Tuesday, June 30, 2015

Everything You Need To Know About The Greek Problem In Europe

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This article, by an economist from the Booth school at the University of Chicago, does a nice job of describing the debt problems in Greece ...

The US Chamber Of Commerce As A Global Pro-Cancer Organization

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The US Chamber of Commerce has subsidiaries across the globe.  It is the largest lobby organization in the world.  This article describes th...
Thursday, June 25, 2015

How The GOP Supports Predation In Education

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Predatory animals prey on the weak and the unprotected.  The target market for predatory educational institutions are poor students who are...
Tuesday, June 23, 2015

Why Small Booms Can Produce Outsized Economic Downturns

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Brad DeLong argues that over investment in housing during the real estate boom was small relative to the size of the global economy.  He att...
Sunday, June 21, 2015

How Climate Change Denialists Attempted To Block Pope's Encyclical On Climate Change

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Conservatives within, and outside of the church, were defeated in their efforts to influence the Pope's encyclical on climate change.  T...
Saturday, June 20, 2015

Why Do Conservative Politicians Pretend To Be Business Leaders?

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Paul Krugman picks on Jeb Bush (who wants to called Jeb) to make a good point .  Jeb is trying to sell himself to the electorate by claimin...
Friday, June 19, 2015

The Pope's Encyclical On Climate Change

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The quote below is the final comment in the New York Times summary of the Pope's encyclical on climate change. “All is not lost,” he...