tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2761684730989137546.post4708067455114413981..comments2024-03-28T20:28:01.733-04:00Comments on Mike Norman Economics: Peter Radford — Moving Onmike normanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03296006882513340747noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2761684730989137546.post-30646104073177939692014-04-24T01:00:51.016-04:002014-04-24T01:00:51.016-04:00I'm not seeing NEARLY as many "USA is goi...I'm not seeing NEARLY as many "USA is goin' broke, how'rwee gunna pay back China" articles, editorials, etc. making the newsfeeds as of late. <br /><br />Seems like the neocons are starting to run out of cons.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2761684730989137546.post-45773871683218034282014-04-23T21:37:36.192-04:002014-04-23T21:37:36.192-04:00Piketty's book is the hammer that finally brok...<i>Piketty's book is the hammer that finally broke the ice, but usually these kinds of change only happen when a lot of other stuff has weakened the ice beforehand.</i><br /><br />The <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butterfly_effect" rel="nofollow">butterfly effect in catastrophe theory.</a><br /><br />Krugman is really piling in now. He has a recent blog up about the government as household analogy, too, behind the NYT paywall.Tom Hickeyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08454222098667643650noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2761684730989137546.post-50156732447056848702014-04-23T20:58:20.101-04:002014-04-23T20:58:20.101-04:00The thing that seems to have changed, and I admit ...The thing that seems to have changed, and I admit that the forces behind it are a total mystery to me, is that the centrist mainstream is suddenly willing to talk about a bunch of issues that even a year ago were taboo for them, and the preserve of only people they derided as far left cranks. And it turns out they have a lot of things to say about these issues that they were apparently storing up.<br /><br />It's not just Piketty. Piketty's books is the hammer that finally broke the ice, but usually these kinds of change only happen when a lot of other stuff has weakened the ice beforehand.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com