Lest anyone forget Hillary’s dear friend and mentor Henry orchestrated a series of military coups in South America during the 70s including Bolivia, Uruguay, Chile, and Argentina and was complicit in “a campaign of political repression and state terror involving intelligence operations and assassination of opponents” called Operation Condor. Still Selling Neoliberal Unicorns: The US …
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May 27 2016
Good for Teaching Swimming, Blood Donations, Not Much Else
The Red Cross is its own disaster: Relief agency stumbles again after Mississippi flood by Sarah Smith, ProPublica Saturday, May 21, 2016 11:00 AM EST Internal emails exchanged among state officials as the devastation unfolded document a profound lack of confidence in the charity’s ability to respond to disasters as well as problems that have …
May 27 2016
Oblivious to Irony
Pent-up fury beneath the Bernie and Trump phenomena by Jim Hightower, Salon Friday, May 27, 2016 05:58 AM EST The political cognoscenti have not understood the massive public rage from today’s “unAmerica” of glaring inequality and mass downward mobility that is the direct product of their wrenching the system with such power tools as: “free” …
May 25 2016
Solving Puerto Rico’s Financial Problems
Bernie says bail out Puerto Rico: Sanders details how the feds should rescue the territory as they did big banks by David Dayen, Salon Tuesday, May 24, 2016 05:59 AM EST Puerto Rico has been reeling from a decade of recession, and successive governments papered over those problems with excessive borrowing. Last year, Gov. Alejandro …
May 25 2016
How Influential Will Sanders’ Picks For The Platform Committee Be?
We’ll see, but the answer is likely to be, “Not very.” There are a couple of problems, the primary one (not a pun) is that nobody pays a damn bit of attention to platforms anyway, except of course your opponent, who will thoroughly analyze every piece of punctuation to see if any out of context …
May 23 2016
The End Of The World
Allow me to briefly recapitulate. The London Interbank Offer Rate, or Libor as it’s commonly called, is supposed to be the interest rate international banks charge their most credit worthy customers, other banks. It is primer than prime and the basis for most other calculations of interest rates, the amount charged to purchase money, throughout …
May 23 2016
Just Because You’re Paranoid Doesn’t Mean You Don’t Have Real Enemies
Depression. Anxiety. Seasonal Affective Disorder. I have those, diagnosed by actual doctors. I’m not paranoid beyond what would be expected, yet I have people who hate me. Funny story, not hah hah funny, strange funny. I’m in the local Hospital because I’m 120+ years old and I get sick beyond the power of chicken soup …
May 20 2016
Not Just A Game
Herr Doktor Professor ain’t the only one with a Nobel Prize in Economics. Monopoly’s New Era Joseph E. Stiglitz, Project Syndicate MAY 13, 2016 For 200 years, there have been two schools of thought about what determines the distribution of income – and how the economy functions. One, emanating from Adam Smith and nineteenth-century liberal …
May 20 2016
Just an Accident
Sure. Doctors With Enemies: Did Afghan Forces Target the M.S.F. Hospital? By MATTHIEU AIKINS, The New York Times MAY 17, 2016 For the last hour, the American gunship had been circling high above the city, carefully observing its target with night-vision sensors and waiting for clearance to strike. It was 2 in the morning on …
May 19 2016
What Inflation?
As any reputable economist knows (yes, there are a few) Price Indexes whether Consumer or Producer and regardless of any particular basket of items included are unreliable indicators of actual inflation. Fluctuation of price over time, normally in an upward direction, is only to be expected and the measure of individual prosperity is more correctly …
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