Archive for November, 2009
Santa Needs Extended Benefits, Too
The October employment reports were released today, and the unemployment rate zoomed above 10%, to 10.2%, to be exact, earlier than most economists expected. The number of jobs lost in October also surprised on the negative side, at 190,000 (v. the projected 175,000). The unemployment rate is the highest it’s been since the dreadful winter ...Read more.
Brad DeLong on Productivity Growth and Kalecki
Here’s a post from Brad DeLong’s blog, with DeLong using lots of all-caps and some abbreviations I can’t figure out (what’s “Z” for? Zounds? Zowie?–but I get the gist), and revising his view of the great Polish Marxist economist Michal Kalecki (he revised the spelling of Kalecki’s first name, too, I noticed). I am not ...Read more.
U2 Fans to MTV: 'Tear Down This Wall!'
A funny one from the Associated Press; hat-tip to Bryan S. Outrage over wall blocking free U2 Berlin concertBy KIRSTEN GRIESHABER | November 5th, 2009 BERLIN (AP) — Fans hoping to glimpse U2′s free concert celebrating 20 years since the Berlin Wall fell were outraged Thursday to find that a nearly 6-1/2-foot (2-meter) high metal ...Read more.
Sit-in for Single-Payer in Pelosi's Office
Breaking news from the folks at the Mobilization for Health Care for All: CALL PELOSI NOW! (415) 556-4862 and (202) 225-0100There are 8 people sitting in RIGHT NOW in Nancy Pelosi’s Office in San Francisco! They are not leaving until they get an answer to their demands! Their demands are that the Kucinich amendment MUST ...Read more.
Bird and Fortune on Bonuses and Bailouts
An amusing video of Brit satirists John Bird and John Fortune giving their take on the financial crisis, from the Financial Times. Hat-tip to KH. D&S collective member Ben Greenberg posted a video of Bird and Fortune’s Subprime Primer almost two years ago.
