- It’s unanimous.
- Social Security: How you are being conned
- How we can prevent recessions and depressions
- How you can change the world with just two words
- Hatriotism: America uber alles
- When economics loses its importance
- Mitigating America’s inequality problem: Progressive Voting.
- Why do they want to make you angry at the wrong thing?
- ” . . . some of the roughest people you’ve ever seen, people that look like they should be fighting for the UFC.”
- The best way to defend the devil
- Mr. President, is it immigrants or is it drugs? Make up your mind.
- What is Trump’s seemingly unshakable appeal to his base?
- The suckers love being lied to. There’s one born every minute.
- How Trump has been “a great unifier for our country”
- The full text of Adam Schiff’s great speech before the House Intelligence Committee
- Trump appointee, Fed Chair Jerome Powell, recommends austerity
- Translating the absurd. Does having less money make the nation wealthier?
- Irony of ironies: How two Johns saved the Republican Party
- Cowardice and cruelty in the White House: “Get ’em out and keep ’em out”
- If you lie often enough . . .
- The adventures of Don the Con
- SOCIALISM! The Green New Deal socialism monster under your bed
- Medicare for All: The real stumbling block
- What is DARVO, and how does it apply to Trump?
- Translating a letter from a debt nut
- Inflation: The causes and cures
- FICA: The trillion dollar millstone around the neck of the American economy
- Good news and bad news for the economy
- Yet another economics writer who doesn’t understand the fundamentals.
- Economic Bonus (EB) and the comparative morals of two nations
- Why cut the state tax deduction?
- Finally, Mexico’s check to pay for the Wall
- Warren Buffett finally begins to get it. OMG!
- “We can’t pay for it.” Did you fall for it?
- Student debt: The intentional crisis.
- The Social Security screwing. Save us from our friends.
- Duck! The sky is falling and the “debt” is rising!
- Should the minimum wage be lowered?
- Pete Peterson foundation, your center for economic ignorance, speaks again.
- On tying your shoes together before the race
- How does the federal government “pay for” a big federal tax cut?
- How Trump got outfoxed and conned by Foxconn
- The vote is unanimous
- Does the CRFB believe if you tell a lie often enough, it becomes the truth?
- What is the word for this?
- That didn’t take long: More debt-related idiocy
- It is 2019, and the phony federal debt “time bomb” still is ticking.
- If you could provide free, comprehensive healthcare to everyone . . .
- Outstanding article from The Week Magazine
- Was the Revolutionary War a waste of time?
- Is someone stealing from your organization? The 3 simple rules of stealing
- The best way to destroy a good plan is to implement it poorly.
- The “national emergency.”
- Is this good news or bad news for JPMorgan Chase?
- Now it’s the Dem’s turn to act stupidly.
- More scare nonsense from the CRFB.
- What is the difference between socialized medicine and true Medicare for all?
- Predicting Trump, and words for the religious right
- The real reasons why Trump’s incessant lying works so well.
- The Trump/Putin collaboration
- Excerpts from Maya MacGuineas completely wrong testimony to Congress
- Tariffs vs. spending
- Questions for the Supreme Court — and for you.
- America lost
- More on tariffs. Moron tariffs
- A debt question from Quora, asked and answered
- Questions about the trade deficit illusion. Do we even have a trade deficit?
- Finally, a faint ray of hope about the federal deficit
- Climate change: Two articles.
- The tariff nose-cutting, pissing contest
- Who are these men?
- The biased hypocrite twist
- This is what I do when I’m about to tell a lie.
- AARP spreads the usual Social Security myths
- Why does Trump get away with THIS?
- Why does Trump get away with lying?
- About not using our Monetary Sovereignty: Postal edition
- The “myth” of Monetary Sovereignty
- Self-immolation by the Dems
- The debt lies just keep on coming.
- Are your children important enough to you?
- Do you own a gun? Are you innocent?
- The fundamental truth about guns
- You will get what you voted for
- Sorry for the hiatus. The Trump recession is coming
- The great “bad” news and the bad “great” news. The boy who cried “wolf”!
- The stunning differences between MMT and MS
- Concern about a fetus; no concern about the entire human race?
- How the MMT “Jobs Guarantee” ignores humanity.
- The FBI investigates Kavanaugh
- No kidding: Trump says the world will end by 2100, so no use trying to save it.
- That ol’ debt crisis, it just keeps loomin’, it keeps on loomin’ along.
- Ford-Kavanaugh. Who’s lying? Two easy ways to tell.
- Do immigrant children take money from our children?
- Trump’s Larry Kudlow: The Social Security killer. Are you outraged?
- “Good comes from bad,” Trump version
- Our counterfeit reality
- Black is white. Up is down. Income is outgo.
