Agitated by 'Pathetic Centrists,' Progressive Populists Strike Back
Real story isn’t the tired antics of the “corporate centrists” but the “sustained feistiness among progressives” increasingly on display
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Krugman & Co.: Austerity's Failure Everywhere You Look
The last week has been a flurry of headlines decrying the complete and utter failure of the ‘austerity experiment’ across the globe, with an influential academic paper from Harvard economists becoming the poster-child not only of poor scholarship but also failed common sense.
Read MoreKrugman clashes with Van Susteren: ‘No correlation’ between regulation and hiring
what’s holding small business back is not regulation, it’s the fact that they don’t have sales. There’s no correlation.”
Read MoreAssimilated by the Peterson Borg
National security types get taken for a ride. The language on taxes seems a bit more open to higher rates than in the past, and they actually call for defense spending cuts. But what makes the whole thing absurd is that they...
Read MoreOccupy – Day 35
Countdown provides more updates on the Occupy Movement with emphasis on the responsibility of the populace to stand up against the continued whittling away of our civil rights. No one needs a permit to engage in peaceful assembly.
Read MoreMaddow – Paul Krugman – The worse the economy the better for the GOP
Paul Krugman talks with Rachel about the apparent plan by the GOP to worsen the economy in order to retake the White House in 2012
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