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Economy
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In the US, Futile Hopes for Another Presidential Contender
Political pundits have speculated about the possibility of another presidential candidate entering the November race. (Damon Winter / The New York Times) I haven’t written …
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Financial Markets Are Not Faceless, Their Face Is That of the Oligarchy
L’Humanité interviews the author of la Finance imaginaire, anatomie du capitalisme: des “marchés financiers” à l’oligarchie, Arden publishers (Fantasizing about Finance - an Anatomy of Capitalism: “Financial Markets” or …
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Remembering the Lyrical Populism of Woody Guthrie
Where's Woody when we need him? In these times of tinkle-down economics — with the money powers thinking that they're the top dogs and that the rest of us …
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Occupying Corporations: How to Cut Corporate Power
“Corporations are people, my friend.” Mitt Romney at Iowa State Fair(1) Corporations are obviously not people. But Romney is correct in the sense that corporations have hijacked most of …
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The Republican Implosion Myth: How Republicans Are Winning
Fidel Castro dubbed this year’s Republican primary as the “greatest competition of idiocy and ignorance the world has ever seen.” We as a nation gave him that line by …
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Study of Humanities Key to US Economic Success
President Obama recently called for recruiting and training 100,000 new science, math, technology and engineering teachers over the next 10 years. It seems the nation has forgotten the importance …
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In Troubled Europe, Agonizing Options
(Image: CartoonArts International / The New York Times Syndicate) Daniel Davies, an analyst and member of the “Crooked Timber” blogging group, had a very good post published …
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The Privatization of Everything
No society can aspire to democracy unless it maintains an unbreakable connection between its politics and its police powers. Once the populace has no political access to policy …
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High Noon and the West Coast Docks
High Noon is a 1952 morality play about people deciding whether or not to stand up to the forces of corruption and criminality. Scenes from it often come to …
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Thanks to “Tax Notes”
In my post this morning on dynamic scoring and how to turn the United States into something closer to Greece, I requested that the publication Tax Notes bring an …