- Serena Williams and the “f” word
- Cruelty to children; your government’s official policy
- MMT’s “Jobs Guarantee”: The final nail in the coffin of this naive, foolish program
- Do you believe the single worst lie in the entire spectrum of government/media lies?
- The “law and order” party objects to illegality — by brown-skinned people.
- Ten answers that are contrary to popular wisdom
- Who will speak for the Republican Party?
- The doofus science
- Free will. Why you don’t have it.
- Who is the “crazed, crying, lowlife dog”?
- Perhaps it isn’t Trump’s fault, after all. Free Will or Inevitability.
- Another day of your life under Trump — August 10, 2018 edition.
- The 28 words that define Trump and his administration
- A day of your life under Trump
- The fake “debt time-bomb,” still ticking after 78 years
- The shame and horror of America
- A false defense of income inequality
- The great “socialism” fakeout
- Absolute proof that H.L. Mencken was right — in 3 articles.
- What is the greatest threat to America? We teeter on the edge.
- The real reason Putin elected Trump
- Kenahora: Why there is no “business cycle”
- As I told you, two years ago . . .
- The fake trade and NATO wars
- What can America do about a President who is a traitor?
- A new idea about U.S. border protection
- Do you know more than a university economist?
- Translating the code in a news article
- Law without compassion is tyranny
- God Bless America
- The disaster that is named “Cruelty”
- How you can help protect Medicare and Social Security
- Sessions defends it but Trump says it’s Democrats’ fault.
- How false economic ideas are disseminated: Terry Savage edition
- The final solution to the immigration problem. Torture the Children.
- When ego meets ignorance: Who pays for tariffs? You do.
- Who says Trump doesn’t have a plan?
- Fake federal trust funds and fake concerns
- That horrible, terrible, frightening trade deficit
- Why the Democrats need new leadership
- I could not help writing this article, and you cannot help reading it.
- Are you paying for Trump’s tariffs?
- The end of social security?
- Enough already, with the Debt/GDP ratio
- *The secret of marketing. How the Democrats again will blow a 20-point lead with only 1 second remaining
- *The Job Guarantee and the “dignity of work”
- Message to America: Torture the Children
- Evidence anti-poverty programs work. So why not?
- What is the real purpose of money? Gap Psychology and fairness. You may never have thought of it this way.
- One more reason why the MMT Jobs Guarantee is a con job
- The MMT Jobs Guarantee con job
- No need for you to visit Hungary
- The really, really, really simple arguments for Monetary Sovereignty
- Macron spoke. The contrast is stunning.
- When does a dollar become a dollar? The federal black box.
- Great News! Wells Fargo to pay $1B penalty . . . uh, wait . . .
- When should a nation buy or sell gold?
- Lie with the pig. Embrace the pig. Muddy like the pig.
- A perfect example of deception — by ignorance or by intent?
- The CRFB myth machine keeps on rolling
- The debt “bomb” and Rachel Maddow. Not you too? Say it isn’t so
- The persistence of myths: The federal “debt” myth
- As we march toward a “Terminator” world
- The great trade-deficit hoax
- How does Gap Psychology affect you?
- Interest rates going up: Should you be concerned?
- Credentials: The perfect excuse for a bad hiring decision.
- Gap Psychology is everywhere in your life
- In the World of President Bullfrog
- What is the complex relationship among inflation, deficits, interest rates, oil prices, tax cuts, and GDP?
- How can something be frightening, infuriating, and hilarious all at once?
- Yet another article that relies on you being ignorant about federal finances and Social Security
- Ignore the most misleading words in economics and the reasons for Trump’s import duties.
- Liberals, conservatives and gold bugs talking past each other.
- America’s long-term care. Suffer in illness, then die early in poverty
- The Power of the Partial Solution
- The damn fools and greedy bastards who run America
- We all are doomed — again. What will it take for us to understand?
- News!! Trump does something right (but he doesn’t know it).
- Parental leave: A good idea. Congress: First ignore, then screw up.
- Good is bad. Up is down. Other “truths” the authorities are telling you
- When all life is interim, what next? What is “The Plan”?
- Your Social Security and Medicare will be cut. You’ve been warned.
- Fake News comes at us from all sides
- Ignorance or Treachery?
- Treating the 99% like dogs: The “crumb” theory.”
- A visit to the Holocaust museum through the golden door.
- The monster conspiracy of deceit in Washinton. What you can do.
- On making America great, again
- Why do you believe what you believe?
- Regarding the economy, what is the Fed’s most important job?
- What will cause the end of the bull market
- Why you should care abut this question: “Should Amazon’s postal rates be increased?”
- Slowly the noose tightens on us
- Time for a laugh
- Big Lie on display: Jack Lew, a “broke” America, and the “ticking time bomb.”
- Yes, there is a simple, straightforward way to reduce violent crime. Really.
- Federal debt is too high; no it’s not; oops, yes it is . . . uh, wait.
- Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis admits federal “debt” is not a real problem
- Voting for the GOP? You either are rich or a fool – or both. No exceptions.
- Quora question about Congressional will
- How to cut the fake “national debt”
- What happens when Gap Psychology dominates Decency?
- The real cost of Trump’s anti-migrant America
- Gun-related violence: A partial solution.
- “Lügenpresse”: Hitler’s “fake news.” We’re making the same mistake, again.
- Get the best of President Bannon
- Economics and a tin foil hat
- Why Trickle-up Economics?
- Would you have predicted this?
- Two flaws in tax cut debate: Deficit reduction & trickle-down economics
- My split feelings about the GOP tax “cut” plans.
- One simple tax cut to grow the economy & shrink the rich/poor Gap
- The secret of Trump’s 1/3
- What is the single most important issue in the GOP tax bills?
- We are diminished, losing right before our eyes
- I want more $ for the military; less $ for you: Leon Panetta
- It’s a “chump-or-brains” decision. Which are you?
- Why I agree (gasp!) with Trump and the GOP — almost.
- Why Does the Euro Area Have Such Low Growth and High Unemployment?
- Why do you pay to visit a national park?
- The two sides of the gun story: Facts vs. fiction
- Did you buy your car, or build it? America’s tolerance for ignorance.
- Coming soon to your life: The Dictator App
- The tax BS just keeps on a’comin.’ There will be more.
- What do we do when the enemy is in our ranks? The Jeffrey Sachs story.
- More tax BS raining down on your head
- Examples of CNBC, Reuters, et al shoveling BS on your head. It’s Hollywood.
- O.K., debt Henny Pennys, where’s the inflation? An irony disclosed.
- Tax & healthcare plans designed to bilk you. (Thank you suckers, for your generosity)
- The exact date the world will end
- GOP says, “Deficit spending grows the economy, so cut deficit spending.” Huh?
- I’m so sick of the Democrats I could puke
- Bad news for MMT’s Job Guarantee
- Trump wants to force poor women to have more babies. That’s the plan.
- The nine politicians in black robes
- Actions matter. How America is losing.
- Three facts about the GOP tax “reform” package
- No, it isn’t “the economy, stupid.” It’s another issue, and you know what it is
- How applying leeches cures anemia and other Libertarian myths.
- Have you heard of the New Democracy Party?
- GOP: Cut spending? Add spending? Cut deficits? Add deficits? Increase debt? Cut debt? All of the above. None of the above.
- Who put the “con” in Wisconsin? Foxconn, that’s who.
- The Sign: A bit of black humor in a bleak year.
- OMG! Another wrong, wrong, wrong message to you about Medicare.
- Even Maya MacGuineas admits (sort of) debt ceiling is a hoax
- Warning: Congress and the President might do something intelligent! Nah!
- A concern about “Medicare for All”
- How our friends hurt us more than our enemies can
- Schadenfreude and the deportation of the American soul. The storm is coming
- Make America compassionate, again
- What is the motive to ruin America?
- A note to my friends on the right
- The tax “reform” Trojan horse. A sneak attack on social benefits
- Evaluating a lie; Harm vs. benefit
- If this doesn’t make you angry, what will? The global warming excuses.
- A few questions from the politicians of Texas and Louisiana
- Real Americans vs. fake Americans
- Oil prices, deficits, inflation, the Fed and baking a cake
- Presidential health?
- What is the real purpose of the “debt ceiling”?
- Another resignation from the Trump cult
- Taking credit for what you didn’t do.
- Evaluating lies: Harm vs. benefits
- The great lie in the 1st Amendment
- What controls inflation? What stimulates the economy?
- Why are you surprised? The moral abomination.
- Do you deserve to be a desperate, low-wage worker? Protest. Learn. Vote.
- You are on your way to living in a jail of your own making.
- If you accept your daily serving of BS, you will continue to be fed BS.
- In our society, are you a self-reliant person?
- Fifty lies you have been told about our economy. Do you believe any?
- A very short question to you who still support Donald Trump
- Do you know what “unsustainable” means? If not, it’s costing you money.
- Hurting by fixing: Health care version
- The American disgrace: The sabotage of health care.
- What becomes of a nation when lies and ignorance rule?
- You have no idea what the Department of Energy does. The imminent threats facing America.
- Focus on the non-problems; lose the election
- What the “Big Lie” costs you every day of your life.
- What is the fundamental motive for everything in politics?
- Why winning teams fill stadiums
- Links to all posts: 9/7/09 to 7/19/17
- 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: Hitler in America. 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 “unsustainable” federal debt lie.
- –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/Muslim lands!
- –Taxing banks to pay for bailouts
- –You have the right to remain silent
- –Get rid of big government
- –French bread French fried
- –License and tax marijuana
- –Committee For A Responsible Federal Budget
- –Unelect incumbents
- –David Malpass: Less money = more money
- –Giving life to a lie
- –What can save California?
