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Protests have erupted in the Greek capital with thousands of people joining strike action over the prospect of more budget cuts. Unions say the economy is being driven downwards … [Keep reading >>]
KPFA Radio 94.1FM presents:
THOMAS FRANK
“Pity the Billionaire: The Hard Times Swindle and the Unlikely Resurgence of the American Right”
Hosted by Richard Wolinsky
Wednesday, January 25, 2012 – 7:30 pm
Berkeley Hillside Club
2286 Cedar … [Keep reading >>]
KPFA Radio 94.1FM presents:
THOMAS FRANK
“Pity the Billionaire: The Hard Times Swindle and the Unlikely Resurgence of the American Right”
Hosted by Richard Wolinsky
Wednesday, January 25, 2012 – 7:30 pm
Berkeley Hillside Club
2286 Cedar … [Keep reading >>]
KPFA Radio 94.1FM presents
An Evening with Richard Wolff
“The Problem is Capitalism. The Solution is Democracy at Work.”
Hosted by Brian Edwards-Tiekert
Thursday, January 12, 2012 – 7:30 P.M.
First Congregational Church of … [Keep reading >>]
Joe Nocera seconds Paul Krugman’s earlier plea to distinguish between economic policies that will save all parties and an application of personal morality that will ruin all.
Can’t the Germans see, … [Keep reading >>]
In another article to add to those already arguing that lower taxes for corporations will not encourage their investment in R&D or job producing products and plants. The corporations are … [Keep reading >>]
Not a front page article, with screaming headlines. Let’s make it so.
The top 1 percent of earners more than doubled their share of the nation’s income over the last three … [Keep reading >>]
I passed up, at the WH Smith, English language Bookstore in Paris, the title, “This Time It’s Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly,” in part because I’m still immersed in … [Keep reading >>]
Even with plenty of things in Paris to make me happy, this added a soupçon of delight today:
The fallen hedge fund billionaire Raj Rajaratnam received the longest prison sentence ever for … [Keep reading >>]
Frank Rich and Adam Moss talk about what’s really in Ron Suskind’s new book, The Confidence Men. It’s pretty ugly all the way around. Reminds me of the incompetence, weakness, … [Keep reading >>]
If all the economics you ever read is in Krugman’s columns you’ll know a lot more than most people. Here he elucidates the problem of regarding debts as a moral … [Keep reading >>]
A few grains of sanity in the vast vat of GOP madness:
…in an interview with Fox 4 News, multimillionaire Henry Bloch — co-founder and chairman emeritus of the tax preparation … [Keep reading >>]
