Posts Tagged ‘William K. Black’
Social Security, Tuna Fish Economics, Philly Schools
(1) Misreporting Social Security: You may have noticed dire headlines about a recent report from the Obama administration about the (ill) financial health of Social Security and Medicare, e.g. the New York Times‘s Social Security’s Financial Health Worsens. There’s a great piece at the Campaign for America’s Future by RJ Eskow about how the ...Read more.
#OccupyOakland Raid, Bill Black, and more
I’ve got a backlog of stuff to post–it will be mostly links, and in no particular order. Here goes: (1) Mike Davis on #OWS: Nice piece by Mike Davis in the LA Review of Books, No More Bubblegum. Today’s Possibly Irrelevant Image accompanied Davis’s piece; it’s from a series of wonderful greeting cards by Erika ...Read more.
D&S Panel at Left Forum
D0llars & Sense is sponsoring a panel discussion at this year’s Left Forum on the state of the banking sector. The panelists will be: Polly Cleveland of Columbia University; Rob Larson of Ivy Tech Community College; and William K. Black of the University of Missouri at Kansas City. I (D&S co-editor Chris Sturr) will moderate. ...Read more.
More on Property Taxes; More on Bill Black
(1) More from Polly Cleveland on Property Taxes: A couple of posts ago I complained about the New York Times’ coverage of deficits and taxes. The one that really steamed me reported on a NYT/CBS News poll in which a majority of people allegedly preferred cutting spending to raising taxes as a way of dealing ...Read more.
Regulatory Review; EconoFAQs on QE2
(1) Bill Black on Obama’s Regulatory Review: I had to chuckle at the Times’ headline about Obama’s regulatory review a couple of days ago: Obama Asks for Review of Rules Stifling Jobs. As I mentioned in my last post, the new post-Tucson civility has rendered the Republican’s phrase “job-killing” into “job-destroying”; now it has morphed ...Read more.
Still Banking on Fraud (William K. Black)
Bill Black Is Everywhere: We just posted the feature article by Bill Black (aka William K. Black, professor of economics and law at the University of Missouri at Kansas City), from our January/February issue, Still Banking on Fraud. It’s a great read, though depressing. Here’s what one subscriber wrote in to say: Date: Thu, Jan ...Read more.
Black on Dodd-Frank; USAS Victory; etc.
Various items: (1) New Blog Feature: Possibly Irrelevant Images. With this post I inaugurate a new feature for the D&S blog (or at least my posts here): Possibly Irrelevant Images, random images I have come across on the Internets (as I like to call them, in tribute to GWB). An inspiration for this feature is ...Read more.
