump won
• The real difference between the 1% and the 99%
• The sure way not to solve any unemployment problem
• Economics in a thousand words
• Nancy Gibbs is ignorant or a liar. Jeff Spross is wise. Pick one.
• What will be the Sanders legacy?
• Time flies and Time (Magazine) Lies
• Problems with immigrants — today is no different
• Who gave you PTSD? (Yes, you do.)
• Who helped Trump and Cruz receive the most votes? You never will guess.
• How facts get in the way of reputation
• Why you soon may demand socialism
• Krugman proves America never will have Medicare.
• The theft machine; makers and takers
• Sanders speaks the truth and lies
• The “let ’em starve” solution to poverty
• The steel fist or the helping hand?
• More on Kasich, the Republican “moderate”
• Is a neutral Supreme Court possible?
• Do you really know John Kasich, the “moderate” Republican?
• Have you ever played Monopoly? You know all you need to understand U.S. finances.
• At our core, do Americans oppose bigotry?
• For once, I agree with right-wing gun nuts
• World’s shortest lists
• Could it be any more stupid than this?
• Another wonderful day on the right
• Do you believe economics’ latest BS explanation — “secular stagnation”?
• “Make America Great, Again:” A con job for the gullible
• Economists debate Bernie. Who cares? No one.
• Bernie Sanders’ litmus test for the Supreme Court
• The dumb and dumber of negative interest rates
• U.S. recession already here?
• Why the House budget committee voted to screw you
• Trump’s appeal and when is a Jew not a Jew?
• Why I hope Trump wins the Republican nomination
• Trump is right — for the wrong reason
• Is there more than one issue in the coming election?
• Chicago Tribune: Propagandizer for the rich.
• What is the purpose of government?
• Sorry, I simply couldn’t resist
• How Bernie Sanders’ critics completely miss the point
• Trump’s mythical health care “plan.”
• Confused myths about the poor and what to do about them.
• Why Bernie will lose
• Must you die? The fight for immortality.
• Two reasons Donald Trump will be the Republican nominee
• What are your emotions and what are you doing about them?
• The obesity / intelligence feedback loop and how to stop it
• How the Rich Use the Big Lie to Cheat You: Chapter V: Taxes
• If you wonder how the Holocaust happened . . .
• When did Justice Scalia visit your house?
• How the Rich Use the Big Lie to Cheat You: Chapter IV: Bank Fraud
• How the Rich Use the Big Lie to Cheat You: Chapter III: Motivation
• From “ticking time bomb” to “looming collapse.”
• Save us from our friends: “Social Security Works.org” edition
• How the Rich Use the Big Lie to Cheat You: Chapter II: The Debt
• How the Rich Use the Big Lie to Cheat You: Chapter I: The Dollar
• Football, Tobacco, Guns and Taxes: What Do They Have in Common?
• It’s only right for your healthcare to be rationed.
• Conversation: The Donald and his mommy
• 100% absolute proof Bernie Sanders should be our next President
• ARE YOU A LOGICAL PERSON?
• The latest twist on global warming
• Single payer: Too good to be true. Is that the problem?
• Trying a social experiment: Rescuing America from the rich
• Trust the private banks? Trust the politicians?
• Donald Trump: A President of whom America can be proud
• A vacuum always sucks — the myths of American security
• The making of poverty
• Solving the gun crime problem — and a question.
• Public vs. private: The contradictory and misguided arguments
• More on CRISPR, “the most important invention”
• The most important invention since the Internet
• When will the next recession arrive?
• Are we the Interim Species?
• Are you “Gap dumb”?
• Right wing perfection
• The most economically destructive question: “Who will pay for it?”
• Student loans and the unforgivable debt
• Ignorant or dishonest? You decide
• America’s #1 gun myth exposed: Part II
• America’s #1 Gun Myth exposed
• The middle class “self-squeeze”
• The “inversion” and the absence of logic
• We shall see. The shames of America
• Pandering to the ignorant
• Hitler redux
• Inequality: Begins with money. Doesn’t end there.
• The real rea$on gun$ are not well controlled
• Guns and fake arguments
• Rubio’s indentured servant plan for college students
• I don’t blame Trump
• Why a finance professor should not teach economics
• What science does economics most closely resemble?
• How to cut the crime rates in America
• Life raft America’s descent into hell
• The compassionate and the cowardly
• –When did the priests make the Constitution obsolete?
• –Well, this didn’t take long
• –How do we provide the Truth, when the populace prefers the Lie?
• –Someone please tell me what this means
• –Republicans agree on the need to end FICA
• –The KISS approach to narrowing the Gap and growing the American economy
• –The qualifications for being the Presidential window and mirror
• –The mystery of my favorite Presidential candidate.
• –Who the heck is voting for this guy?
• –The strange irony of the Gap.
• –We love you. We are working hard to protect you. We are bipartisan. So trust us.
