Tuesday, August 28, 2012

Links

Anti-Austerity Alliance Part 2: Michael Hoexter: Naked Capitalism
Niel Barofsky's Book: Matt Stoller: Naked Capitalism
Nonsense Economics In Greece: Costas Lapavitsas: Real News
Ryan And The Irish Potato Famine: Bill Black: NEP
Black's history of English policy on Ireland in the famine sheds useful light on ECB core countries policies on Greece. So far the parallels are incomplete in that actual famine has not yet been induced, but it is getting very close.
The Euro Crisis Is An Ethnic Crisis: Nicholas Sambanis: NYT
Note that in Lapavitsas talk above he mentions that the only time Greece has been worse off has been as a result of war. Clauswitz said that war is the extension of politics by other means, but what we see here is warlike action thus far stripped of its physical violence: politics as an extension of war by other means.
115 Norfolk: Grzywinski + Pons Architects

Wednesday, August 15, 2012

Links

Is The USDA A Wholly-Owned Subsidiary of Monsanto?: Cornucopia Institute
Capital Levies: Vox EU This is exactly what the Regent did in France after the Mississippi Bubble burst in 1720: worked then, it'll work now.
Keynesian Theory Of Hegemonic Currencies: Palley: Keen This covers much of the same ground as The Marginal Propensity To Hoard here at Cobblehillbilly.
The Dollar vs The Euro: Fields, Vernengo: Linked by Palley above. This paper covers the decisive difference between hard and soft money and what it means to international trade. The US, in this light will continue to control it's own fate until it destroys it's monetary system by destroying the ability of US citizens to pay taxes by draining their assets through "Deficit Attention Disorder".
Public Deficits And Private Savings In The Euro Zone: Ed Harrison
Drought: Renee Schoof: McClatchy
Dani Ridge House: Carver + Schikitanz

Sunday, August 12, 2012

Links

Our Fading Constitution: Tangerine Bolen: The Guardian
NC is on a tear today:
Mark Ames On Ayn Rand
Bill Black On Krugman's Sudden Discovery Of Fraud (only in the GOP though)
More Ryan Fest:
One of the few things I agree with Matt on these days:
Ignoring The Biggest Issue This Year: Matt Yglasias
The Same Point + From Kevin Drum
If Only Brad DeLong Et Al Held Dems To The Same Standard And
Ryan's Follies: Letsgetitdone: FireDogLake
Randian Posure: Joan Walsh: Salon
I've been wondering what the Dems could do to bring me in from the cold these last several quarters, really since Obama made it clear he intends to cut SS and Medicare in his next term, bless those GOP hearts, this Ryan thing has done it! Like comedians diligently searching for a new joke, the GOP assiduously seeks the greater evil. But I'll still be pulling the lever for Jill Stein.
Harold Street Residence: Jackson Clements Burrows Architects