Archive for July, 2011

Debt Ceiling, Prisoners, Norway, etc.

Posted by Chris Sturr | Filed under Blog Post | Jul 29, 2011 | Tags: Angela Merkel, Bradley Manning, David Cameron, David Leonhardt, debt, debt ceiling, deficit, multiculturalism, Nicolas Sarkozy, Norway massacre, Tim DeChristopher, xenophobia | No Comments

(1) Fortress Europe and Europeans Against Multiculturalism: A couple of links relevant to the atrocious attack last Friday in Norway, which is clearly the tip of an iceberg: The first, Fortress Europe: A Deadly Exodus, documents the more than 14,000 refugees who have died trying to enter Europe since 1988. There’s an interactive map listing ...Read more.

Weisbrot and Epitropoulos on Greece

Posted by Chris Sturr | Filed under Blog Post | Jul 22, 2011 | Tags: austerity, bond market, debt, deficits, euro, Europe, Greece, Mark Weisbrot, Mike-Frank Epitropoulos, protest | 1 Comment

A Call from Mike-Frank Epitropoulos: Mike Epitropoulos, author of Greece as a Demonstration Project (Dollars & Sense, May/June 2010) called me from Athens a couple of days ago. He’ll be writing another article for us soon about the situation over there. In the meantime, check out this piece he wrote for his Znet page, The ...Read more.

Murdoch, Gang of Six, etc.

Posted by Chris Sturr | Filed under Blog Post, Humorous, Outrageous | Jul 20, 2011 | Tags: Arthur Laffer, CEPR, Cheap Trick, Dean Baker, debt, deficit, foreclosuregate, Gang of Six, Gibson, Joe Nocera, John Miller, Late Risers' Club, Medicaid, Medicare, Mitt Romney, News Corporation, robosigning, Rupert Murdoch, Social Security, Wall Street Journal, WMBR | 2 Comments

(1) Laffer’s Latest Curve-ball: Subscriber Kris W. alerted us that the dumb op-ed Arthur Laffer co-wrote for the WSJ a while back, which John Miller critiques in his July/August Up Against the Wall Street Journal column, is posted all over the web on anti-union websites and elsewhere. In connection with the NLRB’s recent decision against ...Read more.

Purloined Trillions, etc.

Posted by Chris Sturr | Filed under Blog Post | Jul 11, 2011 | Tags: FDIC, Jim Cypher, News Corporation, News of the World, Rupert Murdoch, Sheila Bair | 1 Comment

(1) Thanks! It looks like we got a bunch of orders and donations after my last blog post (Shameless Plugs). Thanks! If you haven’t made a donation as part of our summer dry season fundraiser, read more about it here, and scroll all the way down to make your donation. Donate $50 or more and ...Read more.

Shameless Plugs

Posted by Chris Sturr | Filed under Blog Post | Jul 8, 2011 | No Comments

(1) Cover Article All Over the Internets: The news aggregators have been going to town with the cover article for our July/August issue, Universal Health Care: Can We Afford Anything Less?, by Jerry Friedman. Common Dreams picked it up last Friday, and it was the lead story on Truthout on Tuesday. It has been getting ...Read more.

New Issue! Plus, various items

Posted by Chris Sturr | Filed under Blog Post | Jul 1, 2011 | Tags: Ann Pettifor, Catherine Rampell, Doug Henwood, Gerald Friedman, Keynes, Keynsianism, Larry Summers, Nicholas Kristof, Phil Angelides, public-sector unions, single-payer, Steven Greenhouse | No Comments

(1) Our July/August issue is out! E-subscribers got their copies yesterday, and print copies have been shipped to subscribers and newsstands. Check out Jerry Friedman’s cover story on single-payer–it is a new analysis according to which only a single-payer system can address the cost problem in the U.S. health-care system. (2) Dry Season Fundraiser: This ...Read more.