• –The single worst thing a politician can suggest.
• –The other reason why federal deficit spending is absolutely necessary for U.S. growth
• –What do these Republican initiatives have in common?
• –The rising cost of ignorance: Medicare and Social Security version
• –The real reason we have a debt ceiling
• –BENGHABORTION: The next money-wasting, time-wasting pander
• –What is the relationship between morality and economics?
• –Why is this man laughing? What austerity costs you and your family
• –How much money would you take to risk your children’s and grandchildren’s lives?
• –Microevolution, macroevolution, and the stupid party
• –Why Costco always runs a deficit.
• –The magic of partial solutions
• –Why do incompetents run for President, knowing they can’t win?
• –When is a “hole” a “bump”? Budget gamesmanship.
• –Why I don’t trust Meryl Streep, but I’ll vote for her.
• –The coming unnecessary, preventable recession: An exercise in ignorance
• Guns and Abortion: Part II
• –Guns and abortion: No thinking allowed
• –Are you religious? Here is a test:
• –Congress, the media, the economists: The same Big Lie since 1940. What the hell is the problem?
• –The worst possible news for Donald Trump, Ted Cruz and the rest of the Republican Party
• –Are you a REAL Republican?
• –Hillary Clinton’s Drug Plan for recession
• –To Congress: A plague o’ both your houses. Just do your job.
• –Medicare for All: Where do we go from here?
• –If it’s free, you don’t want it. Right? Ask Ed Krayewski
• –What is the definition of “Obamacrime”?
• –The creative guy who sold you the Planned Parenthood scandal myth
• –Does our doublethink about immigration, cause you cognitive dissonance?
• –“The only thing that stops a bad guy . . . “
• –Has “Pro-life” become “Pro-death”?
• –The best article yet re. the Presidential race
• –It’s all about laws. Isn’t it?
• –How to be stupid, deny reality — and be right
• –Message from the rich: The U.S. Treasury is running short of dollars
• –Will we follow the Pied Piper of hatred into hell?
• –Washington Times gun-nut headline
• –Why the markets went cra-a-a-azy
• –Lord, save us from our friends. The left’s plans for Social Security
• –A possible cure for Trumpitis
• –O.K., I was way, way wrong about Paul Krugman
• –Watch this entire video. Is this guy drunk or is the crowd stupid?
• –The recession is coming! The recession is coming! When, exactly?
• –“Perhaps Germany still has some cattle cars you can use.”
• –If Trump is the symptom, what is the disease?
• The human interim species: If we can’t save the pale blue dot, how can we save ourselves?
• –Can anything at all be done about America’s gun violence?
• –One fool down; another stands up. It’s another game of Republican Whac-A-Fool
• –The end of American states?
• –Wa wa wa wa: And this is the guy who wants to be President of the United States???
• –16 Reasons why you have way too much money and deserve to be in the Servant Class
• –Open letter to John Kass re. Planned Parenthood
• Liz tells it like it is: A lesson on morality to an increasingly immoral Party
• –How dare he? Obama moves to stop climate change
• –How the “stinking liars” inadvertently disclosed why the debt is necessary
• –Which stinking liars are stealing your children’s Social Security and Medicare?
• –What is the Scandal with the Pentagon war fund?
• The fundamental flaw in U.S. democracy: No term limits
• –The euro comes to Puerto Rico
• –If you liked the Iraqi war, you’ll love the Iranian war.
• –The moral GPS of politics
• –Do guns really kill people?
• –The cost of ignorance goes up, again: Social Security version
• –The debt snakes slither in again. Don’t listen.
• –Fifteen (of the many) reasons why more people should carry guns.
• –Donald Trump “says what he thinks.” The picture is frightening.
• –Peter Schiff: Wrong in 2009; still wrong.
• –Has the IMF admitted the obvious? Close, but no cigar.
• –Is your favorite candidate a psychopath? How to tell.
• –Why the right wing is like my Toffee.
• –The rape and enslavement of Greece, codified. Who smells the meat a’cooking, and who’s next?
• –Of whom does Donald Trump remind you?
• Opportunity lost: UK and Greek versions. What do they have in common?
• –Will the Greek people finally stop being the geese who lay golden eggs for the rich?
• –Greece, if you do it right, you will be among the most prosperous . . .
• –The vote: Can Greece’s financial calamity be prevented?
• –Hitler in America. Why a bigot can win the Presidency
• –The great Iran nuclear threat lie.
• –How much is your child’s life, health and brain worth?
• –Does this song sound familiar? The history of gay . . . oops, sorry . . . interracial marriage
• –Should SCOTUS be politically neutral or activist?
• -Who will drown in the “bleeding heart,” liberal tide of American decency?
• Democrat Sen. Durbin courageously addresses the bankster issue
• –To which flag is Lindsey Graham referring?
• –What if the NRA was in charge of our international policies?
