This and that for your weekend reading.- For those looking to paint foreign investment as a panacea for economic development, Paul Krugman offers up (via Kash Mansori) what should be a chilling correlation between capital imbalances and economic disast…
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Accidental Deliberations: Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading.- Dan Gardner makes the case (with which I wholeheartedly agree) as to the importance of making thoughtful decisions at the best of times:If there is one lesson we must learn from 9/11 and the decade that followe…
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Paul Krugman calls out the U.S.’ Republican Party for holding the country hostage until its demands are met. Lucky our own right-wingers are so much more reasonable.
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An unnamed person with some clue about economics:
Pundits, Very Serious Politicians, and more have spent the past two years plus doing everything they can to make the deficit the center of public discourse, to focus all our fears on the attack by bond …
Accidental Deliberations: Juxtaposition
Kenneth Rogoff describes the type of policy needed to push developed economies out of their current slump:too many policy-makers have relied on the belief that, at the end of the day, this is just a deep recession that can be subdued by a generous help…
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Monday Morning Links
This and that for your long weekend reading.- I’m not ordinarily a huge fan of spending much time in the present focusing on the past. But Dan Gardner’s suggested label for today’s holiday looks to be well worth adopting – if nothing else as a reminder…
Continue readingBlunt Objects: Paul Krugman: Pretty Much a Tea Partier
… in the sense that it doesn’t seem compromise is on his agenda, much like the Tea Partiers to the south: Many pundits view taking a position in the middle of the political spectrum as a virtue in itself. I don’t. Wisdom doesn’t necessarily res…
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Nobel Laureate Paul Krugman:Some of us have long complained about the cult of “balance,” the insistence on portraying both parties as equally wrong and equally at fault on any issue, never mind the facts. I joked long ago that if one party declared…
Continue readingRedBedHead: US Debt War Will Lead To Recession
Hate to say it folks but there’s about a snowball’s chance in hell that the world won’t have returned to recession by the end of this year. There are many factors involved that make this likely – the necessary slowing of China’s growth, the defaults an…
Continue readingThey Call Me "Mr. Sinister": Poor Paul Krugman
I rely on him for accurate economic analysis. I may have to stop going to his page though. It is hard watching someone you admire, sink into despair. That is the problem with actually seeing what’s going on, but being powerless to stop a coming disaste…
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From Krugman, who else:And don’t believe the nonsense about the benefits of spending cuts that has taken over much of our public discourse: slashing spending at a time when the economy is deeply depressed would destroy hundreds of thousands and quite…
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your midweek reading.- The Star skewers the Cons’ insistence on pushing ahead with bad budget choices:As the Star argued during the election, Canada needs progressive economic vision in the form of strategic investments in sc…
Continue readingNEW MEDIA AND POLITICS CANADA: Monday Mayhem
Here’s the links to American wankery and International news that were covered on this morning’s radio show to help you get the week started.
Beginning with the Nobel winning economist Paul Krugman and his thoughts on what he calls the ‘Austerity D…
Continue readingbastard.logic: “Roger Ailes as Howard Hughes”?
by matttbastard Let’s hope the ugly SOB still clips his toenails. Seriously — producing daily crypto-fascistic dispatches carefully crafted to rile up the rubes while scoring mega ad rev? Understandable. Poor hygeine? Absolutely unforgivable. h/t Krugman (who, speaking of unforgivable … Continue reading →
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