Monday: Structural unemployment is a lie

It’s bullshit. For those of you scratching your heads, it’s the idea that the reason so many people are unemployed is because they don’t have the right skills, education and technological training or they’re located in the wrong places in the country. I can only imagine the titans of industry at the job junkets where [...]

The Occupy Handbook: The Great Recession

This econ dude from Princeton, his econ wife and some other people (including Matt Taibbi), wrote an economic field guide called The Occupy Handbook for the Occupy Movement and published it.  Salon has posted the first chapter called Economy Killers: Inequality and GOP Ignorance.  Go check it out. The official publication date is tomorrow, April [...]

Tuesday: Clearing the Instapaper Queue

Let’s see, what have we got in there today: 1.) How useless is marketing?  Let me count the ways.  I went into Lowes the other day to buy some molding for my generic builder’s grade bathroom mirror.  The guy showed me *one* profile that would fit my mirror.  One.  I told him it was too [...]

Monday: Hungary, Occupy Congress and other stuff

This morning, Paul Krugman had a guest poster, Kim Lane Scheppele, to explain what is going on in Hungary.  Remember how excited we were 20 years ago when Hungary escaped the tyrannical clutches of Communism?  Unfortunately, they have fallen into the hands of what looks like fascism: In a free and fair election last spring [...]

Tuesday: Exasperation

Update:  I didn’t know this but today is “Pay a Blogger” day.  Jeez, is it that time again?  It seems like it comes earlier and earlier each year.  We now have a button in the left sidebar but it may disappear and reappear randomly.  Zhat vay, ve vill train you to hit zhe bar vhen [...]

Monday, Monday

Lots of stuff to do today so I’ll try to make this brief. I saw this video from Bill Black at Naked Capitalism yesterday.  He has three practical demands that OccupyWallStreet should consider.  They are: 1.) Jobs Now 2.) Stop the foreclosures 3.) Jail the bankers The jobs part got my attention because it makes [...]

Friday, Friday! Gotta get down on Friday!

Let’s take a turn around the internet , shall we Miss Bennett? Someone, beside *me*, really has it in for Jon Corzine.  The story about MF Global has been on the frontpage of the NYTimes every day this week.  In some cases, there have been several stories per day.  The one from yesterday was especially [...]

Yeah, why *did* we do that?

There is some convergence about why we slit our own throats to protect the bankers that is starting to gel in some thought provoking ways. First up, if you haven’t read it yet today, is Krugman’s Friday column in the NYTimes from Iceland.  By the way, to get a better idea of what happened in [...]

What’s wrong with this picture?

The NYTimes had an article yesterday about Indian college students attending American schools.  But something about this just doesn’t sound right: NEW DELHI — Moulshri Mohan was an excellent student at one of the top private high schools in New Delhi. When she applied to colleges, she received scholarship offers of $20,000 from Dartmouth and [...]

The trickle down effects of malignant morality

Two posts at the NYTimes illustrate the effects of what I like to call Malignant Christianity on the Republican base. First up, Pat Robertson of 700 Club fame, recently said it was Ok for a man to divorce his wife if she had Alzheimer’s disease in order to get with a different woman. From the [...]