• Remember Cliven Bundy, the right-wing folk hero? Now, it gets even nuttier.
• –And these guys want to be President of the United States? Is this the best America can do?
• –Causing the end of the Union as we know it — and all for blind hatred. Any sane voices out there? Hello?
• –Virtually everything that happens in economics is engineered by the rich: Kansas version
• –Who is afraid of Greece leaving the euro — and why?
• –Crime rewarded is crime unlimited. The banks and bankers in America.
• –Men: Can’t pee? A simple solution your doctor doesn’t know about.
• –The two most misused, misleading, mistaken words in all of economics: “Taxpayer dollars”
• Talking to a wall: Trying to tell Americans how the rich ruin your lives.
• –Read this declaration and see how it applies to today’s government by the rich.
• –On being thrown off the cliff: Where is the George Washington of Greece?
• –What is the fundamental difference between Greece and the U.S.? What is our excuse?
• –Welcome child, to America, where everyone is frightened, armed and dangerous
• –The Obama hope and dreamland of the Middle East –and one question.
• –Recession, again. So where is all the money?
• –Is being stupid a requirement for being elected President?
• —Are you religious? O.K., break the rules. The misinterpretion of the 1st Amendment
• –Finish this: A federal surplus = a deficit . . .
• –The irony and the hypocrisy of libertarians — flunkies for the rich
• –Is AARP clueless or owned by the rich?
• “Shell” we return to the cowry?
• –Information obsolescence and a revised method for learning the new.
• –When is a rape not a rape?
• –The greatest advertising/marketing campaign of all time.
• What does the EU really want from Greece?
• –You never will know what you have lost: Part V. Bedbugs and bypass operations
• –Your budget brainwashing goes into overdrive
• –The four questions that may have turned on a light — maybe
• Cutters: How they destroy our middle class and depress the nation
• –The solution to the single, most serious problem facing the U.S. economy.
• –Why the war between the police and the public?
• –What does a target look like?
• –Here is your test: What kind of state government do you have? Think.
• As you know, the federal government has run out of dollars. How stupid? Very stupid.
• –Jimmy Carter unknowingly explains the real problem in Gaza — in one sentence
• –Do you, or someone you know, have type 1 diabetes? Read about this miracle:
• –The two worlds: Yours and theirs. Where would you rather live?
• Welcome to Stossel-world and Ritholtz-world: Where the rich do just fine, thank you.
• –The “Fast Track” rape. Lie back and enjoy it.
• –You probably spend too much money on your Medigap policy.
• CUT, CUt, Cut, cut. The Gap grows ever wider.
• –They don’t have to satisfy investors and creditors. They only have to satisfy passengers. So why not?
• –The Detroit solution is the answer for all of America
• –Come visit friendly Texas. We all carry guns here.
• –Just obeying the law and protecting America from foreign criminals
• Climate change: Ask the Koch brothers and the soul of the Republican Party
• –How stupid do they think we are? Your children’s future with Social Security and Medicare
• –Beating on the poor and weak, a favorite, right-wing amusement
• –Rand Paul: Constitutional scholar, morality judge and linguist
• Oh, no! ICE has not destroyed enough families. Send in the “leviathan.”
• –Yet another problem with universal gun ownership and carry
• –The Motley Fool and its writers, add their names to the fools’ club. Buyer beware!
• –The National Rifle Association is not doing what it’s paid to do.
• –Megan, Ramesh and Bloomberg, oh my! Keep your hand on your wallet at all times.
• –Immigration scare tactics revealed
• –How many Christians are there in America?
• –Why compulsory education? Why educate at all? Why not college?
• –The Neville Chamberlain lesson, not learned
• –Jacob Sullum says, “Ted Cruz is Right About Taxes” Really?
• –What could be worse than this Congressional bitter disagreement ?
• –Liberty U. students support Republican Ted Cruz — maybe.
• –The Gap and the myth of the zero-sum game
• –A war is raging. Which side have you chosen?
• –Well that proves it. Immigrants and their kids are killers.
• –Thank you for not calling it the “Budget of Shame,” and thank you for all you do for me.
• –Breakthrough? Is this the biggest, long-term economic news of the new century?
• –Amazing story of how your belly affects your brain
• –An equation you should understand: CRFB + Debt/GDP = BS
• –More BS from Maya MacGuineas et al.
• –Stephanie Kelton vs. Maya MacGuineas: The Big Truth vs. the Big Lie
• –Oh woe! Here we go again: The phony trade-deficit hysteria
• –Medicare drug negotiation: How can something sound so good and be so wrong?
• –Justice Scalia’s perfect response and reasonable interpretation
• –There are fools, damn fools and then there are Libertarians (Hello Megan McArdle)
• –Who are America’s heroes? Are you one? Will you vote for one?
• –How can the tiny .1% rule the 99.9%?
• –Conservatives say: “Cut federal spending” is top priority
• –Guess: Who on the Supreme Court are the “arses” who decide against consumers?
