It’s wonk city, folks. If you don’t have any patience, don’t read on. But if you don’t read on, don’t blame us if the Peterson-Pew Commission takes your retirement and your medicine and leaves you with $5.00 gasoline in three years. Look, finance really isn’t complicated. If you want to work out the financing for [...]
Entries Tagged as 'manufacturing'
Fixing the Economy and the Budget–for the People
June 29th, 2010 · Comments Off · Capitalism, Economics, jobs, Politics, taxes, Wall Street
Tags: Bush's national debt·Clinton economy·deficits·increases in the national debt·job creation·job losses to outsourcing abroad·manufacturing·structural deficits·tariffs·trillion-dollar deficits
May 1910 to May 2010–100 Years of…Progress?
May 7th, 2010 · Comments Off · Corporations and Industry, Culture, Economics, General, Politics, Populism, Wall Street, wars and militarism
By 1910, the United States had changed from a collection of states along the Atlantic Coast and a group of Southern slavery states to an emerging nation spreading across the entire continent. There were only three major cities: New York, Chicago and Philadelphia with over a million population. There were half a dozen other metropolitan [...]
Tags: American history·corporations·economic history·Economics·history·income distribution·income inequality·manufacturing·Medicare·political history·Politics·Social Security·taxation·taxes·unions
It’s About Jobs…and the Economy…and How We Got Here!
January 26th, 2010 · Comments Off · Economics, jobs, Politics
Americans need jobs. Yes, you can say that the Gross National Product has increased a certain amount or fallen back a certain amount. You can say that our exports have risen as a percentage of our Gross National Product. You can say that the index of home values has risen against the year-over-year index. You [...]
Tags: Add new tag·Bush tax cuts·government spending·jobs·manufacturing·national debt·stimulus·the economy