For Berniecrats: What to Do Now
With Bernie Sanders’s endorsement of Hillary Clinton has come a split among his “progressive” supporters. Some, perhaps most, say that it is time for Berniecrats to unite behind Hillary and […]
2016
Super Tuesday Didn’t Change the Democratic Party Dynamic
Bernie’s wins yesterday were certainly encouraging, while only his loss in Massachusetts was a bit of a surprise. Hillary Clinton won 7 of the 11 States at issue; but 5 […]
HRC Negatives: You Ain’t Seen Nothin’ Yet!
So, the Democratic presidential primary contests are now nearly at “Super Tuesday.” Bernie Sanders narrowly lost in Iowa, won big in New Hampshire, lost by a clear margin in Nevada, […]
Yes We Can Pay for Increasing Social Security Benefits
Or, I might add, for any other obligation the Federal government cares to honor. Some time ago, in the pages of USA Today, Duncan Black, better known to some as […]
Fixing the Debt without Breaking America: Austerity, the Trillion Dollar Coin, and Ending Debt Ceiling, Sequester, and Budgetary Crises
This book is about a counter-narrative to austerity politics. It exposes its fallacies, and, I hope, its closed-mindedness and futility. It also offers a way out of austerity politics. That […]
Riskonomics: Reducing Risk by Killing Your Worst Ideas: My New Book
About 6 years ago I stopped posting at my All Life Is Problem Solving site, and shifted my blogging over to other sites devoted to economics and politics, often blogging […]
For US Democracy: There Is Only One Choice
We need big, big changes in the United States. Many of them will require the Federal Government to spend unprecedented amounts, including deficit spending to enable us to solve problems […]
Real Fiscal Responsibility, Vol. II: The Peterson Network, Inequality, and the Failure of Neoliberalism
This is how the mission of the President’s National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform was defined by the White House on February 18, 2010: The Commission is charged with […]
An Excerpt from Real Fiscal Responsibility, Vol I: the Progressive Give-up Formula
Below is an excerpt from my most recent e-book: Real Fiscal Responsibility, Vol. I: The Progressive Give-up Formula. The book is volume I of II critiquing austerity politics at the […]
Fiscal Myths of Campaign 2016: A New Kindle e-Book
Most of the world, and most notably the United States, are in the grip of fiscal myths fostered by the ideology of neoliberalism. There is virtual unanimity across the major […]