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Behold and Beware Our New SWAG Economy
Today's swaggering rich are increasingly stuffing their dollars into investments that do America's 99 percent not one whit of good.
We Still Need Stronger Steps To Create Jobs
Jobs Report Dodging the Right-Wing Austerity Bullet
It may not feel like it, but we dodged a bullet in 2011 when it came to unemployment.
Psychopaths in Suits
Back in 2009, I asked "What's Wrong With Wall Street?", and then spent three posts answering that question.
Obama Pentagon Spending Cuts Will Change The Budget Debate Long Before They Reduce The Budget
Originally published at Capital Gains and Games.
There are five reasons why it was virtually inevitable the White House would make military spending an issue this year.
Whats Wrong With Wall Street Pt 3
(Read parts one and two.)
Whoever said it was right when he or she called the current economic downturn a "financial 9/11." Though he may not have meant it in quite this way, it' still an apt comparison. Because, just as 9/11 was something that didn't "just happen" to us, but was done to us, so this financial crisis did not "just happen" to to us. It is a consequence of actions taken and decisions made, and it was allowed to happen — through incompetence, indifference, and sometimes intentional neglect.
Whats Wrong With Wall Street Pt 2
Read part one.
Being married to a psychiatrist, there just happened to be a copy of the DSM IV in the house. I grabbed it and, on a hunch, turned to the section on personality disorders, where antisocial personality disorder caught my eye first.
Whats Wrong With Wall Street Pt 1
In my daily perusal of economic news, I have found myself more than once staring my computer monitor in open-mouthed wonder, occasionally exclaiming, "You've got to be kidding me," or "What's wrong with these people?",or something like that. To do what they've been doing, you'd either have to not be paying attention to what's going on or just not care.
In their case, it's a little of both. And it's diagnosable, if not treatable.
Progressive Breakfast - 1/6/2012
Each morning, Bill Scher and Terrance Heath serve up what progressives need to effect change on the kitchen-table issues families face: jobs, health care, green energy, financial reform, affordable education and retirement security. Bill Scher returns on Monday.
Is Segregation The New School Choice
I remember the day that the poor kids showed up at our school. It was in 1964.
Classes had already started, and I was in second grade, surrounded by my familiar friends from my mostly white, mostly well-to-do, suburban neighborhood in North Dallas.
