Category: Economy
Response to R-IN 09 Hollingsworth Poll on Actions Congress Should Take
Rep. Trey Hollingsworth, Republican Representative IN-09, posted online poll, as follows: 1. Question of the Week: As Congress works to help the American economy and…
The Economist Book Review. Were All Slaves Vicitms? All Slaveowners Villains?
So The Economist posts an authorless review of a new book which supposedly looks at the role of slavery in the history of the development…
Horror Stories of Failed Outsourcing Public Interests to Private Corporations, Attacking Pensions, and the Graying of America
Here is a fascinating, long document, reporting research on multiple failed outsourcing exercises of public services over past couple decades to private industry. Out of…
Cancel the Sequester, Raise Revenues, and Stop This Insane Destruction of American Economy
Polite words cannot express the sheer disgust I feel towards Congress at the moment over the latest manufactured, self-inflicted crisis, the sequester. It epitomizes the…
Debt Ceiling Kabuki, Deficit, and Burning Tap Water in Ohio
Let’s be honest for a moment in the midst of the absurd Kabuki Theater of the GOP threatening to shut down the government, withhold Granny’s…
