Archive for 2006
Econamici: The Plague Before Thanksgiving
I remember, in the fourth grade, snipping colored feathers from construction paper to make my Indian bonnet. That was for the annual First Thanksgiving pageant. Dressed up as Indians and Pilgrims, we paraded around a table loaded with pies and a paper-maché turkey. We recited how the Pilgrims had landed at Plymouth Rock in 1620. ...Read more.
Econamici: Benefits of Military Spending
November 12, 2006 As Kevin Phillips recorded in Wealth and Democracy (2002), war has created the opportunity for many great fortunes. Thus the frenzied looting–and disregard for the lives of both US soldiers and corporate employees–displayed in Robert Greenwald’s new film Iraq for Sale: The War Profiteers. One small example: drivers shuttle empty mail trucks ...Read more.
Econ-Atrocity: Will it matter if the Democrats win?
Will it matter if the Democrats win?By Gerald Friedman, CPE Staff EconomistNovember 3, 2006 An Econ-Atrocity, brought to you by the Center for Popular Economics. As I write this, it appears likely that after 12 years in the wilderness, the Democrats will capture a majority in the House of Representatives and will make substantial gains ...Read more.
Capital Punishment for Capitalist Crimes
Thank you, Book Liberation Front!
The books are moved. All three tons of them. Big thanks to all the new members of the Book Liberation Front: Dan and Chris from the Dollars & Sense staff, our work study student Jason, Paulie Peña and Jessamin Yu, and Tom Bozeman, who showed up because he read about it on the blog. (Exciting!) ...Read more.
A Thomas Friedman quiz
Thomas Friedman: The Lexus and the Olive Tree. The World is Flat. A column in the New York Times. “Arguably the world’s most influential and popular foreign-policy thinker,” according to The Washingtonian. Quick dear readers—which quote is parody and which is the real Thomas Friedman? A. We got this free market, and I admit, I ...Read more.
Dollars & Sense becomes the Book Liberation Front
Dollars & Sense has temporarily transformed itself into the Book Liberation Front. The warehouse where we have stored our book inventory for several years is doubling its minimum monthly storage fee on November 1. Soon after we got the news, we found a new home for the books at Encuentro 5—the fifth floor of the ...Read more.
Background on the crisis in Oaxaca.
Violence has escalated in the Mexican state of Oaxaca. Several protesters were killed last Friday, including Brad Will, an independent journalist affiliated with New York Indymedia. Mexican president Vincente Fox has sent federal police forces into Oaxaca. The following report is from the Inter Press Service News Agency: The Popular Assembly of the People of ...Read more.
The Economist: Weapon of Mass Deduction?
The Economist’s latest ad campaign has become ubiquitous in Boston over the past few weeks. Similar to the recent Snickers campaign that co-opts the adbusting technique of subverting a brand’s logo, The Economist’s ads feature the magazine’s red-box logo with various slogans replacing the words “The Economist.” And, as much as D&S laments the reverse ...Read more.
Solving the wrong problem in Michigan
Dollars & Sense blogs, and some of our readers blog, too. Today, subscriber Richard Murphy justifies his lack of support for Michigan ballot proposal 5, which allocates half a billion additional funding for K-university education. There is no problem that the schools face that is isolated to the schools – all of these are symptomatic ...Read more.
