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
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 12A paper justifying international austerity measures had a couple of mistakes that totally undermine its argument
Wednesday, Apr 17, 2013 11:45 AM UTC 73The GOP all-star is far from a moderate -- he's a social progressive's worst nightmare
Tuesday, Apr 9, 2013 5:23 PM UTC 16Government programs like the Works Progress Administration offer a blueprint to fix our fractured economy
Tuesday, Apr 9, 2013 4:37 PM UTCFormer budget director David Stockman makes outlandish calls for a divorce from the market and the state
Thursday, Apr 4, 2013 5:08 PM UTC 25Historian Daniel Steadman Jones traces the origins of the right's fascination with privatization and deregulation
Saturday, Mar 9, 2013 2:00 PM UTC 54When 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 65The 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 13The “original sin” of the Southern political class is cheap, powerless labor
Tuesday, Feb 19, 2013 7:59 PM UTC 122Because everyone hates them
Monday, Feb 18, 2013 8:09 PM UTC 44Boehner's argument is rebuffed by economists, who note that the small hike will not mean less employment
Thursday, Feb 14, 2013 6:23 PM UTCStatistics show that when unemployment is up, minorities and the undereducated are hit especially hard
Friday, Feb 8, 2013 8:50 PM UTCJon Stewart fires back at New York Times columnist Paul Krugman for calling him lazy VIDEO
Tuesday, Jan 15, 2013 3:47 PM UTC 33The British class system looks frighteningly rigid in "56 Up." But is America any better?
Sunday, Jan 13, 2013 5:00 PM UTC 18It'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 26Economists admit that they failed to see how huge cuts would undermine growth in countries like Greece
Friday, Jan 4, 2013 9:13 PM UTC 16Journalists and commentators offer nuggets of humor and confusion as a deal is not nigh
Friday, Dec 28, 2012 4:17 PM UTCTonight's lottery is up to $500 million. Guess whose money is going into the pot?
Wednesday, Nov 28, 2012 3:12 PM UTC 15French government says it is just a matter of time before economic reforms bear fruit VIDEO
Tuesday, Nov 20, 2012 3:51 PM UTCAre you sad because you're broke, or broke because you're sad?
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