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Wednesday, April 25, 2012

Athens-based “Express” Dedicates Page in Its Sunday Edition to Levy Institute Research

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The Levy Institute has announced its collaboration with the daily financial newspaperExpress, based in Athens, Greece. Beginning with its A...
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Then and now — SDS and Occupy

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A half-century after the Students for a Democratic Society adopted their seminal manifesto, 14 activists–including three people who helped ...
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Dirk Ehnts — Solidarity or extremism

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European solidarity failed in the 1930s, just as international cooperation failed. You might think that this is not a big deal, but in fact...

Josh Barro — How to Fix the Social Security Solvency Crisis for Just $49.99

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$49.99 is actually the expensive solution. It could be done just as well for ninety nine cents. Short, funny, and MMT-ish. Read it at Forb...
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Marc Theissen: A bishop’s unjust attack on Paul Ryan

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Op/Ed at the WaPo that is HOPELESSLY out of the MMT paradigm but provides a good review of where we are on fiscal.  Identifies where the G...
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Tuesday, April 24, 2012

Michael Stephens— Will Germany Break Out of the Box It Has Put Itself In?

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Dimitri Papadimitriou speculates that Germany might just end up being the eurozone country that decides it’s not worth staying in the unio...
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hbl — Macroeconomic Circular Flow Visualizer — Preview Version Available

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Here are some possible future features (these are also listed as part of the “more info” section in the visualizer). Please let me know whi...
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Michael Norton — How to buy happiness

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TEDxCambridge — Michael Norton: Money can buy happiness Harvard Business School professor Michael Norton's counterintuitive...

TEDxUHowest - Bernard Lietaer - Crisis as opportunity. Next steps.

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TEDxUHowest - Bernard Lietaer - Crisis as opportunity. Next steps. (h/t Anonymous in the comments)

Matias Vernengo— Shift happens indeed

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Matias Vernengo contrasts Popper's premise that falsification of hypotheses is paramount in science, and Kuhn's view that it is the...
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Chris Cook — Thinking the unthinkable

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  An energy standard Taken to its logical conclusion, where this policy leads is for Iran's Central Bank simply to fix a new rial - w...

Logical Fallacies

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Neil Wilson sends me this handy chart, which I am passing along. Thou Shalt Not Commit Logical Fallacies. Click on an icon for a descri...
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Yves Smith — The Hidden Bank Time Bomb: Interest Rate Risk

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At the Atlantic Economy Summit in Washington last month, Sheila Bair fielded a question about the just-released results of the latest bank...
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Henry Blodget: IT’S OFFICIAL: Keynes Was Right

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Almost correct post out today by Henry Blodget that looks at a policy of austerity vs. so-called "Keynesian" policies. Article ...
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Joe Firestone — The Insanity Isn't the Deficit Spending; It's Claiming That the Gov's Budget Is Like A Household's

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Read it at Daily Kos | Money and Public Purpose The Insanity Isn't the Deficit Spending; It's Claiming That the Gov's Budget I...
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Monday, April 23, 2012

James K. Galbraith — What’s driving inequality?

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Technology and education, says Timothy Noah. But unemployment and the rules governing wages may matter more. Read it at Salon What’s driv...

Mark Thoma — "High Tax Rates Won't Slow Growth"

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With the "taxes harm growth" and Laffer curve arguments undercut by research such as this, Republicans have fallen back on the ar...
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Washington's Blog — Confirmed: Feds Coordinating Brutal Crackdown on Occupy Protests

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Newly-Released Documents Confirm that the Department of Homeland Security and Other Federal Agencies Coordinated Violent Crackdown on Prote...
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Joe Romm — James Lovelock Finally Walks Back His Absurd Doomism

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Famed scientist James Lovelock has always been in a category of one when it comes to global warming. See for instance my June 2009 post, “L...
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John Carney — Would Guaranteed Jobs Undermine the Brooklyn Business Revolution?

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The modern monetary theory movement proposes that the government should act as an employer of last resort,guaranteeing a job to anyone who ...
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Bernard Lietaer on Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) AKA Chartalism

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Bernard Lietaer on Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) AKA Chartalism (h/t Clonal Antibody via email) "Academically MMT has no...
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More prison privatization horror!

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As states hemorrhage money they are selling off assets in an attempt to remain solvent. You can thank the Congress and current Administrati...
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MEPOC — The austerity infection now spreads to the core?

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A number of economists have argued against the austerity policies pushed by the ECB and the German, French, and Italian governments. They h...
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Josh Ryan-Collins — Credit is what Credit does

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From Berlin to Edinburgh: experts call for control of credit creation to be put at the heart of banking reform Read it at NEF The New Econ...
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Semantic Drift; Keeping All Four Wheels of Public Awareness on the Race Track

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In an  Infographic: Federal Tax Revenues  GEI reminds us of our governments habit of plotting historical linkages between GDP and tax rate...

The Arthurian — Notes on Labor

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...until unemployment falls closer to more normal levels, corporate margins do not appear vulnerable from a spike in unit labor costs. So...

60 Minutes — The case against Lehman Brothers

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Video and transcript. Read it at CBS News | 60 Minutes The case against Lehman Brothers by 60 Minutes (h/t Robert Oak at The Economic...

Stubborn Mule — Goodhart’s Law

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Read it at Stubborn Mule Goodhart’s Law by Stubborn Mule That's Charles Goodhart.

Wolfgang Münchau — The sadly unpalatable solution for the eurozone

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Read it at The Financial Times The sadly unpalatable solution for the eurozone By Wolfgang Münchau (h/t Naked Capitalism)

In Hippie Holdout, a Fight Over Worms and Moats

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Read it at The New York Times In Hippie Holdout, a Fight Over Worms and Moats by Patricia Leigh Brown (h/t The Oil Drum) Fun rea...
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