Archive for December, 2010
Defend Ohio- -Stop Kasich
Defend Ohio–Stop Kasich: Hat-tip to D&S pal Taki M. about this rally, organized partly by sometime D&S author Dan La Botz (who also ran for U.S. Senate in Ohio in 2010, under the banner “Dan La Botz–Buckeye Socialist”!). Here are the details: Should Ohio collective bargaining rights to public workers? Privatize the Ohio Turnpike? Cut ...Read more.
A Code of Ethics for Economists
A quick holiday post: Hat-tip to KH about Gerald Epstein’s effort to get economists to adopt a code of ethics at the upcoming Allied Social Sciences Association meetings, January 6th through 9th. (These are mainly the American Economics Association meetings, but I love how the name of the umbrella association makes it sound as if ...Read more.
Senator Sanders’ Socialism (Nancy Folbre)
(1) Nancy Folbre at the New York Times’ Economix: A nice piece about Sanders’ filibuster against the tax compromise: When the rumpled, plain-spoken Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont spoke virtually nonstop for more than eight hours on Dec. 10 to explain his opposition to tax cuts for the rich, he quickly became a YouTube and ...Read more.
Tax Deal Endangers Social Security, etc.
(1) Tax Deal Endangers Social Security: From Heidi Hartmann, president of the Institute for Women’s Policy Research, an interesting analysis of the payroll-tax-holiday provision of the White House’s compromise on taxes–one of the things they got in exchange for caving in to Republicans on the Bush-era tax-cuts [<--I'm starting to dislike this phrase, as it ...Read more.
Balance on Assange Charges
Our fantastic cartoonist Barry Deutsch texted me to ask for more balance on the question of the sexual assault charges against Julian Assange. In my post yesterday, I linked to the Guardian article that details the charges against Assange, and to a defense of Assange by his former lawyer. I didn’t weigh in myself on ...Read more.
Assange Arrested, Austerity, Textbooks rated, etc.
(1) Julian Assange Arrested in London: The head of WikiLeaks turned himself in to Scotland Yard, was arrested, and was refused bail. He now faces possible extradition to Sweden, which he will resist. Here’s the story from the Guardian. Here’s something interesting on the charges against him in Sweden, from an Australian lawyer who had ...Read more.
Obama’s PATCO; the Fed’s Wikileaks; Jobs
(1) Obama’s PATCO? Is the Federal Pay Freeze Obama’s PATCO? asks Mike Elk at In These Times‘s labor blog Working In These Times. “The Obama Administration, looking to bolster its deficit-cutting credentials and show its desire to take on what some label a “special interest”—organized labor—yesterday announced a two-year freeze on the wages of all ...Read more.
Record Profits; Wikileaks and Bank of America; etc.
(1) Record Profits in 3rd Quarter: In case you missed it last week while making pumpkin pie, U.S. companies just had their best quarter on record. From the New York Times: American businesses earned profits at an annual rate of $1.659 trillion in the third quarter, according to a Commerce Department report released Tuesday. That ...Read more.
