Category: The Numbers Game

In Europe, at least.  France has a new Socialist President, François Hollande.  While the Euro traded lower this morning (no surprise), the opposition in Germany, both politically and to the ongoing austerity pact with France, was energized. Ms. Merkel’s political opponents, though, seemed cheered. Sigmar Gabriel, head of the opposition Social…

When I first encountered the Arthur Kohl-Riggs campaign for governor running as a Republican, I thought it was a joke. I’ve been paying attention since then and of course he’s gotten short shrift from the official media and bloggers alike. But after watching this video, whether you take his campaign…

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Paul Krugman gave a talk recently at the Economic Policy Institute about his new (and quite readable) book, End This Depression Now!  This video provides a really good introduction to the concepts presented in the book and is well worth the 45 minutes you invest in watching it.

Over at Red State, there is rumor of a coup d’etat in the Wisconsin GOP. (NOTE: I will not link to RedState, but here is a URL for the article you can copy and paste: http://bit.ly/JJI0kn) The Wisconsin Tea Party movement is not gelling to Tommy Thompson who presumed he would have…

I’ve been tracking the corrupt Prison-Industrial Complex for awhile now.  Earlier posts alleged a catastrophic conflict of interest that permits private companies to run public prisons.  Well, it turns out that this conflict of interest is not the worst part.  The worst part is the supervisory failure by GEO prison…

Over the weekend, two of the most knowledgeable people on our economy spoke up and neither were very kind to Paul Ryan (R – Wall St). The first is Nobel laureate economist and Columbia University professor Joseph Stiglitz: “Democracies can withstand cuts without seeing light at the end of the…

Public-sector job losses don’t count. Except when they do. One way to dramatize just how severe our de facto austerity has been is to compare government employment and spending during the Obama-era economic expansion, which began in June 2009, with their tracks during the Reagan-era expansion, which began in November…

If we don’t cut corporate taxes immediately, it will be the end of civilization…. …or not.

Good news for the state, the two state-level indicies of economic activity in Wisconsin are finally, after a year, pointing in the right direction.  While many will attempt to credit Walker for this movement, one should remember that for many months, Wisconsin lagged far behind the rest of the nation…