First off a h/t to a dear fiend, for Crackdown on herd-share farms over certification which is such a classical attack of the FeeMarketeers meets the LibertarianistaIsts and them meets that hope that some how the raw food is gonna save the problem ( Read more... )

Essentially I agree with When The Magic Starts in that there is much that will need to be undone from the failure of the deregulation game that was based upon FeeMarketeeringFundamentalism.

I can only hope that some day americans will actually look at the game in play.

Then maybe ask themselves why was the Glass-Steagall Act already dead when ( Read more... )

Let us start from the premise that fossil fuels are not like renewable products such as fruits, vegetables and other forms of feeMarketeerFundamentalists ( Read more... )

I picked up David Lebedoof's "The Same Man: George Orwell and Evelyn Waugh in love and war" in the discount section at Printer's Inc, because I am an Orwell Fan. The premise is interesting, in that it gives folks an insight into two great writers who were born in 1903. As an Eton instructor noted, one spent his life trying not to be from there, ( Read more... )

Hey kids would this be a bad time to talk about that decade of deficit funding the rich, with a pass up from the mere pleabian tax payers? You know those majikal 'recover from the tech bubble' "stimulouse" thingies, which had never really ever been about creating the requisite level of 'aggregate demand ( Read more... )

I can appreciate that these are hard times, what with no real economic reform, and the economy facing a mere repeat, at greater costs to the tax payers of the vary same folly that fired the liquidity trap of 2007. So the compromise of waving the hand about freddie and fannie mae will of course help folks think as if there was a conversation about ( Read more... )

The piece starts out:My role here is the role of the person who starts the Alcoholics Anonymous meetings.

My name is Brad DeLong.

I am a Rubinite, a Greenspanist, a neoliberal, a neoclassical economist.

I stand here repentant.
( cf What Have We Unlearned from Our Great Recession? )
So while I await ronebofh to get his book report out about why his ( Read more... )

When I first bought Death of the Liberal Class, I joked about the failure to include train schedules and an ROI on the conversion of Bio-Diesel. I wish I still had that level of snark and blithe optimism ( Read more... )

The rational piece is in the pipeline to the editor, but maybe we should close out 2010 with a bit of the old school, pondering how are we gonna get out of all of this alive. Pink's Face Book Page which i picked up on because my friend CB decided that he liked it. For more details there is the wiki entryPink (singer) that will offer an insight into ( Read more... )

The story begins the night before christmas, when all through the house the good children were huddling snug in their beds. Meanwhile, the older children were huddling around the port and coffee and fruitcake, with fear and the looming threat that Saint Nick would soon be there ( Read more... )