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Brad DeLong's five percent solution... (2)
CONTINUED FROM HERE Since you have now exhausted your capacity to absorb any more debt in the run up to this Great Recession, Brad Delong has a solution: It is time to max out the credit limit of the … more →
Re: The People
Brad DeLong's five percent solution... (2)
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charley2u wrote 1 week ago: CONTINUED FROM HERE Since you have now exhausted your capacity to absorb any more debt in the run up … more →
Why beat a straw man when you have Larry Summers?
charley2u wrote 2 weeks ago: “I think we got the Recovery Act right,” Larry Summers, the president’s chief economic adviser, said … more →
The Obama Jobs Summit: Grate Expectations
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charley2u wrote 2 weeks ago: Governor William J. Le Petomane: We have to protect our phoney baloney jobs here, gentlemen! We must … more →
Saint Paul's conversion...
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charley2u wrote 2 weeks ago: Paul Krugman is officially off our shit list: … [W]e could have policies that support private- … more →
Why unemployment is ignored by Washington...
charley2u wrote 3 weeks ago: An interesting exchange with Larry Summers, the shithead who advises the Messiah on issues of unempl … more →
Someone else who gets it...
charley2u wrote 3 weeks ago: Over on Naked Capitalism the blogger, George Washington, continues on the theme we have written been … more →
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 →
A moment of stunned silence...
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charley2u wrote 1 month ago: MSNBC’s Hardball with Chris Matthews show was the scene of an uncomfortable pause when Jim Cra … more →
Econospeak: Shorter Working Time at Work
charley2u wrote 1 month ago: We wanted to show this to you, because we believe it will be important in the coming months as unemp … more →
Sandwichman's untimely demise - UPDATED
charley2u wrote 1 month ago: Sandwichman, the reliable voice for reducing hours of work at Econospeak, has met his untimely end, … more →
Nothing's working, and neither are a growing number of us...
charley2u wrote 2 months ago: The pictures are beginning to get quite ugly. The labor force continues to shrink: It is now about t … more →
Why didn’t capitalism collapse in 1929? (Final)
charley2u wrote 2 months ago: Continued from here If we try to reconstruct the underlying events leading to the Great depression a … more →
Why didn’t capitalism collapse in 1929? (Part three)
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charley2u wrote 2 months ago: Continued from here The great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity (click to expand) If … more →
Why didn't capitalism collapse in 1929? (Part two)
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charley2u wrote 2 months ago: Continued from here The oddest statement to be found in Grossman’s reconstruction of Karl Marx … more →
Why didn't capitalism collapse in 1929?
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charley2u wrote 2 months ago: We have spent the past few weeks trying to absorb an essay, written by Henryk Grossman on the eve of … more →
Don't count on a replay of the Great Depression...
charley2u wrote 2 months ago: We are trying to figure out what of the criticism we leveled at Paul Krugman is relevant, and what i … more →
Still more notes on the delveraging economy:
charley2u wrote 3 months ago: What we have written here is all speculation based on our understanding of how the economy works. Pl … more →
More notes on the deleveraging economy...
charley2u wrote 3 months ago: The leverage we speak of is that set against your free time, your time to be human, your moments on … more →
Notes on the deleveraging economy...
charley2u wrote 3 months ago: In a previous post we pointed out that the expansion of superfluous working time was achieved by the … more →
