Posts Tagged ‘taxes’

Nothing Changed on New Year’s Day

Tuesday, January 4th, 2011

2011 is a time for open eyes and clear thinking. Here’s a few people pointing in the right direction…

  1. Paul Krugman tracks the cross-eyed hypocrisy that actually passes for serious thinking in economics and public policy these days in “The New Voodoo.”
  2. Ralph Nader and Chris Hedges take a look at the shape of things to come in “The Left Has Nowhere to Go.”
  3. David Michael Green sends greetings from an Orwellian future: “Happy New Year, 2030.”

Death and Taxes

Monday, December 20th, 2010

Chris Hedges writes beautifully about war: “Bitter Memories of War on the Way to Jail“; and DMG is entertaining with his look at the fate of Obamacare: “Health Care and the Wages of Sin.”

Tax the Rich

Tuesday, November 23rd, 2010

I’m in the middle of the Pierson/Hacker book — it’s good — and came across this short note, online, from them on the current insanity: “Warren Buffett vs. the Broken-Clock Brigade.”

We Americans are going to have to wake up to the reality of our situation. No one else is going to do that for us. This book by Hacker and Pierson is as good a place as any to get a handle on what is going on in this country. It’s a sad state of affairs and it is going to take a big effort to correct. We might as well roll up our sleeves and get started….

Unenlightenment and Debt

Monday, November 15th, 2010

David Michael Green tackles the dummy in “The Religion of Politics.”

Michael Hudson goes into good detail on how one-sided economics in America has become: “Obama’s Most Recent Sellout is his Worst Yet.”

Inequality Codified

Sunday, November 14th, 2010

This sounds like a good book (link to a review by Bob Herbert): “Fast Track to Inequality.”