Recently, I have been telling people that we don’t need to rescue the auto industry, just those humans working for the auto industry. It would cost a lot less to […]
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Paul Krugman Comrade Greenspan wants us to seize the economy’s commanding heights. O.K., not exactly. What Alan Greenspan, the former Federal Reserve chairman—and a staunch defender of free markets—actually said […]
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Reposted from What I Saw in America. Patrick Deneen In last week’s New York Times Magazine, the Time’s economics writer David Leonhardt laid out one of the more succinct cases […]
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Big Gav Buckminster “Bucky” Fuller was an American architect, author, designer, futurist, inventor and visionary who devoted his life to answering the question “Does humanity have a chance to survive […]
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Immanuel Wallerstein Every day, I read another economist, journalist, or government official opining on how best to achieve economic recovery in this country or that. Needless to say, the remedies […]
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The following is the full text of Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner’s announcement on Tuesday of new steps to shore up the U.S. financial system. Timothy Geithner As President Obama said […]
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The following article is re-posted from the blog: The foolish pursuit of Economic Growth. Brishen Hoff Unless earth is hit by a massive meteor, we will be vastly overpopulated for […]
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Rex Weylar The year 2009 will witness a tsunami of appeals to economists to fix, as disgraced Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan put it, the “flaw” in their thinking. Most […]
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The following transcript is from a speech delivered on January 28, 2009 at the opening ceremony of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. Reposted from the Wall Street Journal […]
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