• –Donald Trump for President
• –Open letter to Prof. Allen W. Smith, emeritus, Eastern Illinois University
• –Dumb and dumber: Take this three-question, one-minute IQ test.
• –Thirsty? Dirty? Blame the lying politicians and austerity
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• –How austerity makes you die too young.
• –Greece: The kid who owns the ball, should take it and go home
• –What is your opinion regarding climate change?
• –“50 Shades of Republican” or how to torture and screw the 99%.
• –The phony Greek “stimulus” and how it affects you.
• –The Jobs Guarantee (JG) mouse
• –Do Modern Monetary Theory and Monetary Sovereignty really hate each other?
• –Can you afford to live? Can the federal government afford you to live?
• –Another word on MMT’s Jobs Guarantee and “The Rise Of Bullshit Jobs”
• –Which are most limited in supply: Energy? Water? Food? Money?
• –Canada’s debt-free money. Why not the U.S.?
• –Mr. Suderman, what exactly is the “Welfare State”?
• –The Big Lie about tax reform. One day the eyes will open.
• –Why killing benefits for the disabled is only a small part of the plan for you.
• –Will beat-down Greece become the leader of Europe?
• –No greater disappointment than from those you love
• –What is America’s goal? A “tri-focus” approach. Shrink, grow, maintain.
• –The mystery of right-wing election victories. The answer and the question.
• –Remind me again: Why do they want the Keystone oil pipeline?
• Pin pricks threaten the trial balloon, and the self-destructive American attitude
• –Obama’s tiny trial balloon regarding education. Let the struggle begin.
• –These people step on your back, to lift themselves up. Campaign to fix the debt.
• Sneak attacks: Cut Social Security. Increase the gas tax. Widen the Gap between the rich and the rest
• –Then, now, and soon. Why the Greek tragedy plays out — to become a blessing
• –The entire gold story in just five words
• –Do they now hate Catholics, too?
• –Why are Libertarians incapable of learning economics?
• –It takes a lot to stun me . . . but I’m stunned. And you will be, too. Really.
• –The UK wall of shame. How the poor will suffer, the rich will thrive, the Gap will widen and the economy will stagnate
• –How scientific truth is determined in the right wing world
• –Stephanie Kelton: Bon Voyage and Godspeed
• This is the single biggest problem facing America
• –What is the purpose of the Congressional Budget Office?
• –A short note to college students certain about Palestine/Israel
• –The end of your own free will. How technology can limit your world.
• –20 reasons why I vote Republican
• –Why morality is an economics issue
• –Strange science: How does one brain justify both cruelty and charity?
• –U.K. pols again demand sacrifices from the poor to feed the rich
• –Why doesn’t Israel simply make peace with the Palestinians?
• –She will be the next President of the United States
• –An extreme strategy for the Democratic Party
• Is the descent into brutality our new American normal?
• –The barbarians speak: It wasn’t bad. It worked. We never knew. Anyway, it never happened.
• –The protesters are marching against the wrong guys.
• –Fairness and the new American patriotism
• –Sometimes you only can shake your head in wonderment: Rand Paul version
• –At last: Obama’s Republicans present their immigration reform plan
• –An economics lesson from Janet Yellen and. . . Chris Rock!!
• –A tale of two liars: Terrence Jeffrey & Jacob Lew
• –How much is breathing smog worth to you?
• –Inflation hurts; so why not deflation?
• –So what’s your plan? What’s your point?
• –Our biggest economic threat? Putting a fork into an electric outlet.
• –Who is the “leviathan”?
• –A tale of two nations: Japan and Greece
• –Is the U.S. truly Monetarily Sovereign?
• –Why is American Internet so slow and costly?
• –The federal government soon will run out of dollars!
• –Who says the government isn’t tough on crime?
• –The fortress mentality of American voters, and a “poll tax” solution
• –A brief reference to the Ten Steps: What you need to know when discussing economics
• –America’s majority rushes to the right
• –The “Fort Knox” poll for suckers
• –Who says the Fed has no sense of humor? QE to end
• –How did the Kochs get so rich, and the rest of you get so poor? A primer.
• –More credit agency nuttiness: Ignorance or criminality?
• –The Merger: How science created religion
• –The EU: World’s most evil parent starves her children
• –Really, really increase federal taxes on the rich
• –Why economics is not the only dishonest “science.” Cancer research, too.
• –Supreme Court again demonstrates bias against the poor. A solution.
• –The weird merry-go-round of Treasury bonds and QE
• –Rand Paul’s big idea: Make my billionaires happy.
• –Absolute proof the federal government spends too much
• –GREAT NEWS! The deficit is down. Uh . . . wait a minute!
• –How smart are you citizens of Kentucky? Here’s a test for your spleen.
• Megan McArdle: Ignorance or willful ignorance?
• –Will we learn the economic lessons of Ebola?
