Posts Tagged ‘Goldman Sachs’
The Weather; General Strike; Goldman Sachs
(1) The Weather and #OWS: The image above is from a German Socialist Students Union poster from 1968 (it was apparently a takeoff on a slogan from the national rail system, according to this site). The poster headed a nice piece from Viewpoint Magazine on #OWS and the weather–super-relevant now that many inches of ...Read more.
#OB Crackdown; More Teach-Ins; etc.
(1) Teach-Ins Continue at #OccupyBoston: UMass-Boston economist Arjun Jayadev did a great teach-in yesterday at #OccupyBoston. His focus was on arguments for austerity that go under the oxymoronic name “expansionary contraction” (all the arguments are faulty, it turns out). There was a nice and steady audience of about 30 people, and they seemed hungry for ...Read more.
#OccupyWallStreet; ”Stop Resisting! Stop Fighting!”
(Sorry–no picture today–the post is already too long, and there are two embedded videos. Even if you skim, though, please read through to the end. There’s a bit of a punchline in item #5. –CS) 1.) #OccupyWallStreet: This weekend, I’ll be going to a conference at St. Francis College in Brooklyn, sponsored by the Union ...Read more.
Teaching Economics, Big-Bank Style
The New York Times, citing results from the National Assessment of Educational Progress (publicized as “The Nation’s Report Card”), reports that “42 percent of high school seniors were deemed proficient in the 2006 economics test, a larger proportion than in any other subject over the last decade.” In this era of economic crisis, it would ...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.
Three Big Headlines: BP, Banking, Goldman
Wow–three big headlines today: (1) BP supposedly manages to cap the Deepwater Horizon well–for now, at least–after 87 days of oil gushing into the Gulf of Mexico. It is clearly far from over. Not only are we not really sure whether the well will stop spewing oil (as indicated by this article posted to the ...Read more.
