Kinsley loves austerity because it is “spinach”
The liberal pundit supports a worthless international initiative
Friday, May 17, 2013 12:59 PM UTC 76Media Opening Shot, Michael Kinsley
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Media Opening Shot, Michael Kinsley
Study: Muscle men more politically conservative
Researchers in Denmark report a relationship between bicep size and support for progressive economic policies VIDEO
Thursday, May 16, 2013 3:32 PM UTC 13Social Video, Science, Wealth, rich people
World debt is 313 percent of global GDP
Emerging markets are gathering debt to drive development, but debt per capita in developed economies still dwarfs
Monday, May 13, 2013 2:42 PM UTCBusiness Debt, GDP, capital, ING, economy
Harvard professor issues “an unqualified apology” for anti-gay comments
Niall Ferguson ignited a controversy when he suggested Keynes' philosophy was flawed due to his being gay
Sunday, May 5, 2013 5:09 PM UTC 56Media Harvard, gay bashing, Homophobia
Austerity opposition goes mainstream
Bad data, dodgy assumptions and a basic inability to use Microsoft Excel may have doomed the economic movement
Saturday, Apr 27, 2013 3:00 PM UTC 12Politics Jacobin, Economics, Austerity
Whoops! Turns out debt doesn’t ruin economies
A paper justifying international austerity measures had a couple of mistakes that totally undermine its argument
Wednesday, Apr 17, 2013 11:45 AM UTC 73Media Opening Shot, Debt, Austerity
Liberals should fear Chris Christie
The GOP all-star is far from a moderate -- he's a social progressive's worst nightmare
Tuesday, Apr 9, 2013 5:23 PM UTC 16Politics AlterNet, Scott Walker
Can the Great Depression help solve our unemployment crisis?
Government programs like the Works Progress Administration offer a blueprint to fix our fractured economy
Tuesday, Apr 9, 2013 4:37 PM UTCPolitics Next New Deal, Economics
Reagan aide disqualifies himself from the conversation
Former budget director David Stockman makes outlandish calls for a divorce from the market and the state
Thursday, Apr 4, 2013 5:08 PM UTC 25Politics The Century Foundation
When neoliberalism exploded
Historian Daniel Steadman Jones traces the origins of the right's fascination with privatization and deregulation
Saturday, Mar 9, 2013 2:00 PM UTC 54Entertainment LA Review of Books, Books, essay
The politician vs. the economist
When Morning Joe debated a Nobel Prize winner, the economist was unprepared for the politician's aggressive style
Tuesday, Mar 5, 2013 1:00 PM UTC 65Politics Paul Krugman, Joe Scarborough
Living in a “post-work” society
The vision of a "post-work" world involves more part-time jobs and shorter hours. Sounds good? Not to conservatives
Tuesday, Feb 26, 2013 4:31 PM UTC 13Politics Jacobin, Economics, Labor
Southern poverty pimps
The “original sin” of the Southern political class is cheap, powerless labor
Tuesday, Feb 19, 2013 7:59 PM UTC 122Politics The South, Economics, Poverty
Why don’t people want to elect economists to run stuff?
Because everyone hates them
Monday, Feb 18, 2013 8:09 PM UTC 44Politics Politics, Economics, Science
Economists: A $9 minimum wage won’t hurt jobs
Boehner's argument is rebuffed by economists, who note that the small hike will not mean less employment
Thursday, Feb 14, 2013 6:23 PM UTCBusiness John Boehner, Barack Oba
Not all unemployment rates are created equal
Statistics show that when unemployment is up, minorities and the undereducated are hit especially hard
Friday, Feb 8, 2013 8:50 PM UTCBusiness Jared Bernstein, Economics
Must-see morning clip
Jon Stewart fires back at New York Times columnist Paul Krugman for calling him lazy VIDEO
Tuesday, Jan 15, 2013 3:47 PM UTC 33News Video, Must see morning clip
The brutal truth about how childhood determines your economic destiny
The British class system looks frighteningly rigid in "56 Up." But is America any better?
Sunday, Jan 13, 2013 5:00 PM UTC 18Entertainment AlterNet, 56 Up, Britain, Economics
Help us, Nate Silver!
It's what we do with statistics that matters: Just ask the math geeks whose fancy models tanked the global economy
Sunday, Jan 6, 2013 5:00 PM UTC 26News Books, Economics, Great Recession
IMF economists apologize for austerity forecasts
Economists admit that they failed to see how huge cuts would undermine growth in countries like Greece
Friday, Jan 4, 2013 9:13 PM UTC 16News IMF, Austerity, Fiscal cliff
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How right-wingers use semantic tricks to kill government -- "...much of the U.S. economic security support system consists of subsidies for the affluent in the form of tax breaks, like those for private retirement savings plans such as 401(k)s and private employer-provided health insurance."
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