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Everyone else must fail

Monday, April 10, 2017

Dean Baker rightfully calls out the Washington Post for suggesting, at one and the same time, that there is both a surplus and a shortage of workers, and that to alleviate the shortage, we should “reform” the social security disability system. At a time of unprecedented inequality, the Washington Post is quick to seize on […]

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Everyone else must fail

Sunday, June 10, 2012

  Today’s Boston Globe reports that young people are not buying homes, and that their failure to do so will have negative impacts on the economy. The article comes complete with the required profile of an atypical exemplar of the affected class of people, a young woman who, at least implicitly, actually has the ability […]

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Senatorial Follies

Saturday, January 2, 2021

The New York Times and others have reported that ten Senators have joined Hawley in pledging to vote to steal the election for Trump. The eleven are a mix of Senators with presidential ambitions and newly elected freshmen Senators. Let’s put the freshmen aside for the moment,and concentrate on the presidential aspirants. The question that […]

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A common disease of the right

Monday, October 16, 2017

Every once in a while I read something that makes me feel good, because I can honestly say I got there first, and when I see such a thing I feel I owe it to me reader or readers to point this out. Case in point, these observations from Josh Marshall regarding Trump: Going on […]

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No question it’s so, Joe

Wednesday, May 4, 2016

In case you were wondering (and you probably weren’t) what Joe Lieberman is doing these days, here’s an update courtesy of Down With Tyranny: Wall Street banksters fund No Labels to destroy Social Security, Medicare and other social services and they have decided on Lieberman and Huntsman as their new frontmen. Reactionary politics is the […]

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Yet another post on social security

Thursday, February 4, 2016

Dean Baker once again takes on the folks who are calling for means testing Social Security: Eduardo Porter had a piece this morning about how a group of academics on the left and right came together around a common agenda. It is worth briefly commenting on two of the items on which the “left” made […]

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Why the right wants to means test  Social Security

Sunday, August 9, 2015

Several years ago I attended a discussion group led by a formerly radical professor at a Swarthmore reunion (my wife went to Swarthmore). During the discussion one inquisitor, probably also a former radical, asked the good professor whether it might not be a really good idea to means test Social Security, to which the professor […]

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Krugman mostly gets it

Thursday, May 21, 2015

Blogging has been sporadic, inasmuch as my days have been spent writing at work, so by the time I get home, I can’t stand the thought of getting near a keyboard. Today was one of those days too, but I have one pathetic post in me, so why not. I read Paul Krugman’s blog religiously. […]

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Another story from the world of organized crime

Thursday, March 20, 2014

In this morning's Times, Jesse Eisinger documents yet more criminal activity on the part of Goldman Sachs. Perhaps I should amend that and say it is activity that should be criminal, if it's not already. It is an opaque deal which, even upon full explication is sort of hard to follow, but as I understand […]

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Billionaire derangement syndrome

Wednesday, February 12, 2014

Maybe Jeff Bezos made a mistake buying the Washington Post. It's entirely possible he could have spread his particular brand of propaganda far more cheaply by buying airtime on PBS. That's what a billionaire who made his money scamming people at Enron has done: On December 18th, the Public Broadcasting Service’s flagship station WNET issued […]

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