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Dean Baker on David Brooks
Dean Baker posted a great response to that David Brooks column I mentioned yesterday. Here’s what he says: The Arrogant David Brooks Tells Readers That Stimulus Will Risk National Insolvency Tuesday, 06 July 2010 03:27 David Brooks has decided to jump into the debate over stimulus with both feet. In a column in which he ...Read more.
The Bleak Jobs Picture
Friday’s jobs report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics was bleak. Though the unemployment rate went down to 9.5% (from 9.7%), that’s because the ranks of discouraged workers increased. The economy shed 125,000 jobs, which was mostly due to the end of some 200K temporary Census jobs. Private employers added only 83K jobs. Here’s an ...Read more.
July/August 2010 Issue
We have sent our July/August 2010 issue to the printers, and we will soon be emailing it to e-subscribers. (Not a subscriber? Click here.) We’ve posted a couple of the articles from the new issue to the website: Mary Bottari’s bubble-chart comparing the Wall Street bailout to other large government expenditures (here); and Elissa Dennis’s ...Read more.
Several Items on Immigration
Several items on immigration I have been meaning to post: (1) From D&S collective member and frequent author Alejandro Reuss, an op-ed about immigration that was part of the Progressive Media Project of The Progressive magazine. Some tidbits: Conservatives Should Favor Free Immigration By Alejandro Reuss, June 4, 2010 Conservatives who claim to defend individual ...Read more.
Several Items on BP and Offshore Drilling
I really can’t recommend Global Research’s page on the BP disaster enough. It’s not (or not mostly?) original content, but it’s a great collection of stuff. For example: (1) This piece on the judge who blocked the moratorium on offshore drilling: The federal judge who lifted Obama’s six-month drilling moratorium had interests in Transocean and ...Read more.
Extra! on Inequality; ICE at Gulf Spill
Two more items: (1) The current issue of Extra!, the magazine of Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting, is about inequality, and there are (as always) some really great article. Two worth mentioning: Wealth Gap Yawns—and So Do Media Little interest in study of massive race/gender disparities By Julie Hollar Who Ate the Dessert? Deficit mania ...Read more.
Several Items on Banking Reform
Some items on banking reform, which is still in reconciliation: According to the Wall Street Journal and other outlets, Democrats are sparring over Blanche Lincoln’s derivatives provision (which would bar banks from derivatives trading, requiring them to spin off their divisions that trade in them). Here’s an article at HuffPo by Robert Pollin of the ...Read more.
Several items on BP Spill
Multiple apologies again for the skimpy posting lately–things have been busy here at the D&S office. I hope we can begin posting more regularly soon. For now, here are some items on the BP Gulf oil spill that have been accumulating on my desk; I will do an post of oil- and tarball-free items later ...Read more.
Banking Reform, Blowouts, Plumes, etc.
A few items (apologies again for so few posts lately–the energy I’d be putting into posting has gone into fixing the blog): (1) On Banking Reform. Now that the banking regulation bill is in reconciliation, it will be interesting to see what comes out the other end of the sausage-maker, and in particular whether all ...Read more.
D&S Author on Greece on Counterspin
Counterspin, the excellent radio edition of Extra!, the excellent left media criticism magazine of Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR), interviewed D&S author Mike Epitropoulos for this week’s program. (Mike wrote Greece as a Demonstration Project for our current issue.) Listen to the interview (and the whole program) here.
