 Why Joe Biden's Economic Plan Includes Home Health Care, Not Just Roads And Bridges Biden’s caregiving proposal would likely represent the single largest investment in home- and community-based services for disabled and older people in American history. And these do not appear to be token gestures. Wednesday’s home care proposals envision $400 billion in new federal spending, accounting for nearly one-quarter of the $2 trillion package Biden unveiled. A meaningful initiative on child care ... |
 Al Hirschfield: A Short, Little, "Pipple" Poem When I go out, What do I see? Pipple! Pipple! (And an occasional tree). I do like a good "pipple"... 4  |
 Half of the US Population is Poor Even if we use the standards that the State has set, which are different from our standards, one in two Americans are poor or low income. Which is, I think, a staggering statistic, and something that people have no idea about. And so, connected to that, when we’re talking about the issue of homelessness, the average age of a homeless person in the United States is 9 years old. So it’s families with their children ... 3 |
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Gary Lindorff: Poet's Notebook: My poem, "So long -- A cautionary tale" and brief comments
We are living in dark times. In this poem I am revisiting one of the darker times in American history when the darkness wasn't just an existential reality, but palpable. 1 |
 Daniel Penisten: Direct Democracy - Bill Of Rights - Article 4 - Economic Rights and Responsibilities It is very important that We take a good look at Our Economic Rights too. 2 |
 Yehudah Kalman: Two Artists Take Their Passion For The Poor To The Streets Washington, DC, November 19, 2012 -- After volunteering with different groups providing services for the homeless, Cory Clark and Dani Finger decided to investigate first hand poverty and homelessness in America and what those struggling for their survival endure and why no one seems to have the answers to the poverty problem. 2 |
 Clifford Johnson: B*gg*r Bubbles A dialog re usury and fraud, drafted in 2009, and drawing on particular mortgage frauds, two of which are described in notes. |
 Mason Gaffney: Europe's Fatal Affair with VAT In August, 2011, S&P lowered the credit rating of the U.S. Treasury. We held our breath, thinking this might be the tipping point before a flight from the dollar. Our Congress, deadlocked, quarrelsome and dysfunctional, seemed to deserve it. And yet mobile international capital saw something, spited S&P, and stayed with U.S.A. Treasury securities. It seems that we must be doing something right, or at least less wrong... |
Review of the movie "Lincoln" with Monetary emphasis
Given the limited timeframe and scope of the story, it's understandable how much is necessarily left out; nevertheless, it's disconcerting that the connection between the biggest factors in the South's ability to go to war (financed by the European banks), the North's difficulty in raising money in a timely manner to fund the Union Army (Wall Street told Lincoln that they would lend him the money at 24 to 36% interest), as wel... |
 Joan Brunwasser: Michael Collins on Obama's Failures and What Awaits Us The financial and power elite,The Money Party, have no solutions for the problems we face. Popular respect fo the system is vanishing quicker than ever.Their greed is making the nation and planet figuratively and quite literally unlivable. Their grip on reality is limited.However,their grip on power will tighten in response to their fear of huge public dissatisfaction leading to civil unrest and the guilt they bear 6 |
 Joan Brunwasser: Robert Reich on "Bungee-Jumping Over the Fiscal Cliff" Average people should be sufficiently angry about what's happened to our democracy that they make a ruckus.It would be a tragedy if that anger turned to cynicism I doubt the GOP will change its stripes on the economy.Its wealthy backers on Wall St and in board rooms are still willing to spend vast sums, and too many working-class Americans are still vulnerable to the false claim that their problems are due to "big government". 12 |
Global Economic Intersection: Infographic of the Day: The 1% Are Doing Fine
CEO's and the top 1% wage earners are doing better than the 99% - but the size of the difference is significant. The infographic puts the difference into perspective. |
 Joan Brunwasser: Peter Dreier on the Bank CFO Fighting to Foreclose on Wheelchair-Bound Cancer Patient In my article, I ask "who is the real criminal here?" Yes, Wilson broke the law. But Wells Fargo has a long record of illegal and abusive activities, which I itemize in my article. Wells Fargo has lots of resources -- including campaign contributions and lobbying -- to get its voice heard and wield political influence. But people like Wilson have to resort to protest to get their voices heard. That's the point of my article. 3 |
Jon Jeter: Lethal Weapon Meets Orwell in South Africa
a satirical op-ed piece on the Orwellian failure of the African National Congress to improve the lives of black South Africans. 3 |
 Mason Gaffney: Land Booms, Capital Stretch-Out, And Banking Collapse Part of a "Pilot Paper", conference on the bank bubble, The American Institute for Economic Research. Although written in 1994, after the "Thrift Debacle" (S&L collapse) of 1991, they could as well have been written, with a few different details, after 2008. Our leaders, had learned nothing from 1991. The notes could be written again today, in 2012... |