• –The ever-increasing disaster of student loans
• –How to eliminate college student loan debt.
• Why I’m proud to be an American
• How to build a more educated, more successful America.
• –Europe’s slow, painful death: Is it murder or suicide?
• –The latest in our series of unending, unwinnable sheep wars
• –The Segarra tapes: Why the Obama administration has not prosecuted even one crooked banker.
• –It isn’t the money; it’s the votes. Naw, it’s the money.
• Fools, damn fools and Durbin/Brown
• –Why the Barack Obama Presidential Library must be in Chicago
• –If you lean conservative, please complete this sentence:
• –Does raising the minimum wage really benefit low-wage workers?
• –Who owns Palestine? The phony crisis.
• The dishonest basis for an unwinnable war, and our children are sent to die
• The only cure for the village in a box
• –The secret to China’s ability to produce goods cheaply
• –How the world will die
• –That other “rich-guy” lie you often hear, but seldom hear about.
• –Two more examples of your brain being washed about taxes and bribery.
• –Absolute proof you will not rise up in anger, no matter how much the rich steal from you.
• –More “Who’da thunk?” Europe’s austerity doesn’t work, either.
• –Japan’s stealth austerity doesn’t work. Who’da thunk?
• –The “inversion” myth: Why 80,000+ people demand poverty.
• The euro cancer grows; the dunce cap award returns
• –Bribery, secrecy and the Big Lie. How each day we lose more of our freedom.
• –The Fed continues to cure our anemia by bleeding us with leeches
• –If you’re poor, the government knows what’s best for you.
• –The vast difference between the real Effect and the supposed Purpose of federal taxation
• –The world is dying despite the single, most powerful invention of human ingenuity
• –It’s hard to remember when one wishes to forget
• The excuse to be cruel to children and to widen the gap: The mythical budget.
• Two fundamentals in the news: Monetary Sovereignty & the Gap
• Debt and inflation: The data is right in front of our eyes. But it’s the wrong data.
• –Does the world need dictators?
• –The news from different eyes
• –At sea with incompetent captains. The miseducation of our elite.
• –Red state disaster. Right wing newspaper blasts Republicans
• –I guess it’s that time again, to pressure big campaign donors
• –The St. Louis: Today’s ignorance or cruel intent
• –Immigration: I couldn’t have said it better, except for two things
• –Why America is ignorant: Laurence Kotlikoff teaches our children
• –Pontius Boehner washes his hands, then paddles the life raft away.
• –The AFL-CIO puzzle adds a new piece: The Alliance for Retired Americans
• –The human cost of lies and ignorance, and what you should do
• –The oldest war that cannot end.
• –Let’s play “Smart, Stupid or Liar?”
• –Praying for your neighbor’s pain
• –Do we owe China too much if China owes us too much?
• –Fortress America. Have these people no souls?
• –What is the purpose of a gold standard?
• –How the rich are able to brainwash the populace
• –The Punishment Party waves the flag and the bible
• –Do you know a “war-on” moron? Part II
• –The slippery slope of religious immorality
• –Take this impartial poll about gun ownership
• –Do you know a “war on” moron?
• –What is our single greatest danger?
• –The one monument we no longer need: Two views on the child immigrant crisis
• –The legacy of our generation
• –All in this one short, simple page: How to know more about economics than your friends.
• –Mystery solved. Why the Republicans actually love Obama.
• –There was a rape in Philadelphia!
• –Welcome to the plutocratic theocracy
• –The hardening of the American head
• –The seeming irony of self interest.
• –It’s official. America is a right-wing, male, Christian country, and “freedom” means captivity.
• –And the voice of compassion is heard in our land. It makes us proud to be Americans
• –President Obama, at long last, have you left no sense of decency?
• –Presenting!! The Great Privatization Scam!
• –Is this the worst federal law of the year: H.R. 2847 / FATCA?
• –Who are the job creators? The best 6-minute explanation, ever!
• –Would you give a child or a fool a loaded gun? You already have.
• –Cut Social Security and unemployment comp or raise taxes? Sure, why not?
• –The BIG LIE, small government and the American banana republic. Who’s next?
• –Is this “news” hilarious, sad or frightening? You decide.
• –Help America. Help yourself. Help the world. Send Elizabeth Warren this Email
• –Why not a “GI Bill” for all Americans?
• –The Republican Party Moves to the Right? Impossible!
• –Proof- positive that investors and Republicans are not humans
• –Who are the frightened little people of the new America?
• –The “Leviathan” liars and fools
• –The GAP takes another life. Who cares? She was poor.
• –David Brat: The religious, patriotic, anti-government, economics professor
• –Virginia: From the frying pan into the fire
• –What is the real pattern behind immigration reform cowardice?
• –Try everything but the solution: ECB cuts deposit rate below zero
• –Three poisons: Lead, coal and money
• –Even the NRA is afraid of PGNs
• –The next recommended campaign issues
• –What global warming?
