Author : Angry Bear

“… the fundamental law of capitalism must be: If workers have more money, businesses have more customers.” Nick Hanauer Keynes wrote that insufficient effective demand...

Lance Roberts has a piece called Not Seeing Signs of Market Exuberance? Look Closer. He talks about the psychology of gamblers to expect winning even...

In a piece yesterday called High Asset Prices, the Savings Glut, Secular Stagnation, and Unemployment, Dean Baker wrote… “The idea that the economy could be subject...

Via Demos comes this note on Our enormous retirment subsidies to the rich: …it behooves us to collectively recall just how much money the federal...

by Barkley Rosser at Econospeak The Wannabe Caliphate Openly Declares Itself So I earlier argued here that ISIS(ISIL) or DAEESH was not yet claiming itself...

        Lifted from commnents in open thread in resonse to Tom Coburn’s comments on SSDI, by ilsm: Going after SSDI scalawags. The...

I was not surprised to learn that conservatives assert that the recent increase in the growth of employment and reduction in unemployment are due to...

by Barkley Rosser via Econospeak Is The Neo-Zengist DAEESH State Really A Wannabe Caliphate? OK, since I have no answers about what to do about...

I thought it worthwhile to re-post this quote from a time before the Tea Party even thought of being as a reminder that the current...

There are what I perceived as problems with the Brookings Study. Just one example: they base much of their analyses upon “lifetime earnings associated with...