Political Economy category archive
Republican Family Values 0
Thom talks with Alex Lawson about how Republican policies are destroying rural hospitals and eroding health care to enable billionaires to buy more yachts.
Trumponomics 0
Farron notes that conservative economists are not sanguine, discusses Trump’s efforts to end run around the law so as to revive his tariffs, and then wonders why Trump has a tariff fetish.
See the article that Farrom discusses.
It’s Bubblelicious 0
What’s bubblelicious? you may ask.
Per Hillary Remy in the Charlotte Observer, according to the Warren Buffett’s Buffett Indicator, the economy is about as bubblelicious as it’s ever been.
Clouds of Witless 0
Mary Trump marvels at the stupid.
War and Mongers of War 0
Mary Trump looks at what Donald Trump’s (undeclared, unplanned, and unthoughtout) war of choice on Iran is costing American citizens and America’s credibility.
The Business Man President 0
Shorter Michael in Norfolk: Yeah. Right.
Republican Thought Police 0
Farron points out that the Trump maladministration can’t handle the truth, so it wants to make it to go away.
This New Gilded Age 0
Theft of labor. It’s a thing.
The Climates They Are a-Changing . . . 0
. . . and the Trump maladministration is all for the day when Richmond, Virginia, will once more be a beachfront.
I fear for my grandchildren.
Smoot-Hawley Redux 0
Farron discusses how much Trump’s tariffs are costing American consumers.
I think those folks who claim that Donald Trump truly doesn’t understand how tariffs work may be onto something.
“History Does Not Repeat Itself, but It Often Rhymes’* 0
At the Idaho State Journal, Kim Shinkoskey listens to current events and hears four rhymmes from the past. Here’s one of them; follow the link for the others and for his reasoning.
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*Mark Twain.
This New Gilded Age 2
At the Portland Press-Herald, James McGuire argues that the increasing concentration of great wealth in few hands is harming the polity. A snippet:
Meanwhile, those who shape policy often live entirely insulated from its consequences. They do not rely on public transportation, wait weeks for medical appointments or wonder whether the heat can stay on through winter. They speak easily about “belt tightening” and “market discipline” because they will never feel the belt or the discipline themselves.
Methinks he makes some good points.