• –The cause of income inequality
• –The PGN Manifesto by Ben Crystal
• –How are the doctor shortage, the VA hospital scandal, the GAP and the BIG LIE connected?
• –What!!?? You mean raising taxes and cutting spending hurts the economy??
• –Some great American ad/marketing campaigns. The world of make-believe.
• –Why the upper .1% loves student loans and guns
• –Why no guns in Congress?
• –One cynical solution to the widening GAP
• –The BIG LIE and the Highway Trust Fund
• –OMG! I agree with Tim Geithner!! It’s about Mark Kirk.
• –Science has spoken: Your grandchildren are safe. There is no global warming.
• –What is the single most important issue in the coming election?
• –This is your life in the America of guns
• PRIVATIZATION: The Road to Perdition in the United States of Koch
• –TROPHIC CASCADE: How Yellowstone National Park opened my mind
• —-When did the last recession begin and end? You won’t believe this.
• –Will bank criminals actually be prosecuted?
• –Widen THE GAP? See how Australia plans to do it.
• –Which is good news and which is bad news?
• –Latest news stories and their possible outcomes
• –Finally, a voice of reason about guns
• –How acceptance of the Gap makes slaves of us all
• –Surprise! Latest right wing hero turns out to be a lying bigot. So what else is new?
• –The latest gun laws: Ignorance, stupidity, insanity — or something more devious?
• –Great news about killing people
• –Life in a Jobs Guarantee (JG) World
• –The “small government” illusion
• –Moron Guns
• –Why America is losing: Just one cost of austerity
• Bloomberg in dreamland: Our wonderful, declining deficit. It’s all so simple.
• –Note to those economists who refuse to tell the truth
• –Surprise! Every American really does understand the basics of Monetary Sovereignty
• –What makes the American voter so ignorant? Perfect examples
• –Great news! Court says it’s O.K. for you to give a billion dollars to elect and bribe politicians
• –Is this the end, or just the beginning, of money?
• –How one bad legal decision — Part II.
• –Forbes, the magazine for the rich, posts the BIG LIE to widen the gap
• –Did you really think Republicans were the only BIG LIARs?
• –Investors hot for European economies, but where will the euros come from?
• –Canada radio station copies Canada government: Burns dollars.
• –How one bad legal decision can beget an endless series of bad legal decisions.
• –“If you’re poor, stop being poor.” A must-see video.
• –Ritholtz right — but mostly wrong — about QE
• –As usual, the Fed is expected to do its job — and Congress’s job
• –Do you want to see a (usually) reliable recession predictor?
• –Which state won the America’s Got Stupid contest?
• –Entering a Hospital and On Medicare? The One Question You Always Must Ask
• –A 3-sentence parable that explains federal financing
• –Why Americans believe the BIG LIE
• –A graphic of how austerity affects you
• –A truly hilarious article that also makes a point.
• –The right-wing rationale explained: Why you should be screwed
• –Why do you vote for these mean, incompetent jerks — Medicaid version
• –Right-wing irate that the poor may avoid starvation
• –The limit to human progress
• –Knives and muskets? Or machine guns and atomic bombs?
• –What causes hyper-inflation? Weimar Republic, Zimbabwe, Argentina, Venezuela
• –Germany wants Spain and France to remain “bile bears”
• –Bucks Beat Bigots
• –What do you conclude when a bullshit survey makes absolute sense?
• –In case you thought right-wingers were the only liars . . .
• –How charity destroys America, and other right-wingisms. By their own words, they die.
• –Our debt crisis and our endless wars
• –What we pay for
• –How not to market the truth. We knew it all the time.
• –Why has the conservative movement gone to the crazies?
• Even more meaning of America. What is the source? Why does it exist?
• O Canada! What are they doing to you?
• –Are federal taxes destroyed upon receipt? The shorter and longer answers.
• –The economics of chaos. What we know for sure. The value of money (inflation) formula
• –Immigration, the Right way
• –Edward Snowden Nominated For Nobel Peace Prize. The Obama legacy.
• –The JG (Jobs Guarantee) vs the GI (Guaranteed Income) vs the EB (Economic Bonus)
• –The “Extend and Pretend” austerity magic show. How to end debt by borrowing.
• –Protecting your children by destroying their futures
• –Why I love the National Security Agency
• –How long before the Supreme Court makes it legal for you to carry these?
• –Steven Hansen asked me to post this
• –Rick Newman and mental anorexia
• –The wasteful spending myth and The Big Lie
• –With low inflation, verging on deflation, what’s the excuse now?
• –The great European mysteries, solved
• –The Big Lie, choreographed and demonstrated
• –As every right-thinking person knows, there is too much government regulation.
