Hilzoy's right, we'd all be better off if these Right Wing bloggers and their commenters and writers of letters to the editors threatening to go Galt and make like the hero of Ayn Rand's fairy tale about a corporate fascist utopia lost, Atlas Shruggred, and take their wealth and job creating energie...

Oh GOD, as if the recession and the layoffs weren't all heart-rending enough, now the poor old geriatric retirees are being forced to shuffle back into the workforce. Why is economic collapse so sad? Now instead of whiling away their "golden" years in a recliner, knitting, while cat hair piles up ar...

You gotta love the way the mayor of Lansing shouts this smug, fat-faced Fox Stooge down. The New York Post editorial the stooge quotes is based on several lies, the main one being that autoworkers actually take home seventy dollars an hour.  That figure, long ago exposed as a con, includes the ...

Ten years ago I was still under the delusion I was a fiction writer and I was working on a short story that would eventually be titled "We Vanish Like Breath."  It was about a successful young investment broker whose life comes apart for no apparent reason.  The story opens with the broker...

I liked how Barney Frank went after Jim "Let It All Come Crashing Down Around Our Ears Just Give My Friends Their Tax Breaks" De Mint last week. "No tax break built a road," Frank told him.  "No tax cut puts a cop on the street." Good stuff to keep in mind.  Important.  What's also im...

Can one criticize Israel without being perceived as criticizing Jews? Is it political suicide to criticize Israel? Former President Jimmy Carter on Larry King Live the other night stated that Israel receives $10M per day from the USA. That's more than $3.5B a year. He also went on to say Israel's di...

Shorter Republican Congressional Caucus on the stimulus bill: Nevermind that the tax cuts for the rich, screw everyone else economic policies we and President Bush pursued for the last eight years caused this mess, if President Obama pursues the exact same tax cuts for the rich, screw everyone else ...

I need some things explained to me.  Slowly.  And with pictures. Not only do I not understand how we allowed ourselves to base on our economy on the endless buying and selling of things we do not need and do not make, how did it happen that business has redefined "loss" to mean "not making...

I liked this part of the President's Inaugural address--- Our economy is badly weakened, a consequence of greed and irresponsibility on the part of some but also our collective failure to make hard choices and prepare the nation for a new age. ---more because of the follow-up later than for the chas...

. BANKERS & BROKERS & BUREAUCRATS ARE NOT LIKE US THEY ARE UNANSWERABLE. THEY HAVE NO OBLIGATIONS TO ANYONE. THEY SPIT ON YOUR PETTY LEGALITIES. PTUI! YOUTUBE: MEL BROOKS "The French Revolution (from The History of The World Part 1)" Keep your eye on the Count de Monet. You Filthy Peasants, ...