“Take Care of Our Own” Dammit!
The Puerto Rico natural disaster has been commented on extensively in the Press and alternative media. For example: Jeff Spross in The Week; Over the long term, Puerto Rico should […]
Neoliberalism
Should We Use the Additional Policy Space Provided by Monetary Sovereignty to Achieve the Green New Deal Before Constraining It to Guard Against Our War Hawks?
This post replies to a Facebook post by Erik Rydberg. Thanks for your facebook post. It brings out an important issue. But I agree with some of the critics that […]
What if the US Treasury Could Order the Federal Reserve to Increase the Balance in Its Spending Account Whenever it Needed to Either Spend Congressional Appropriations or Redeem Debt Instruments and Everyone Knew that It Could?
Well, it just so happens, that it can order the Federal Reserve to do that. It’s just that not everyone knows that it can. And among those that know, there […]
Don’t Follow Bernie Down the Public Option Trick Sparkle Pony Rathole
In January of 2009 the Democratic Party, having won big majorities in both Houses of Congress, took over the 111th Congress of the United States. The Democrats had very large […]
How Many Americans Will Die Needlessly Before Congress Finally Passes National Improved Medicare for All (NIMA)?
In the continuing debate about implementing a health insurance reform that works, much attention is paid to the issue of how many people have been, or are projected to be, […]
Austerity Central: The Peterson Network
It’s important for Real Progressives to “know thine enemy.” Peter G. Peterson has been an enemy of the social safety net since he first appeared in Washington, DC during the […]
Defining a Real Progressive Economic Agenda for America
This interview is about what Real Progressives ought to fight for rather than just what we ought to fight against. It is about a policy agenda supporting the dimensions of […]
Don’t You DARE Cut the Social Safety Net!
This is a Real Progressives interview on defending and expanding safety net programs, Medicare for All, negotiating with the Republicans in a way that always produces measurable and visible gains, […]
Social Security Is Not a Ponzi Scheme
This post appeared earlier under the title “Ponzi Schemes and the Ponzi Schemers.” I’m republishing it because our just confirmed Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Director is one of […]
A Meta-layer for Restoring Democracy and Open Society: Part Three, the IVCS
ByJoseph M. Firestone and Henk Hadders This is the concluding post in a three-part series. The first post highlighted the problem of lack of representativeness in modern societies, characterized human […]