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The abolition of work and The Overton Window

charley2u wrote 1 day ago: Tom Walker has floated a question that deserve consideration. The question comes in the form of a qu … more →

Tags: General Comment, shorter work time, Economic Collapse, Great Depression, NSC-68, Overton window, Political Economy, recession, shorter work week

Unemployment: The bizarre prescription of L. Randall Wray – After note

charley2u wrote 1 week ago: It struck us this morning, after re-reading this series of posts, that none of our arguments need ha … more →

Tags: Economics, Political Economy, shorter work time, Economic Policy, The Economy, trickle down economics, federal reserve, financial crisis, trade deficit

Unemployment: The bizarre prescription of L. Randall Wray – Final2 comments

charley2u wrote 1 week ago: CONTINUED FROM HERE In order to really judge the astonishing lack of honesty in L. Randall Wray … more →

Tags: Economics, Political Economy, shorter work time, budget deficit, budget surplus, current account deficit, Depression, Economic Collapse, Economic Policy

Unemployment: The bizarre prescription of L. Randall Wray – Part 3

charley2u wrote 1 week ago: CONTINUED FROM HERE The question, of course, is not whether the Reagan budget deficit produced the f … more →

Tags: Political Economy, shorter work time, budget deficit, budget surplus, current account deficit, Depression, Economic Collapse, Economic Policy, federal reserve

Unemployment: The bizarre prescription of L. Randall Wray - Part 2

charley2u wrote 1 week ago: Department of the Treasury, Washington, D.C. CONTINUED FROM HERE In L. Randall Wray’s model of … more →

Tags: Economics, Political Economy, shorter work time, budget deficit, budget surplus, current account deficit, Depression, Economic Collapse, Economic Policy

Unemployment: The bizarre prescription of L. Randall Wray

charley2u wrote 1 week ago: In 2005, L. Randall Wray published a working paper critical of Alan Greenspan, and, by extension, of … more →

Tags: Economics, Political Economy, shorter work time, Economic Policy, The Economy, trickle down economics, federal reserve, financial crisis, trade deficit

Wikileaks: Releasing secret documents on interrogations

charley2u wrote 2 weeks ago: Wikileaks has just released this announcement: Destruction of US interrogation tapes: in a few days … more →

Tags: Off-Blog, NSC-68, War

"There stirs in Americans today a haunting sense of insecurity..."

charley2u wrote 2 weeks ago: In fitting tribute to the Messiah’s new shovel ready jobs program which is to be rolled out th … more →

Tags: Off-Blog, Afghanistan, Barack Obama, Economic Policy, Eisenhower, federal reserve, Inflation, iraq, leon keyserling

The vague odor of failure and defeat...2 comments

charley2u wrote 2 weeks ago: Leon Keyserling’s bastard offspring know they are losing the debate over unemployment and how … more →

Tags: Economics, NSC-68, Economic Policy, Barack Obama, War, War on Iraq, trickle down economics, recession, financial crisis

Brad DeLong's five percent solution... (2)3 comments

charley2u wrote 3 weeks ago: CONTINUED FROM HERE Since you have now exhausted your capacity to absorb any more debt in the run up … more →

Tags: Economics, Politics, Political Economy, shorter work time, NSC-68, Economic Policy, War, shorter work week, trickle down economics

Brad DeLong's five percent solution...1 comment

charley2u wrote 3 weeks ago: Brad DeLong thinks there is about a five percent chance we will see a second Great Depression and th … more →

Tags: Economics, Political Economy, Economic Policy, The Economy, federal reserve, recession, financial crisis, trade deficit, current account deficit

16 over Ten, 12 over Eleven, and 6 over Twelve...

charley2u wrote 3 weeks ago: (Click for larger image) Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics … more →

Tags: Political Economy, financial crisis, Economic Collapse, Unemployment

Richard Trumka: How a tired old union hack misses the point completely2 comments

charley2u wrote 3 weeks ago: Once upon a time, the union boss was hated and feared on Wall Street, now he or she is just ridicule … more →

Tags: Off-Blog, Political Economy, NSC-68, War on Iraq, National Secuirty, National Security Council, National Security Council Memorandum, recession, financial crisis

Death spiral...

charley2u wrote 4 weeks ago: Proctor & Gamble, China A good piece by Robert Reich on the dilemma of the US-China relationship … more →

Tags: Off-Blog, current account deficit, China, GM, Unemployment, Robert Reich, Chrysler, Proctor and Gamble

The Great Lie: Jobs and economic growth4 comments

charley2u wrote 1 month ago: It is the LIE that killed Detroit. It is killing California. It is killing Florida. It is killing Pu … more →

Tags: General Comment, Political Economy, Economic Policy, Barack Obama, shorter work week, The Economy, trickle down economics, Economy, federal reserve

Why unemployment is ignored by Washington...

charley2u wrote 1 month ago: An interesting exchange with Larry Summers, the shithead who advises the Messiah on issues of unempl … more →

Tags: Economics, Political Economy, shorter work time, NSC-68, Barack Obama, shorter work week, trickle down economics, federal reserve, recession

Someone else who gets it...

charley2u wrote 1 month ago: Over on Naked Capitalism the blogger, George Washington, continues on the theme we have written been … more →

Tags: Off-Blog, shorter work time, shorter work week, The Economy, trickle down economics, recession, wall street crisis, Economic Collapse, Unemployment

Dean Baker: Cure for unemployment? Work shorter hours

charley2u wrote 1 month ago: The movement to reduce hours of work is bubbling up from the underground. From Dean Baker, Co-direct … more →

Tags: Off-Blog, shorter work time, Economic Policy, The Economy, Economic Collapse, Depression, Unemployment

A moment of stunned silence...3 comments

charley2u wrote 1 month ago: MSNBC’s Hardball with Chris Matthews show was the scene of an uncomfortable pause when Jim Cra … more →

Tags: Off-Blog, shorter work time, Barack Obama, shorter work week, trickle down economics, recession, financial crisis, wall street crisis, Great Depression


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