Brad DeLong — Live from Evans Hall: I would merely point out that the out-of-touch elite is not confined to the Republican Party.

Live from Evans Hall: I would merely point out that the out-of-touch elite is not confined to the Republican Party.

There are substantial elements within the Brookings-Third Way wing of the Democratic coalition that would rather cut Social Security than establish a sensible retirement-income system, and that would rather cut Medicare than improve the efficiency of health care finance and delivery, after all.…

GOP lite.

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Live from Evans Hall: I would merely point out that the out-of-touch elite is not confined to the Republican Party.

Brad DeLong | Professor of Economics, UCAL Berkeley

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Must-Read: I would beg the highly-esteemed Mark Thoma to draw a distinction here between "inappropriate" and unwise. In my view, it is not at all inappropriate for Fed Chair Janet Yellen to express her concern about excessive inequality. Previous Fed Chairs, after all, have expressed their liking for inequality as an essential engine of economic growth over and over again over the past half century--with exactly zero critical snarking from the American Enterprise Institute for trespassing beyond the boundaries of their role.

But that it is not inappropriate for Janet Yellen to do so does not mean that it is wise. Mark's argument is, I think, that given the current political situation it is unwise for Janet to further incite the ire of the nutboys in the way that even the mildest expression of concern about rising inequality will do.…

Must-Read: I would beg the highly-esteemed Mark Thoma to draw a distinction here between "inappropriate" and unwise.

Tony Cartalucci — Washington Policymakers Call for the Division, Destruction and Military Occupation of Syria

Unbeknownst to the general public, their elected politicians do not create the policy that binds their national destiny domestically or within the arena of geopolitics. Instead, corporate-financier funded think tanks do – teams of unelected policymakers which transcend elections, and which produce papers that then become the foundation of legislation rubber stamped by “legislators,” as well as the enumerated talking points repeated ad naseum by the corporate-media.

Such a policy paper has been recently written by the notorious US policy think-tank, the Brookings Institution, titled, “Deconstructing Syria: Towards a regionalized strategy for a confederal country.” The signed and dated open-conspiracy to divide, destroy, then incrementally occupy a sovereign nation thousands of miles from America’s shores serves as a sobering example of how dangerous and enduring modern imperialism is, even in the 21st century.…

World conquest proceeds apace.

BTW, Brookings is the "liberal" think tank rather than one of among many conservative ones. This befits policy under a Democratic administration. Being servants of empire is bipartisan.

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Washington Policymakers Call for the Division, Destruction and Military Occupation of Syria
Tony Cartalucci

Cross-posted from New Eastern Outlook