• –The ultra-rich, two-pronged plan to own your world
• –The Chris Christie scandal. It all sounds vaguely familiar
• –Misdirection: How the rich win their war against our democracy
• Poverty statistics: Figures don’t lie, but the Heritage Foundation does
• –Today’s “It’d-be-funny-if-not-so-sad” story: Iraq version
• Britain promises more suicide (but just for the middle and the poor)
• –What is the most serious, life-threatening disease in America and the world?
• –What is nature’s saddest failed experiment?
• –Draft Ben Carson
• –Are you for or against raising the minimum wage? A reverse income tax?
• Bribed politicians? Of course. Bribed media? Sure. But bribed university economists??
• Your children and grandchildren never will know what they have lost
• –If GMO foods scare you, this will really make you nuts.
• What are the limits to our government lying to us citizens?
• –You are watching the slow death of a people. Next?
• Would you like money without government?
• –We keep tilting at windmills, and the windmills are winning.
• –At last: The great Washington compromise.
• –The five little words that doom the American middle class
• The 5 ways to eliminate wasteful federal spending.
• Government spending is good. Government taxing is good. It’s all good.
• –Why do the British enjoy committing economic suicide?
• –How you can make a few million (I’d do it, but I’m too old to start something new.)
• –What do “Divide & Rule,” “Fairness” and “Food Stamps” have in common.
• –Do you feel safer, now?
• –How Poland Became Europe’s Most Dynamic Economy
• –Finding the American dream on welfare and minimum wage
• Corporations are people, but is a corporation a person?
• –When “redistribution” is a dirty word, and when it is not.
• –The real reason for the QEs.
• –What is missing from this article about the Senate’s “nuclear option”
• The suicide bombers of American Society
• –A new Fed chairman, a new myth is born: Optimal Control
• –Why Europe is the future of America. Creating failure from success.
• –Cash cows and bull manure. A perfect doublespeak example of Fannie and Freddie
• Can we save Social Security from those who claim they want to save it?
• –The Gap, the whole Gap and nothing but the Gap . . . so help me . . ..
• Cruelty creep: How the rich pretend compassion while slicing flesh from the poor.
• –What thrilling things happen to federal deficits in the years preceding recessions?
• Blackmail Party: “Play me or I’ll take my ball and go home.”
• –What really will cause the revolution?
• –A Study in Contrasts: A President and a Governor
• –How the American Deficit Inquisition ruins and destroys your life, and . . .
• –Now what will the conservative in liberal’s clothing do?
• Where are the liberals? Where are the economists?
• What is killing Americans?
• –A solution to gun control and the genius of Wayne LaPierre
• John Boehner’s and Ted Cruz’s “good” fight
• –The single reason for the repeated U.S. financial crises
• –The new image of the Republican party
• –Absolute proof the right wing loves blacks, browns and the poor
• –The Recession Clock ticks; the recession draws closer
• AFL-CIO: Stop whining and start learning
• –The first, hilarious Presidential campaign ad for 2016. More surely to follow.
• –The Tea/Republican plan for health care and the economy
• –The hating of America
• –How to have a deficit without a debt, and a debt without a deficit
• –Cruz, Boehner admit the federal “debt” is meaningless
• –The Tea Party has a plan for you.
• –Where have all the economists gone?
• –Loose the dogs of Congress. The Hearings are coming.
• –How Republicans demand lawlessness to support the rich.
• Our “Godfather” system of government in action
• –The federal government needs your money more than you do
• I’m going to prosecute Jamie Dimon.
• –We don’t need no damn regulations
• –Please sir, a dollar to feed my children?
• –Suggestions on how al Quada can destroy America
• –Obama’s phony food fight — and we are the food.
• Quantitative Easing (QE) for Dummies. Really.
• –You destroyed the world and paid a 10 cent fine. You are a big bank.
• –The constitutional solution to gun violence, that scares the hell out of the NRA
• –Thank you for my handy excuse to be cruel and cowardly
• –At last, rational arguments from those opposing gun control
• –Warren Mosler for Fed chairman
• –Why do we bully the poor?
• –More evidence Obama has been bribed
• –Hawks, hippos, employment and the real measure of economic success
• –More of the same — unfortunately
• –The dark, cold heart of the “religious” right.
• –Do You Believe in Magic? Spain does.
• –The private sector myth busted, then, oh no, the public sector myth repeated.
• –The real purpose of federal taxes
• –Right wing cuts your nose to spite Obama’s face
• –Time to do a little war-war.
• if it’s easy, make it difficult. If it’s difficult, make it Obamacare.
• –Ted Cruz’s alternative to Obamacare
• –What of the children? The death of a nation.
• –Fairness, competition and why we despise the poor
• –Hurray, we eliminated Obamacare!! So . . . now what?
• –Welcome to slavery in America. Lincoln never imagined this.
• –Does federal deficit spending lift corporate profitability?
• –A funny (sad?) letter from my Senator, Dick Durbin
• QE: How $1 trillion = $0, and why the stock market tanked
• We’ll get anyone who says we did it. And, we won’t do it again.
