Boston: The Unraveling and a Plea for the Healing of Our Society
I find it hard to write about anything after this happened. Boston is a great city I had the pleasure to visit on a field trip in 2006 while I was in school. There was so much life in that city and...
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The Reinhart and Rogoff Errors Discredit the Obama Administration and Austerity
Yes they do. I have heard a statement that bugs me a lot lately and that statement is that this was the go to analysis for the Republicans as if Democrats have never referred to it in any way. I'm here...
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President Obama's Austerity Does Not Make Him a Keynesian
It's really sad it has come to this. There are many people that have jumped to branding President Obama as the second coming of famed economist John Maynard Keynes in what has become a rather sad...
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Denying the Data Today Won't Make President Obama's Austerity Go Away
That's right. Remember my last diary where I did prove without a shadow of a doubt that the austerity that this administration has put forth right now, and in effect right now, does not make this...
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To Those Celebrating Their Proud Ignorance of the President's Austerity
Oh your temerity has turned into outright hilarity, so I can no longer give this kind nonsense any charity. You see, these are issues I go to great lengths to cover for the Daily Kos community. Most...
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John T. Harvey: Austerity Leads To... Austerity!
In the real world and the reality based community, there is talk about austerity from people who understand the nuances of it and macroeconomic accounting identities. They point out the undeniable fact...
View ArticleWhen You Support George W. Bush's Policies, like Obama, I Get to Call You a...
Worse than a Republican; I get to call you a fawning sellout with even less principles than the Republican security soccer moms of 2004 that we all remember before. They really believed back then, and...
View ArticleHistorian Rick Perlstein Uses the Nation to Whine About My Tweet
I have to admit, I was surprised to be notified that Historian Rick Perlstein of Nixonland fame, devoted an entire column in the Nation to two tweets replying to him; one from myself and one from...
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What We Really Should be Yellin About When it Comes to Who Runs the Fed
Effective regulation, and on that note, it is a positive thing that the Summers of our discontent can finally be laid to rest. After all the damage Larry Summers has caused in being one of the...
View ArticlePresident Obama Gave Speaker Boehner the Debt Ceiling to Play With in 2010
And here we are again! It started in 2010. The Bush tax cuts were about to expire. There was leverage to negotiate a debt ceiling raise or to just let them expire. How do I know there was leverage? I...
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Go Ahead, Celebrate — You're Celebrating Failure
Well it seems this continuing debacle every 3 months has ceased, for now. However, I really can't get over this pathetic celebration over the really low bar involved with regard to avoiding what I call...
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Do You Want an Echo Chamber at Daily Kos? Just Admit It.
It appears that a certain segment of this site, from top to bottom, want to redefine the mission of this site for such a purpose. It's pretty clear that a lot of people here share a genuine hatred for...
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