 Burl Hall: Letting Go of Ourselves: The Wisdom of Green Funerals Death is a living process. In order to evolve, one must die to one's self. This perception of life's process is related in the article to the old yet renewed process of green funerals. 2 |
 Bernard Starr: George Stoney: A Life in Film Famed documentary film maker George Stony died on July 12th at age 96. George was a towering figure in documentary film making over the past sixty-plus years. His focus on the downtrodden and oppressed in society was unique. George Stoney's inspiration will live on through the thousands of students he mentored at the New York University Film School. In this interview George revealed the many facets of his long productive life 1 |
 Scott Baker: Educating the Next Generation For those who don't understand Georgism or Land Value Taxation, the following conversation may prove illuminating. For everyone else convinced there are no solutions to our economic ills, it will prove enlightening. 2 |
 Scott Baker: *Geoism explained on Public Access TV by...me Geoism and the Land Value Tax Geoism, based on the writings of economist Henry George, is an economic philosophy which promotes a single tax on the value of land. This theory proposes to eliminate/ reduce all other taxes and promote income equality. Scott Baker, president of Common Ground-NYC will discuss these topics. 1 |
Peter Michaelson: Our Global Strategy for Self-Defeat
The complex operating systems we're creating in the world point to the possibility that we're acting out compulsive self-defeat. What is the driving force motivating this dysfunctional behavior? 8 | |
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Kirk Gallaway: Uranus Square Pluto and the Cycles of Economic Recession and Depression
The current economic downturn, is not a random turn of events, but can be measured and predicted through the study of planetary cycles. This article notes the occurrence of a square or 90 degree angle between two of the further out planets ( Uranus and Pluto)that started in 2008, and parallels the similarities in economic activity with three other such occurrences over the last 200 years. 3 |
Half of America is officially poor While it's no surprise that nearly 50 million Americans live below the poverty line, new statistics from the US Census show that almost 100 million others are counted as low-income citizens, making half of the population of America officially poor. |
Mikhail Lyubansky: The Cost of Vengeance: The Psychology of the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Part 2 Nietzsche observed (about those who fight monsters), "If you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you." Is Lisbeth Salander really safer as a result of taking vengeance? Are the rest of us? 13 |
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DR RAKESH KUMAR: Economic Crisis over soon
Dr. Rakesh Kumar, Hindu Vedic Astrologer writes his predictions for the economic crisis, and that better times are ahead for America. He also writes about the shift of the planet Saturn, and how this would affect all 12 moon signs for individuals. 2 |
Olafur Arnarson, Michael Hudson and Gunnar Tomasson: Iceland's New Bank Disaster This polarizing issue has now broken out especially in Iceland. The country is now suffering a second round of economic and financial distress stemming from the collapse of its banking system in October 2008. That crisis caused a huge loss of savings not only for domestic citizens but also for international creditors such as Deutsche Bank, Barclay's and their institutional clients. Stuck with bad loans and bonds from bankru... 2 |
Mason Gaffney: Sales-tax bias against turnover and jobs An indictment against big banks and for smaller banks, and State banks, and for untaxing labor and capital goods. My thesis is that retail sales taxes, however "general" or universal in their apparent coverage, tax capital for turning over; turnover means replacement; and replacement sustains demand for labor. |
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Come Carpentier De Gourdon: Alternatives For Political And Economic Organisation In The New Century
A review of past and present strategies and models for socio-political and economic organisation in various civilisations with a proposal for a synthesis suitable for the global future. |
 Mason Gaffney: What's The Matter With Michigan? The Rise And Collapse Of An Economic Wonder. A tracing of history of taxation in Michigan and California can provide answers to how best to apply taxes in ways that PROMOTE growth instead of retarding it-the Georgist tax on land. It's not a matter of cutting, but of leveling taxes where they belong: on the land, not the people. 2 |
How Do I Buy an Ethical Engagement Ring?
My fiance and I have spent quite a bit of time researching both diamonds and alternatives. It can be overwhelming. One of the things that surprised me most in talking about it with others, though, is a fairly wide belief among even our do-gooder-type friends that the problems with the diamond industry have pretty much been cleared up. That isn't really true. So what follows is a list of things to consider if you're in the same... |
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