Does the World Bank speak with forked tongue on Land Grabs? Rob Nash, Oxfam’s...
Last week I was at the World Bank’s Land and Poverty Conference in Washington DC, sitting in one of the most luxuriously appointed office buildings I have ever seen, (and I used to work for Lehman...
View Article"Jamaica's decades of debt are damaging its future" no author listed, The...
The latest IMF loan does not 'rescue' Jamaica, whose debt must be written off if its people are to take control of their economy. Many people in Jamaica would have trembled as they read the financial...
View ArticleSpain’s Descent Into Banana Republicanism by Don Quijones April 7, 2013
It seems that nary a day goes by without some new seismic political scandal breaking in Spain. In just the first few days of April, King Juan Carlos’ daughter, La Infanta Cristina, was charged with...
View ArticleNew Attacks on FDR’s New Deal Fueled by Old - and Discredited - Ideology" by...
If the US government had a dollar every time someone proclaimed to learn the lessons of the Great Depression, we probably wouldn’t have a budget deficit. Usually, these debates turn on the question of...
View Article"If the IMF is criticising UK austerity, things must be bad" Michael Burke...
Britain has been singled out by one of the troika for its weak growth, proving the failure of Tory ideology and economic policy The failure of the government's economic policy has led to a damning...
View ArticleIstván Mészáros: The New Crisis of Capitalism
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAxa82-ZQQYThis is an important presentation by Istvan Meszaros, that years later is still apt and astute. Meszaros is truly a pathfinder for socialism, and is...
View ArticleLies, Damned Lies & Sadistics: The IMF’s Role as Bankster Henchman by Don...
“We make or break human life every day of every year as probably no other force on earth has ever done in the past or will ever do again.”The above rather dramatic quote comes courtesy of one Davison L...
View ArticleModern Money & Public Purpose 6: Fiscal vs. Monetary Policy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=soVyyyXrcwoThe feedback of the first speaker is remedied about 4 minutes into the video. This is a relatively long video seminar, and it is a...
View ArticleWhy Reinhart and Rogoff Results are Crap by L. Randall Wray, Great Leap...
Kudos to UMass economists for exposing the flaws in R&R’s empirical work. The conclusion that there is some magic debt ratio beyond which growth slows was never substantiated by R&R’s data–they...
View ArticleFederal cuts put women and children last In forcing the sequester bySusan...
The congressional GOP, like the captain of the Titanic, put women and children first. The Titanic's captain was trying to save people's lives. In contrast, House Republicans, having contrived the...
View ArticleWashington 'Spends' More on Tax Breaks Than on Medicare, Defense, or Social...
Tax expenditures are funny, They're not taxes, exactly, because they save us money. They're not spending, exactly, because the dollars are never actually spent. They're somewhere in between. So think...
View ArticleKeiser Report: Monopoly Price Fixing Tyranny
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=sWJKBoUGFFA
View ArticleIf You See Something, Say Something! The “Light-Skinned” Men Threat to...
After the explosion in West, Texas, witnesses across the country report having seen groups of “light skinned” men plotting to endanger innocent Americans.read more
View ArticleSword Drops On Food Stamps The Nation Alert!!!!
http://www.thenation.com/blog/174753/sword-drops-food-stamps#axzz2WHcC3KJ6THIS IS LIKELY TO PUT PEOPLE INTO THE STREETS WHICH MAY BE EXACTLY WHAT IS INTENDED. IF NOT, IT IS MASSIVELY STUPID AND MEAN....
View ArticleGoddamn The Pusherman Don Quijone, Raging BS Blog
Released at the height of the 60′s counter-culture movement, Steppenwolf’s The Pusher was chosen as the opening song of Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper’s explosive cult classic Easy Rider (to listen to...
View ArticleAmerica Feeds The Rich: Equal Opportunity is Dead by Leo Gerad, Posted at...
The Farm Bill that is expected to pass the U.S. House this week explains income inequality in America. The Republican-sponsored proposal slashes food stamps for poor children and pads farm subsidies...
View ArticleNormalcy Bias: Reflections on a Western Epidemic by Don Quijones RagingBS.com
According to scientific research, people caught up in disasters such as earthquakes or plane crashes tend to fall into three broad ategories: About 1 in 10 remain calm and act quickly and efficiently;...
View ArticleLabour's forgotten jobs guarantee By Philip Pilkington, The Guardian Friday 7...
This week we have seen two interventions from Labour that mirror the current government's taste for austerity: Ed Miliband's commitment to copying the coalition's benefits cap; and shadow chancellor Ed...
View ArticleThe Rise of Rafael Correa and Ecuador, an interview with William Black, UMKC
This is a great ramble by William Black, he seems to be speaking on an extemporaneous basis. He also generally omits any reference to MMT as a ongoing alternative to the Ricardian colonial/mercantilist...
View ArticleThe Game Theoretical CEO: An Inexplicable Lawful Agent, by WilliaM K. Black...
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