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

Wednesday, July 11, 2012

Links

Brooks Blames Everyone But the Folks Who Took All the Income for Income Inequality: Helaine Olen, Forbes
Not that TED Stravaganza: Do The Math
Original Sin: Multiplier Effect
Hayek's Penchant For Pinochet and Mises Musings On Mussolini: Lord Keynes
Ideology Sucks the Ground Dry in Texas (and its unfortunate neighbors): The Daily Impact
How Today's Capitalists Bring Bad Things To Life: Douglas K.Smith co Yves Smith
Biggest Theft In History, In The States It's Legal 'Cause Mostly Rich White Guys Do It: Foreclosure Fraud Schneiderman and his Magnificent 7 (or is it 10 now) will soon restore the rule of Law at their water cooler, there will be no lawlessness in the Attorney Generals Office (unless its in a conference room)!
Still Ain't No Criminals On Wall Street: Masaccio, Fire Dog Lake This is sarcasm, but then there's this bait and switch at the NYT: The Spreading Scourge of Corporate Corruption: Eduardo Porter that loads up like Bill Black at a howitzer before the fold only to blast waffle and twaddle into the inner news space: our infallible government isn't prosecuting these things so things must be no worse than normal, right? I have a betting pool on whether the NYT will fold first or realize that corruption up and down the government and across the Fortune 500 might be a damn good way to draw readers: most of us aren't corrupt and are more than a bit peeved about it but the longer they (NYT) pretend there's nothing to see, the less point there is to read what so obviously does not correspond to the experience of most people.
Whom The Gods Would Destroy: A Fist Full Of Euros
Auckland Art Gallery, Toi O Tamaki & FJMT

Links

Growth Out: Bill Mitchell
What Really Happens When You Get Sucked Out of an Airlock: Gizmodo
Obama Kills: Congress Looks the Other Way: Tom Junod, Esquire
Hayek on the Convenience of Dictatorship: Farrant, McPhail, Berger
Gresham's Ethics: Matt Yglesias
We Don't Need No Stinking Safety Nets: Multiplier Effect
How Corruption Becomes Institutionalized: Bill Black
Whose Incentives?: Paul Krugman
Forcing Bill Gros To Lose Billions In Slow Motion Is A Crazy Way To Get To Full Employment: Chris Mealy via Slack Wire
Three Points on Workplace Coercion: RortyBomb
Dwelling after Student Debt Prision: Architectural Dispatch