Author : Angry Bear

The Washington Post reports: While the youngest boomers are still in their forties, the generation as a whole is shifting from one of net savers...

By Dean Baker (2011) Progressives need a fundamentally new approach to politics. They have been losing not just because conservatives have so much more money...

Hat Tip Digsby and Kos Cartoons “Hobby Lobby’ and the Supremes” In a footnote, Justice Alito concedes that Hobby Lobby’s religious-based assertions are contradicted by...

I have had a series of posts (one, two)  in response to Simon Wren-Lewis‘ post on an aggregate demand constraint. My posts give another version...

This post is a message to the Federal Reserve if they are serious about maximizing employment. Yesterday I posted a model for labor share plotted...

A lot going on with the minimum wage lately, but I will contextualize it first with Thomas Piketty’s analysis in Capital in the Twenty-First Century,...

The above is an extract from a 2012 National Academy of Social Insurance publication entitled Social Security: What do Americans Want. There is much to...

The bus I took for years in Chile. Paul Krugman wrote today about Life Without Cars. This subject strikes home for me. I have lived...

William Black has an interesting commentary on a seminar being offered by Bank of America in conjunction with Kahn Academy to educate Millennials. Millennials took...