Friday, December 27, 2013

Talking to My Congressional Delegation on Unemployment Insurance

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I live in Washington state, have been out of work for nearly ay year, and the unemployment extension will expire on my birthday. Thanks,...
Thursday, December 26, 2013

"A depressed economy for workers, but not at all for corporations"

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Notes on a Krugman post, " Why Corporations Might Not Mind Moderate Depression " (NYT paywall, Edited from my remarks over there.)...
Saturday, December 21, 2013

Bitcoin and the unregulated economy or wtf, libertarians, again?

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More from the Bitcoin discussion. What is it with libertarians? We live in a world in unregulated trading has crashed the global economy...
Friday, December 20, 2013

Bitcoin—Troll's Gold

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It's troll's gold—a curse to the holder, and to those who desire it. It's deflationary, which means it's an inherently poor ...
Friday, December 13, 2013

The Budget Deal: Not Even A Fight

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My unemployment insurance will expire on my birthday. The budget deal that I am hearing praised? The Democrats didn't even put up a figh...
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Thursday, November 14, 2013

On the Landrieu/Obama "keep your bad insurance" plan

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Wouldn’t it be better to fix the PPACA cost issues? I don’t think there would be many objections if the cancelled plans were replaced with ...
Tuesday, November 12, 2013

On the LAX Shootings, to a libertarian

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Originally posted elsenet: If the country is saturated with ideas like "Taking up arms against an authoritarian government is a mora...