Posts Tagged ‘David Graeber’
New Issue; Police and Occupy; etc.
(1) May/June Issue: I finally sent our May/June issue to the printers on Friday. It will take a while for print subscribers to get it, but e-subscribers got their full-color pdfs on Friday. (Not an e-subscriber? sign up here.) And I posted John Miller’s column, Taxing the Rich, from Right to Left, comparing Romney, Obama, ...Read more.
Krugman/Keen Kerfuffle
Quite the online kerfuffle happened last week between New York Times columnist and economics Nobel laureate Paul Krugman and Australian left economist Steve Keen, author of Debunking Economics (see over above), of the blog Steve Keen’s Debt Watch, and of one of the articles in our book The Economic Crisis Reader, “The ‘Credit Tsunami’” (the ...Read more.
Left Forum, Mark Weisbrot, etc.
(1) Left Forum: Left Forum 2012 was a big success and a lot of fun. Most of my time was spent at the D&Stable at the book exhibit, which involved, as usual, lots of great conversations with forum attendees (and we recruited lots of new subscribers). But I also spoke on a panel organized by ...Read more.
Goldman and Greece, etc.
(1) Goldman Sachs and Greece: A piece in Bloomberg about how Goldman made a “secret loan” to Greece in 2001 involving currency swaps and interest-rate swaps. This ended up costing Greece billions of euros. Interest-rate swaps have caused trouble for lots of municipalities (as the SEIU report I linked to the other day documents). We’ll ...Read more.
New Issue, plus Various Occupy Links
(Hat-tip to Jenny B. for today’s potentially irrelevant image.) (1) New Issue! Our Jan/Feb 2012 issue is finally at the printers. Print subscribers should get their magazines in a week to ten days; e-subscribers should get their full-color pdfs in about twenty minutes. Not a subscriber? Please subscribe right now, here. I have posted two ...Read more.
#D17; OB eviction; Gar everywhere; Eurozone; odds and ends
(1) D17: Big protests in NYC and elsewhere to commemorate the third month of #OWS. Click on the image above for info about NYC events; visit your local Occupy’s website for info about protests near you. I know some places are having rallies in support of Bradley Manning whose birthday is tomorrow and who is ...Read more.
#OWS/#OB; Afghan War Anniversary; Mark Ruffalo
A quickie post, because I have been busy setting up an Economics Forum for #OccupyBoston. (1) Voices from #OWS: A video from a guy who was sticking a camera in people’s faces on Sunday at Zuccotti Park and asking: Why are you here? I remember him, and my comrade Amy Offner and I appear toward ...Read more.
