Assorted content to end your week. – Benjamin Austin, Edward Glaeser and Lawrence Summers make the case for economic policy focused on reducing regional disparities.
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Dead Wild Roses: Could We Get Back to Just “Screwing the Poor”?
I sincerely hope the MAGA’s down south are enjoying the bountiful economic gifts the cheeto-in-cheif and his republican bag men are bestowing upon them. I
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Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Amir Sufi and Atif Mian discuss how household debt tends to drive both the booms and busts of
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: What is Marxism?
In case you were unfamiliar. 🙂
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Why Was Greece So Brutalized By Their ‘Bailout’?
The tortures that the Grecian people are being subjected to by the neo-liberal institutions of Europe (European Commission, European Central Bank and IMF) are unnecessarily
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Don’t Make It Sound Like There’s More Than One Thing
“recognize its own climate change efforts, such as carbon capture and storage. ” Effort, not “efforts”. There’s only been one effort made, and arguably the
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Assorted content to end your week. – Livia Gershon discusses why relative equality plays a far greater role in people’s well-being than absolute income in
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: When The Earth is an Easy Bake Oven – A Few Words to Fry By…
Our actions are causing the earth to warm. This is easy slam dunk science. Yet somehow the leader of the free world didn’t get the
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This and that for your Sunday reading. – Zoe Williams highlights how misleading framing has caused far too many people to accept destructive austerity and
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Poverty is An Acceptable Outcome – Political Realities in the US.
An excerpt from Kennith Surin’s Essay, “Poverty American Style”. There are not many aspects and norms that are left to chance in society. The norms
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The Current Gilded Age – Nasty Ending Forthcoming
A regulated economy may not perform at peak performance, but rather to its credit has built in stability and resilience in order to mute and
Continue readingSusan on the Soapbox: Huffing and Puffing “Leadership”
Last week BC Premier John Horgan said BC would ban any increase in shipments of diluted bitumen (dilbit) to BC until a scientific advisory panel
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Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Joe Romm discusses new research showing that man-made greenhouse gas emissions have ended an 11,000-year era of climate
Continue readingDefend Public Healthcare: Hospital funding announcement falls short
Bowing to public pressure and the over-capacity crisis in our hospitals, the Ontario minister of health and long-term care, Eric Hoskins, announced Friday hospital funding
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This and that for your Sunday reading. – Victor Cyr discusses the problems with a public policy focus on capitalism without any concern for human
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Assorted content to end your week. – Joseph Stiglitz discusses the apparent destructive belief among Davos’ elites that irrational exuberance and top-heavy economic gains are
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Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Kenneth Rogoff writes about the dangers of presuming that economic growth (at least in stock markets if not
Continue readingSusan on the Soapbox: Thank You Alberta Party!
When Greg Clark stepped down as the leader of the Alberta Party Ms Soapbox wondered whether the party had lost its mind. When Rick Fraser
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: On Capitalist Democracy – Daniel Tayor
Daniel Taylor writing in Red Flag, addresses some of the systemic problems with the economic system we currently have. “When the system is under
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: New column day
Here, on the positive natural effects of minimum wage increases – and why we shouldn’t lose them to the threat of artificial problems being created
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