Zombie Politics

Wells Fargo CEO John Stumpf steps down amid sales scandal "The San Francisco bank said Wednesday that Stumpf is retiring effective imm...

I remember, quite fondly, actually, the derision towards the Occupy movement. "Occupy a job" was a common dig along with predictio...

The next chapter in Stiglitz's book,  The Price of Inequality , is called "The Battle of the Budget." Written around the time ...

Emmanuel Saez from UC Berkeley has released his latest report on inequality and it reminds me that I need to finish off my last three inst...

Here's a piece from links file that I never got around to posting. Sharing her story seemed like a way to break through her fears and...

I've always been fascinated by Turkey. A country with a rich history steeped in a magnificent culture. I think it was the transformation...

Interesting piece from Martin Sandbu  about the Occupy Movement. To a certain extent, I agree with him. They had a chance to become the left...

Here's an interesting piece from a few weeks ago about the Occupy Movement.  While they may appear to have fallen off the map (at leas...

Remember how the whole one percent-ninety nine percent narrative was dying? Or dead? Yeah, still not so much. Take a look at this photo that...

The numbers are in on how many people ditched their banks last November and, I have to say, it's pretty impressive. Over 5 million peopl...

It was caucus night last night in my home state and I'm happy to report that my group unanimously supported President Obama in his re-el...

By today's standards, my family is strange and quite odd. Every night, we sit down and have a family meal. ALL of us. Occasionally some ...

Narrative=Still Not Dead

Making folks on the right blow a bowel is a pretty easy thing these days. But, boy oh boy, did a big one explode after this came out. Ti...

"...uncertainty. As a small business owner..." were the first words I heard when I flipped on NPR the other day. The caller was ...

Three stories today about the OWS movement that I found interesting... First, apparently someone in the OWS movement is reading this blog....

Occupy Economics from Softbox on Vimeo . So much for losing the narrative...