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Both Sides Now: Spitzer/Matalin on Santorum as SNL's Church Lady and Murray=OWS?

HuffPost Radio | Posted 02.27.2012

Read More: President Obama, Keynes, Rick Santorum, Mary Matalin, Eliot Spitzer, Stolen Valor, Pre-Natal, Anthony Comstock, Payroll Tax Extension, Contraception, Charles Murray, Paul Krugman, Steve Schmidt, Church Lady, Politics News

Matalin and Spitzer debate whether Santorum's religious conservatism has veered into Church Lady Comstockery ("Is it Satan?"). Will Mitt's money win Michigan? Then: why did the GOP cave and is Charles Murray the cultural equivalent of OWS?

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Nicholas Wapshott's Keynes Hayek

Robert Teitelman | Posted 11.29.2011

Read More: Nicholas Wapshott, John Maynard Keynes, Keynes, Keynes General Theory, Keynesian Economics Hayek, Keynesianism, Milton Friedman, The Road to Serfdom, Ayn Rand, Business News

Keynesianism was dealt a serious blow. What's left in the ruins? Who knows? But what occurs on a debate stage or a presidential podium is really not what defines modern economics. Or at least it shouldn't.

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What We Can Learn From John Maynard Keynes's Optimism

The New York Times | SYLVIA NASAR | Posted 11.18.2011

Read More: Unemployment, John Maynard Keynes, Sylvia Nasar, Optimism, Great Recession, Keynes, The New York Times, Economic Optimism, Great Depression, Business News

For someone who’s been dead for 65 years, John Maynard Keynes has amazing presence. Open a paper, click on a blog or TV, and, voilà, like Waldo, he...

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Elites Are Abandoning Keynesianism for Self-Preservation

Chriss Street | Posted 10.30.2011

Read More: France, Other People's Money, Elitists, Keynes, Wizard of Oz, Federal Reserve, Self-Preservation, Pimco, Government Handshake, Seven Years War, Keynesianism, Politics News

Pacific Investment Management Company (PIMCO), the world's largest manager of bonds, has just released research analysis titled: "Saying No to Keynes ...

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F.A. Hayek Against the Conservative

James Peron | Posted 10.17.2011

Read More: F.A. Hayek, Classical Liberalism, Conservatives, Glenn Beck, Tea Party, Keynes, Liberals, Socialism, Politics News

Friedrich Hayek, the intransigent opponent of socialism that Glenn Beck and conservatives admire, also saw himself equally opposed to their conservative agenda, something conservatives ignore at their peril.

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Fame and Death in April

Norman MacAfee | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Cesar Chávez, Einstein, Keynes, Picasso, Ford, Ginger Rogers, Frank Lloyd Wright, Hitler, Murrow, T. S. Eliot, Sartre, Garbo, ?New York Times? Obituary Page, Nixon, Fred Astaire, Stravinsky, Douglas MacArthur, Barnum, Healthy Living News

If you go to The New York Times' obituary page, you will see the list of deaths of famous people who died in any given month and were written about in...

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Government Spending Goes From Hero To Goat

HuffingtonPost.com | Dan Froomkin | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Politics, US News, Keynesian Economics, Keynes, Economy, Government Spending, Jobs, Double-Dip Recession, Recession, Economic Theory, Keynesian, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- It wasn't so very long ago that many economists and even some White House officials were talking about the need for more government spen...

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State Rep. Larry Brown to the HIV-Positive: You Can All Go Rot!

Alex Blaze | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Economics, Money, Lesbian, Keynes, Aids, Blame, Hiv, North Carolina, Diseases, Gay, Larry Brown, Politics News

Well, with all the states facing budget crunches and looking for something to cut, someone in this homophobic society was bound to come right and say ...

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Not enough colère against cholera

Jane Regan | Posted 05.25.2011

Now they are saying we have 3,481 killed by cholera. It is doubtless many more... But in any case, these are just numbers to newspaper readers and ra...

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The End of the Keynesian Experiment

Nathan Lewis | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Angela Merkel, Gold Standard, Central Planning Principles, Gold, Spain, Italy, Floating Currency, Euro, Deng Xiaoping, Hu Jintao, Greece, Barack Obama, Dollar, Keynes, Portugal, Soviet Union, Business News

It is not too long -- less than a decade I would guess -- before the Keynesian Experiment comes to an end, and the world can finally get back on a more productive and healthy track.

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Haiti - What "work" are the "cash-for-work" programs really doing?

Jane Regan | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Foreign Aid, Keynes, United Nations, U.S. Agency for International Development, Robert Scheer, Tomas, Humanitarian Aid, Foreign Policy, Ngo, Video, Military, Haiti, Investigative Journalism, U.S. Army, Haiti Aid, Usaid, Refugees, Humanitarianism, Politics News

"As Haiti suffers, the world dozes," remarked a recent Washington Post editorial. But not everyone is dozing... All across Haiti, humanitarian agen...

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The Latest Mortgage Foreclosure Mess is just another Financial Crisis.

Warren Mosler | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Taxes, Mortgages, Aggregate Demand, Payroll Tax Holiday, Keynes, Fica, Foreclosure, Abba Lerner, Business News

The current mortgage crisis is not a real economic crisis.There have been no houses that have been actually destroyed - there has been no fire, no hur...