- –Is gun control possible?
- –Undocumented immigrants
- –Worried about your children and grandchildren paying the federal debt?
- –Even Paul Volcker doesn’t get it.
- –A mainstream economist writes about the EU
- –China buying bonds. Who cares.
- –Looking for fiction
- –Xenophobes’ laws
- –What’s the deal with professional economists?
- –“The Meteorology of Economics” – Speech at UMKC
- –Open letter to Pat Widder of the Tribune
- –Yogurt
- –If you like gold, you’ll love . . .
- –Open letter to John Mauldin re. his myths
- –Words from 2005
- –Why the crazy stock market fall
- –The EU and the “hair of the dog”
- –The federal debt is unsustainable — still?
- –Isabel Sawhill and the Brookings Institution
- –Europe and the welfare-entitlement state
- –GM pays and the innocent cattle “moo.”
- –Nonsense from the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget
- –Fiscal Sustainability Teach-In and Conference
- –Did Goldman Sachs really commit fraud?
- –What does the Tea Party want? Ask Sarah Palin
- –Watch Ben Bernanke’s high wire balancing act
- –Are we inflating our way out of debt?
- –The old “taxpayers’ money” fib
- –Please help the Wall Street Journal
- –Debt Bomb Redux
- –More worries about China’s money
- –Why a recession every 5 years?
- –Ben Bernanke and the popular faith
- — Government’s gain = economy’s loss
- –Federal deficit spending doesn’t cause inflation; oil does
- –Cuts to Medicare vs deficit spending
- –We hate big government
- –Republicans fall into Obama trap
- –Debt “unsustainable” no longer.
- –Another attempt to explain the positive effect of deficits
- –Sabotaging health care
- –Letter from John McCain: 3/22/10
- –Health care: The tragic misunderstanding
- –How to cure federal tax loopholes
- –The bottom line on health care insurance
- –Why the airlines are sick
- — All you need to know about the Left and Right
- –Gold bugs, debt hawks and the EU
- –Economic myths, false beliefs and fairy tales
- –Does personal saving stimulate the economy?
- –Vitamin D: Another bubble?
- –Why the states are in financial trouble
- –Three Equivalent Standards: Gold, Euro and Dollar
- –Jim Bunning and the populist health care position
- –How not to improve America
- –Prof. Barro and the cost of federal spending
- –Et tu, Wall Street Journal?
- –The Greek tragedy
- –Danger sign?
- –Three misunderstood, economic truths
- –Understanding Federal Debt. Full Faith and Credit
- –More “debt bomb” nonsense
- –Improving health care, Obama style
- –The End of the Euro
- –Robin Hood Obama takes from rich and poor
- –Punish bank executives for being too rich
- –Why the real estate collapse?
- –The cost of ignorance
- –How the federal budget really works
- –The federal deficit debate
- –Does your money belong to the government?
- –Federal Debt: A “ticking time bomb”
- –The China trade deficit myth
- –Deficit fears do more damage than deficits
- –Deficits and interest rates: Another myth
- -How to eliminate federal debt and save the economy
- –Federal Debt/GDP– A Useless Ratio
- -Richard Koo–If you don’t believe me, believe him
- –Deficits: The Possible vs. the Certain
- –Fool’s gold
- -Debt hawks — Economics’ Chicken Littles
- -Warren Mosler for president
- -To: Diane Lim Rogers of Concord Coalition
- -A prediction about stagflation
- -What triggers recessions and depressions?
- -When is a recession?
- -New thinking from the New America Foundation
- -Peter Schiff and the money-supply myth
- -Is inflation too much money chasing too few goods?
- -Open Letter to Maya MacGuineas, President of CRFB
- -Another reason deficits are necessary
- -An idea for health care insurance
- -Learn to love the debt
- -The debt ceiling illusion
- -Smoot-Hawley revisited
- -Social Security bankrupt? Impossible.
- -Do you believe President Obama is gay ??
- -The government is our landlord
- -Health care for undocumented aliens
- -It isn’t “taxpayers’ money” .. Tax rates through the years
- –When China will pass the U.S. as the world’s dominant economy
- –The low interest rate/GDP growth fallacy
- -Taxing poverty to support health care
- –Deficits, inflation and hyperinflation
- -Does taxing the rich help the poor?
- -Ten Reasons to Eliminate FICA
- -How to Eliminate All Federal Debt and Interest Payments — if we want to
- –To understand economics, you must understand Monetary Sovereignty. Most economists and politicians don’t.
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John B. Lounsbury Ph.D. CFP
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Thanks. Twenty-two hundred posts. Whew!
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Good for you Rodger! You’ve been an oasis in a desert of economic drudgery. Congrats for keeping it real!!
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