Tag Archives: Economics

Bruce Melton : I Want a Sequestration Machine for Christmas!

Posted on December 23, 2010 by Thorne Dreyer

Photo by Bruce Melton / The Rag Blog.Climate intrigue and a change in prosperity:I want a sequestration machine for Christmas By Bruce Melton / The Rag Blog / December 23, 2010 Climate change is not just another dangerous dead-end road … Continue reading →

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Sid Eschenbach : Why Obama Took the Deal

Posted on December 15, 2010 by Thorne Dreyer

Cartoon from Huffington Post.The myth about jobs and taxes,and why Obama took the deal By Sid Eschenbach / The Rag Blog / December 14, 2010 With little time left in this Congressional session, legislative scheduling should be focused on these … Continue reading →

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Alex Knight : Zombie-Marxism II: What Marx Got Right

Posted on November 16, 2010 by Thorne Dreyer

Writ in stone? Image from RalphMag.Zombie-Marxism II:What Marx got right Why Marxism has failed, andwhy Zombie-Marxism cannot die (Or, ‘My rocky relationship with Grampa Karl’) By Alex Knight / The Rag Blog / November 16, 2010 This is the second … Continue reading →

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Harry Targ : The 2010 Elections and the Battle of Ideas

Posted on November 12, 2010 by Thorne Dreyer

Image from UCAN.Assessing the 2010 elections:Towards building a progressive majority First, we need to communicate the basic proposition that the free marketers’ ideas do not make sense. By Harry Targ / The Rag Blog / November 11, 2010 “Well, the … Continue reading →

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Alex Knight : Zombie-Marxism I: My Rocky Relationship with Grampa Karl

Posted on November 5, 2010 by Thorne Dreyer

Image by Germ Ross / artnoise.net.Zombie-Marxism I: Why Marxism has failed, andwhy Zombie-Marxism cannot die…(Or, ‘My rocky relationship with Grampa Karl’) By Alex Knight / The Rag Blog / November 5, 2010 “The tradition of all dead generations weighs like … Continue reading →

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Roger Baker : Fed’s $2 Trillion Won’t Buy Much

Posted on October 14, 2010 by Thorne Dreyer

Cartoon from Black Commentator.Time to reboot?Fed’s big bucks may be drops in bucket By Roger Baker / The Rag Blog / October 14, 2010 As is often the case, Bloomberg tells it like it is, although a little interpretation is … Continue reading →

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Ted McLaughlin : Our Fear of the ‘S’ Word

Posted on October 12, 2010 by Thorne Dreyer

Graphic from gapingvoid.Do the American people like socialismas long as we don’t call it that? By Ted McLaughlin / The Rag Blog / October 11, 2010 There is little doubt that for most Americans, “socialist” would be about the worst … Continue reading →

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Roger Baker : ‘Peak Food’ Next Global Crisis?

Posted on September 23, 2010 by Thorne Dreyer

Image from Care2.The next global crisis:Will ‘peak food’ follow ‘peak oil’? By Roger Baker / The Rag Blog / September 23, 2010 Will we soon experience a global peak in food production, similar to peak oil? It is too difficult … Continue reading →

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Roger Baker : Is Marx Still Relevant?

Posted on August 11, 2010 by Thorne Dreyer

Image from The Great Illuminator.Confessions of a neo-Marxist:Why Marx still matters By Roger Baker / The Rag Blog / August 10, 2010 I suppose I might now call myself a neo-Marxist. This is not to argue that Marx does not … Continue reading →

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Harry Targ : Higher Education Headed in Wrong Direction

Posted on August 2, 2010 by Thorne Dreyer

Editorial cartoon by Mark Weber / iHaveNet.21st Century higher education:An institution in crisis By Harry Targ / The Rag Blog / August 1, 2010 The modern university At my home university, only Coca-Cola products can be distributed on campus as … Continue reading →

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Distribution of Wealth : Way Out of Whack

Posted on July 15, 2010 by Thorne Dreyer

Image from OECD / CBS News.Trickle UP theory:The recession and its roots By Ted McLaughlin / The Rag Blog / July 15, 2010 Have you ever wondered just what caused the deep recession that the United States is in? Many … Continue reading →

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Conservative Economics : Just Plain Loco

Posted on July 9, 2010 by Thorne Dreyer

Cartoon by Daryl Cagle / MSNBC.Still trickling after all these years…The insanity of conservative economics By Ted McLaughlin / The Rag Blog / July 9, 2010 Like a bunch of lemmings following each other over a cliff to disaster, conservative … Continue reading →

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