When I talk about money all you see is the struggle
September 16th, 2011 | Published in Uncategorized
Consider these as you reflect on this week’s anniversary of 9/13:
A little knowledge (about politics) is a dangerous thing.
The European Central Bank was in the running to win Upper Class Twit of the Year as a collective, but this week Jürgen Stark gets the prize as an individual.
Fiscal stimulus vigilante watch: “The insistence that fiscal consolidation is necessary in the longer term . . . is both lacking in decency and irresponsible.”
More on why you can’t fix the economy just with monetary policy, and you instead need debt relief for households and deficit spending by the state. See also JW Mason for a techier rendition of similar points. I hope to weave this into some longer writing about the liberal vs. left vs. right debate in macroeconomics, for which today’s “capital strike” post was a down payment.
OMG, grocery stores are subliminally manipulating our desires! Same as it ever was.
The Great American Jobs Machine is now a broken-down hooptie.
Student loan debt default rates are getting ridiculous.
Interracial marriage: unthinkable when my father was a kid, controversial when I was a kid, taken for granted now. Yes, homophobes, it gets worse.
It’s unclear to me how much my audience overlaps with the group of people who already know that Sam McPheeters is awesome. This is his latest but start with this or this.