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The CBO Report: Six Things You Can’t Talk About in Washington
Don't talk about jobs, growth, budgeting from percentages, health care, or Europe. After all, we wouldn't want to learn from experience.
Nate Hagens: Things Are Not Going to Be as Easy Over the Next 40 Years
The primary drivers of historical economic growth are no longer available, spelling the end of global growth.
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Ayn Rand: Queen of the Universe
The middle class in America - and through most of the developed world - is at risk of going extinct. u00a0
US Economy “Stuck in the Mud”
Robert Pollin: Last quarter of 2012 had zero growth, wages were lower, unemployment higher as stock market hit record highs.
The Real “Recovery”: Welcome to the Network of Global Corporate Control
Welcome to the “economic recovery,” where the big banks and corporations that created the global economic crisis are doing better than ever before.
Financialization and Unemployment
Whether the power of finance can be brought under more control becomes one of the significant issues, together with other structural and political causes of unemployment under capitalism, when …
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Solve the Real Problems – Poverty Retirement and Health Insecurity – and the Economy Will Recover
Imagine the impact on the economy of 55 million seniors receiving an additional $1,200 each month.
Financial Regulation and Cost Benefit Analysis for Whom?
Gerald Eptsein: Bloomberg News calls for a cost benefit analysis of financial regulations, but the question is, cost benefit for whom?
The American Lockdown State
The US has become a nation not of laws but of legal memos, not of legality but of legalisms.
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Does American Exceptionalism Foster American Decline?
The chauvinistic definition of exceptionalism has become common in the rhetoric of politicians.