• John Kass: “Case of 95-year-old killed by cops, demands justice”
• Euro-cancer: Remission, delusion or long-term plan?
• –Warren Buffett’s brilliant comments on the corporate tax.
• –The Recession Clock
• –Obama: Edward Snowden is a stinkin’ traitor and should be hung . . . er . . . ah . . . I said what?
• –naked capitalism blog almost, but not quite, sees the light about the euro
• –The psychological basis for all economics.
• -How to fail by succeeding — anti-abortion version
• –How the International Monetary Fund saved Spain
• –Australia, you cannot beat America for the title
• –Beware of Obama bearing “Grand Bargains.” The big lie that destroys America.
• Why the economy grows when the stimulus shrinks
• –Will this save Obamacare? Will it panic Obama?
• –Obama: Lift the middle class by raising taxes and cutting social benefits
• –Paranoia: First read this; then read this.
• –I just thought you should know. Lunch really can be free.
• Tax “expenditures,” “broadening” the base, and other lies to widen the gap
• –My humble apologies to Larry Summers. Or not.
• Republicans to Americans: Love me. If I can’t have you, nobody will. Anyway, I love a rich woman.
• –Why Detroit and Jonathan Tobin both are bankrupt
• –The Republican nightmare is only beginning
• –OMG! Please Say It Isn’t True. Not Sleepy Summers, Again!!
• –How the rich have turned the rest of us into docile draft animals
• –How Greece will grow its economy. Remarkable new plan: An alms bowl.
• —-OECD’s unveils its plan to grow economies: Suppress business
• –Wall Street exec. No evidence for criminal charges. Surprised?
• –The crazy solution to the pension problems of businesses and local governments: Social Security Pension for All
• –What do we fix first – the environment or the economy?
• Why student loans are needless and harmful. The terrible Oregon mistake.
• S&P admits its claims of objectivity and independence are “puffery.”
• –You are white. A black man just followed, shot and killed your unarmed, teen-aged child.
• On the good people of the religious right
• –And this guy wants to be President? The Rubio cube
• –You’re having the wrong discussion about gay marriage
• –Rules are for fools. Trust me.
• –Do you trust the government, completely? Apparently, you do.
• –Chief Justice Roberts, extremely right and extremely wrong. The South has changed.
• –Another writer who thinks China is like your local business
• –The militaristic madness of the cowardly right in fortress America
• –The arrogance of our vicious guard dogs grows
• –Why is the NSA teaching your kids to be spies?
• –How do we keep vicious guard dogs from eating our children?
• –Multi-level irony: The endless cycle of self mutilation by the religious right wing
• –France announces why it will abandon the euro (but doesn’t yet know it)
• Graphic proof: How the biggest banks caused the recession. Bribery works.
• What do Greece and Chicago have in common? Yes, that. But what else?
• –TB. It’s back. It’s worse. Your vaccination may not save you. Who’s doing anything about it?
• –What is the difference between bank fraud and austerity?
• –What next? Recession or recovery? Here’s the clue:
• How to build a dictatorship with the approval of the people
• Which traitors monitor your every move? Hey, everybody’s doing it.
• What the heck is a “meme” and why should you care?
• –This Week in Crazy. Why I love Michele Bachmann
• –Finally: The NRA proposes a solution to gun violence
• Austerity anger in Brazil: The BIG LIE of entitlement turns people into flies
• –How one of the best bills in history — H.R. 676, Medicare for All — is spoiled
• Police state: Which vital secret did Edward Snowden reveal? PART II
• –You didn’t jail me then, and you won’t jail me now, so I guess it’s all right
• –What the heck is it with Tea Party Republicans and rape?
• Presidential bribery: An example
• Why is Rep. Steve King so frightened that he has to hide in his office and beg for a guard at his door?
• –These graphs predict the future. What do they tell you?
• Police state: Which vital secret did Edward Snowden reveal?
• –Sure, Let Freedom Ring. But, Who Stole Our Bell?
• –Is Obama protecting us from snakes or walling us in?
• –I admire the Daily Bell and its publisher, Anthony Wile, but why did he publish such idiocy?
• –Government/media disinformation. You won’t learn this from your morning paper.
• –What is the fundamental difference between Republicans and Democrats, and what can be done about it?
• –More on the Republican plan to attract voters
• –The Republican plan to win the election and save America
• How AARP helps prevent Medicare for Everyone
• Freedom dies while leeches still cannot cure anemia.
• –Political secret: How the Republicans really do cooperate with the Democrats
• –How to bribe the President, in 3 easy steps.
• –Are poor people really as stupid as they vote? PART II
• –Apparently they didn’t contribute enough to the Obama campaign
• –Are poor people really as stupid as they vote? PART I
• –Why the cloud is is not the future. A return to face-to-face roots
• 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?
• –GDP formula: 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?
• –Ten 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.