Economists: Wrong Again
Many economists are advocating aggressive spend-and-borrow policies to revive the financial crisis-hit U.S. economy that reflect an astonishing degree of naïveté and ivory tower hubris.
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The President, as he dithers on how to get in a war that he should be out of, has called a White House summit on jobs to dither about how to stay out of the Trade War that we ought to be in.
Paul Krugman's Advice for Obama Job Summit
In an exclusive interview about President Obama's recently announced White House Job Summit, Paul Krugman was forceful in his view that "the jobs summit cannot be an empty exercise."
The Recession, President Obama and The Future. Do ideas matter?
Recently, the Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, penned an article bemoaning the greed of bankers and hatred of politicians. Indeed, it has been a wid...
Top-Down Blowback; The GOP Discovers That the Grassroots Bites Back
Limbaugh, Beck and Palin tap the energy and emotions of the masses and flame their biases and bigotry. The web and the media have changed the rules. The grassroots are connected like never before.
Sparking a Populist Revolt Against the Billionaire Bailout Society
What can we do in the face of so much wealth, so much lobbying power and so much weakness on the part of so many political leaders?
Missing the SuperFreaking Point (and Ignoring the Business Case for Green)
The authors of SuperFreakonomics fail to mention that the process of shifting to a low-carbon economy has enormous upsides completely aside from the benefits to climate balance.
Why Growing Income Inequality Is Bad for America
The CEO of the average company in the S&P Index makes $10.5 million. That means that on the first workday of the year, he (sometimes she) has made more than the minimum wage workers in his company will make all year.
Krugman Is Wrong: Why China Won't Revalue
With China now accounting for nearly $1 trillion of American debt, the U.S. can't simply insist that it do something about its currency and expect action. Geithner has been right in not publicly calling out China.
Palin vs. Krugman on the Dollar -- Who Is Right?
A falling, or "weak," dollar is great for American manufacturers. Conservatives, though, are trying to use the complexities of the relative value of the dollar in currency markets as an anti-Obama political issue.
The Big Dollar Bustout ... Is Too Big To Fail Still an Option?
With efforts to rebrand America's national identity in the electronic media falling flat like a bad online date, taking away the dollar's too big to fail status might be the better wake up call.
Advocating for a Weak Dollar Policy Is Like Throwing a Birthday Party for Osama Bin Laden?
What is "free trade"? What is "fair trade"? "Weak dollar" policy? "Strong dollar" policy? Most people don't know so conservatives can easily come in and label something as fair trade that isn't necessarily good for anyone.
Democrats: Stop Kissing Elephant Trunk and Reform Health Insurance Right
The meeting got testy. Voices rose last Thursday among Democrats over differences in the Senate Finance and Health committee versions of insurance ref...
Will Obama Save America From Capitalism?
American-style capitalism is the system that gives you pilots buying groceries with food stamps and sheriffs throwing families out of their homes. President Obama, it's time for a "new" New Deal.
Jeffrey Sachs: US Policy Making Is a Bipartisan Failure, Failing to Even Acknowledge Environmental Challenges
Jeffrey Sachs pulled a fire alarm on the optimism on leadership in business and opportunities abroad with his perspectives on the bipartisan failure of US policy and the world's risk of ecological bankruptcy.
Why Fortune Loves Charlie Rose
A new profile of Charlie Rose is representative of a trend that seems to be growing: the sort of meta-, multi-platform story that has so many odd conflicts and strange connections that it makes you dizzy.
10 Pithy Observations About Boulder (Part Two)
Yoga studios proliferate. My stereotype of Boulder has had to change. Formerly it was a blonde mom driving a Land Rover and on her cell phone. Now: a 20-something carrying a yoga mat.
Bill Maher, Roman Polanski and Barack Obama
Lineage and religion -- they are killer topics. It's not easy to escape religious roots. No one makes their own choice at birth regarding religion, yet ancestry and religious rules decide a lot.
You Owe Me 30 Cents for Dinner: Penny Wise and Pound Foolish on Health Care
We're considering leaving millions of Americans without affordable insurance and missing our best chance to force the insurance companies to clean up their acts over 0.6% of what we'll spend anyway?
Key Senators, Krugman Call for Tariffs on High-Carbon-Footprint Imports
In the wake of the China tire-import decision, we have heard a lot of rhetoric falsely labeling it as the beginning of a trade war. It is not. Workers around the world are engaged in an effort to protect themselves.
Why, Oh Why, Do They Never Listen?
Let's not pretend Democratic health reform doesn't include new taxes -- and mandated fee payments to profitable private companies. If their bill passes in this form they'll pay a heavy political price for it. And they'll deserve it.
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