Joseph Stiglitz

Why Is There No National Energy Policy?

Patrick Takahashi | Posted 06.02.2008 | Politics


Patrick Takahashi

National energy policy? Why bother? A dollar/gallon investment tax on gasoline, the 10% solution and a 10 cents / pound carbon dioxide tax are all we need.

The $3 Trillion Shopping Spree

John Cusack | Posted 05.08.2008 | Politics


John Cusack

That was fun -- just got done spending $3 trillion. Honestly, it would have been a whole lot easier just to follow the president's example and blow it all on one illegal occupation of Iraq.

Five Years After "Mission Accomplished"

Reps. Maxine Waters, Barbara Lee, and Lynn Woolsey | Posted 05.02.2008 | Politics


Reps. Maxine Waters, Barbara Lee, and Lynn Woolsey

Instead of working to find political solutions that will calm the warring sects, our continued military presence has further entrenched the divisions on all sides of the conflict.

Jason Linkins

$3 Trillion Campaign Reveals The Cost Of Quagmire

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 04.15.2008 | Politics


Three trillion dollars is a lot of money. So much that it's hard to get your head around. You shouldn't feel bad about it, after all, John McCain ca...

Stiglitz on McCain: If He Doesn't Understand the Economy, He Doesn't Understand Security

Nathan Gardels | Posted 03.04.2008 | Politics


Nathan Gardels

"If you weaken the American economy, you won't be able to find the resources you need for security. The two cannot be separated."

The $3,000,000,000,000 War is a Domestic Issue

Arianna Huffington | Posted 03.03.2008 | Politics


Arianna Huffington

We need to pull the plug on the media's disturbing habit of acting as if foreign and domestic policy are completely separate entities -- a pair of high stakes board games that can only be taken off the shelf and played one at a time.

Stiglitz: War Costs Causing Housing Crisis

The Austrailian | Peter Wilson | Posted 02.27.2008 | Business


THE Iraq war has cost the US 50-60 times more than the Bush administration predicted and was a central cause of the sub-prime banking crisis threateni...

Why Estimates of the Cost of the War in Iraq Have Been Rising

John Tepper Marlin | Posted 11.25.2007 | Politics


John Tepper Marlin

The cost of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars so far (2002-2008) is estimated at $1.6 trillion. Based on projections through 2017, the cost is $3.5 trillion.


 

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