Posts Tagged ‘Deficit Commission’
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.
Cat-Food Commission, Deficits, etc.
(1) The Cat-Food Commission–Oops!–I Mean the Deficit Commission: Two new articles posted to the D&S website just now: Deficits: Real Issue, Phony Debates, by Rick Wolff (from the Nov/Dec issue), and The Deficit Commission and Redistribution, by Darwin BondGraham (web-only). Check them out! Joshua Holland also has a great article on deficits over at Alternet: Why ...Read more.
More on Academic Kickbacks
When he read my last post, Rob Larson (author of the cover story in the current issue of D&S) forwarded me an interesting article from the Wall Street Journal, Beware of “Independent” Investing Research, and the accompanying graphic (see above). I had been planning to post again on that very issue of economists for hire–the ...Read more.
