The movement is losing ground not because the issues it raises are unimportant, but rather because the great majority of Americans and those in other countries with Occupy groups do not sympathize with most of the people doing the occupying...
2013 could begin a transformative period in American policy making...That will be then. This is now. And, for now, don’t expect much in way of legislation that could seriously address our real and mounting economic problems...
Advocacy groups repeat over and over that 16.2 million children (one in five) “struggle with hunger in the United States”...Where does the one-in-five figure come from and what does it really measure...?
One standard narrative of the cause of the financial crisis coming from people generally on the left is that a free-market ideology blinded policy-makers...What this narrative ignores are other government policies that raised the likelihood of irresponsible investing...
He offers us the most peculiar of gifts—the right to stay on indefinitely, shore up his regime, and pour our scarce treasure for his family and retainers. That Afghan lion doesn’t make its own kills...
I did research on nominal GDP targeting many years ago and found that such targeting proposals had a number of problems...Although much has changed in the past quarter century I find many of the same problems with the recent proposals...
Finally, the administration has spoken clearly, directly, and with direct references to consequences–a veto–about the detainee provisions of the NDAA...
