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The 1 Percent’s Solution - NYTimes.com

kubla wrote 4 weeks ago: Thus, the average American is somewhat worried about budget deficits, which is no surprise given the … more →

Tags: Economy, Inequality, austerity, Depression

Simon Johnson: Big Banks Have a Big Problem - NYTimes.com

kubla wrote 2 months ago: Attorney General Eric Holder’s testimony to Congress last week also confirmed the latter point: some … more →

Tags: CorpState, Politics, Banks, federal reserve, regulation

Occupy Offshoot Aims to Erase People’s Debts - NYTimes.com

kubla wrote 6 months ago: The group, an offshoot of the Occupy Wall Street movement called Strike Debt, is trying to buy some … more →

Tags: Economy, Great Rebalancing, Great Revaluing, Inequality, Occupy Wall Street, Debt, occupy, #occupywallstreet

Political Connections: Lafayette to Montpelier

kubla wrote 8 months ago: On the one hand I’m involved in projects in my neighborhood (Lafayette in Jersey City, NJ), most not … more →

Tags: Great Localization, Great Reskilling, Great Transition, Politics, Resilience, sharing networking, Charlie Keil, jersey city, second vermont republic

Celebrating the Future Independence of Vermont, at the Vermont Statehouse in Montpelier: Toward a Politics of Jubilee1 comment

kubla wrote 8 months ago: I spent Friday, 14 September in and around the Vermont Statehouse. Sometime back in the mists of his … more →

Tags: Great Localization, Great Reskilling, Great Revaluing, Great Transition, Photo (2), Politics, Resilience, subsidiarity, Charlie Keil

Worker Ownership For the 21st Century? | The Nation

kubla wrote 1 year ago: It may not be the revolution’s dawn, but it’s certainly a glint in the darkness. On Monday, this cou … more →

Tags: Economy, Great Economic Irrigation, Great Reskilling, Positive Visioning, Mondragon, Steel, Unions, united steel workers

Too Big To Fail: The First 5000 Years — Crooked Timber

kubla wrote 1 year ago: This is from the ‘middle’ (I suspect) of an ongoing conversation which I don’t hav … more →

Tags: Economy

Innovations in Light - NYTimes.com

kubla wrote 1 year ago: Some fascinating stuff here about getting lighting without the overhead of the grid: If you look at … more →

Tags: Climate Environment, Great Rebalancing, lighting, Africa

Apple makes good products but flawed arguments | Prestowitz

kubla wrote 1 year ago: Concerning the recent NYTimes article that argued that Apple has no choice by to manufacture in Chin … more →

Tags: Great Localization, Great Reskilling

AP Interview: Davos Forum founder says capitalism is out of balance, warns conflicts await - The Washington Post

kubla wrote 1 year ago: DAVOS, Switzerland — Capitalism is out of whack, the founder of the World Economic Forum says, welco … more →

Tags: CorpState, Economy, Great Revaluing, Inequality, Davos

Urban gardens: The future of food? - Dream City - Salon.com

kubla wrote 1 year ago: Gotham Greens is a 15,000-square-foot hydroponic farm on the roof of a Brooklyn warehouse. It had it … more →

Tags: Great Localization, Cities, Agriculture

Colorado - Boulder Votes to Remove Power Company - NYTimes.com

kubla wrote 1 year ago: It’s called LOCALIZATION. It’s called TAKING CONTROL of your life. It’s the FUTURE … more →

Tags: subsidiarity, Great Localization, Resilience, Power and Energy, Boulder, Colorado

He Made It on Wall St. and Used It to Help Start Protests - NYTimes.com

kubla wrote 1 year ago: But Mr. Halper, a 52-year-old Brooklyn native, never reveals two facts about himself: he is a former … more →

Tags: Great Revaluing, Occupy Wall Street

The recession that never left - U.S. Economy - Salon.com

kubla wrote 1 year ago: On Monday, Citigroup reported its seventh consecutive quarterly profit, registering $3.8 billion in … more →

Tags: inequality

Amazing Charts Show How 90% Of The Country Has Gotten Shafted Over The Past 30 Years...

kubla wrote 1 year ago: Basically, the charts show that, starting in the early 1980s, a 60-year trend changed, and most of t … more →

Tags: Good Information, Good Decisions, inequality

Percentiles — Crooked Timber

kubla wrote 1 year ago: I’m now much more sympathetic to the ‘99 per cent’ analysis. First, a closer look at income growth f … more →

Tags: Great Economic Irrigation, Great Revaluing, Occupy Wall Street, 99

Dems backing Occupy Wall St. are funded by Wall St. - Occupy Wall Street - Salon.com

kubla wrote 1 year ago: Ah, yes, life is complicated. And ideological purity is the enemhy of people who want to get things … more →

Tags: Great Revaluing, Politics, Occupy Wall Street

The Great 8: Billionaires who will pay more - Patriotic Billionaire Challenge - Salon.com1 comment

kubla wrote 1 year ago: Aka Cheapskates Rise to the Top Salon queried the Forbes 400 richest on whether they’d be will … more →

Tags: Great Revaluing, Politics, taxes, Wealth, Forbes 400 Richest

Panic of the Plutocrats - NYTimes.com

kubla wrote 1 year ago: What’s going on here? The answer, surely, is that Wall Street’s Masters of the Universe realize, dee … more →

Tags: Great Revaluing, Politics


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