Archive for February, 2010
The Obama Budget and the Deficit Chorus
Get ready for “the deficit chorus,” as James K. Galbraith put it to us today. I was happy to see that David E. Sanger quoted Galbraith in his news analysis of Obama’s budget in today’s New York Times. But I was puzzled by the way he was quoted, in an article that makes this claim: ...Read more.
The Ignoble Prize for Economics
The Real-World Economics Review (formerly the Post-Autistic Economics Review), has opened voting for what they are calling the Ignoble Prize for Economics, for “the three economists who contributed most to enabling the Global Financial Collapse.” Here are the details: Twenty-two economists were nominated for the prize. Through consultation with contributors to the Real-World Economics Review ...Read more.
Move Your Money? (Doug Henwood)
Hat-tip to reader Michael E. for pointing us to the lead story in the January issue of Left Business Observer (which I hadn’t gotten around to reading yet), where Doug Henwood skewers the “Move Your Money” campaign that we posted on yesterday. Our introductory note to that post expressed some mild skepticism by observing that ...Read more.
Move Your Money
This is from the Feb. 1st issue of The Nation; here’s the link to the Move Your Money campaign, which Arianna Huffington and Rob Johnson of the Roosevelt Institute started. It sounds like a worthy campaign; if I had any savings I would move them (except I have never given the big banks my business, ...Read more.