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'Stimulus Now': Economists Including Joseph Stiglitz, Alan Blinder Call For More Government Spending

The Daily Beast | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: John-Cassidy, Joseph Stiglitz, Alan Blinder, Deficits, Keynes, Government Spending, Laura Tyson, Sir Harold Evans, Stimulus, Business News

As in the 1930s, the economy is suffering a sharp decline in aggregate demand and loss of business confidence. Long experience shows that monetary pol...

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Conservatives Are Clueless on Jobs

Zach Carter | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Jobs Crisis, Keynes, Economy, Government Spending, Deficit Spending, Jobs, The Fed, Krugman, Deficit, Ezra Klein, Unemployment, Wall Street, Bailout, Carry Trade, Banks, Interest Rates, Paul Ryan, Yglesias, Business News

Paul Ryan's quest to slash government spending is a job-killing agenda. He has to resort to crazy incoherent arguments about interest rates because everybody can see that spending money to create jobs will, you know, create jobs.

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'The Road From Ruin': Are We Naive Idiots For Thinking Business Can Be Anything But Greedy?

Matthew Bishop | Posted 05.25.2011

We don't believe capitalism will ever be perfect, or that you can entirely drive out the dark side of human nature. But we can do a lot better than we have done so far.

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'Naked Keynesianism' At The University Of Texas, Says Fox News (VIDEO)

HuffingtonPost.com | Dan Froomkin | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Naked Keynsianism, Fox News, James Galbraith, Varney Keynes, Stuart Varney, Keynes, Varney Galbraith, Galbraith Deficit, James Galbraith Keynes, Keynesianism, Business News

Fox News host Stuart Varney has lashed out at University of Texas economist James Galbraith for teaching his students "naked Keynesianism" -- to Galbr...

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In the Century of "Black Swans", Modern Economics Deserves "Creative Destruction"

Dr. Vladimir A. Masch | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Keynesian Economics, Economics, Keynes, Margaret Thatcher, Ronald Reagan, Laissez-Faire, Deregulation, Business News

Neoclassical economics must be replaced. Nobody can predict now the full scale of its radical replacement, and how beneficial would that replacement become, but its absence will surely be a tragedy.

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Keynesian Economics Dissected: Deficits and John Maynard Keynes

Sheldon Filger | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Keynesian Economics, Great Recession, Global Financial Crisis, John Maynard Keynes, Keynes, Economic Crisis, Business News

What is left out of the description of his theory in regards to counter-cyclical fiscal policy, is that Keynes also believed that in times of relative prosperity sovereigns should create budget surpluses.

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7 Great Books By Economists

Huffington Post | Jessie Kunhardt | Posted 05.25.2011

There's a major panel discussion going on today in Washington, D.C. called "The Next Stage," in which economists are coming together to discuss the pr...

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Time for Economic Polluters to Pay Up? Tobin or not Tobin...

Sony Kapoor | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Merkel, Financial Transaction Taxes, G-20, Sarkozy, Tobin Tax, Keynes, Economic Bailout, Economic Collapse, Bailout, Economics, Economy, Government Spending, Finanical Crisis, Fiscal Policy, Business News

The financial crisis, the biggest in living memory, has tilted the political and financial landscape in a direction that makes Tobin Taxes not just more desirable but also much easier to implement.

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Other Economists in the Room

Jane Smiley | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: New York Times Magazine, No-Nothing, External Costs, Dickens, Marx, The Shock Doctrine, Hoover Institution, Trollope, Amazon, Palo Alto, Alan Greenspan, Finance, Keynes, Communist Manifesto, Proust, Oil, New York Times, Exxon, Frued, Kiev, Paul Krugman, Business News

I don't disagree with Paul Krugman, but he is missing out on some big issues that also need to be discussed and understood before we actually know what is going on in our world.

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The Fiscal Stimulus Will Pay For Itself

Ann Pettifor | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Deficit, Fiscal Stimulus, Unemployment, Rachel Maddow, Keynes, Economists, Republicans, Multiplier, Stimulus Package, Financial Crisis, Business News

It is simply wrong to suggest that the fiscal stimulus "will cripple us long-term." It will not. The fiscal stimulus will pay for itself -- here's how.

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Stimulus Plans Don't Work

Alan Schram | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Keynes, Obama, Libor, Stimulus, S&P 500, Fdic, Money Market Funds, Dollar, Wall Street, Business News, Tax Cuts, Bank Deposits, Saving Money, Deficit, Dow, Tarp, Financial Crisis, Economy, Business News

Spending is the problem that caused this crisis in the first place. We cannot fix the problem using more of its root cause.

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Economic Recovery -- Five Lessons from the Depression

John Tepper Marlin | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Economic Recovery, Milton Friedman, Keynes, Lessons From Depression, Economy, Bernanke, Monetary Policy, Great Depression, Business News

The Washington Consensus is that whatever measures are needed to ensure economic recovery should be taken. This is especially true of the incoming te...

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The Lure of Keynesianism

Henryk A. Kowalczyk | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Financial Crisis, Free Market, Economy, Robert Reich, Money, Keynes, Socialism, Capitalism, Free Market Ideology, Keynesian Economics, Business News

The way out of our crisis is to limit further the influence of government over the economy, so that even if someone could afford to buy political influence, there would be very little to sell.

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