Category Archives: economics

A long time pet peeve of mine has been the coverage of the economy by the mainstream media. Listening to them pontificate, you would assume that other than the state-backed-to-the-hilt Wall Street and the vaguely defined “middle-class”, no one else … Continue reading →

Shorter Matt Yglesias: “Yes, the Fed is a central planner, but it just made a mistake. Ron Paul is nuts!” Shorter Washington Examiner: “Here, have yet more proof the Fed is hard-drive-in-a-clothes-dryer-full-of-nails corrupt” The latter cites as a source the … Continue reading →

Familiar pattern in the stock “market” these days.  Take a hit off the central bank pipe & get all amped up, then crash, slumping along until that next fat rock comes.  Well, this time rather than just the neighborhood dope … Continue reading →

The following was in comments under a web article earlier about U.S. labor organization: Employees want to get paid as much as possible for as little work as possible.  Business owners want to pay employees as little as possible for … Continue reading →

Me, last year, re: right wingers and interventionist economics: [...]the slightest glance at their record shows they love them some Keynesian economics as long as the spending goes to the right things, by which they mean war & its related … Continue reading →