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shirtsleeves to shirtsleeves in 3 generations
Sacred cow. The image of America as the land of opportunity,the near birthright that the current generation will surpass their parents and grandparents up the income and status ladder. Slowly, Americans are coming to realize that this narrative is still … Continue reading
cyclical or structural?
Technological unemployment… Is our current unemployment malaise of cyclical or structural nature? According to Paul Krugman and Joseph Stiglitz the answer is more stimulus, more government printed money washing through the economy as if at a luxury spa where we … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged andrew McAfee author, Andrew McAfee MIT, Erik Brynjolfsson, GEA farm technology, Jeff Burnstein robotics, Joseph Stiglitz, Kiva robotics, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Noam Chomsky, Paul Krugman, Slavoj Zizek, steve kroft, technological unemployment, thomas friedman, thomas friedman new york times
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waiting for those UI cheques
….Technological unemployment. It’s an old story that’s been knocking at the door for over thirty years, but the message is finally coming home. The old economics textbooks of the late seventies were preaching the gospel of a future of machines … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Andrew P. McAfee, Bruce Weltry Quiet Logistics, David R. Henderson, David Ricardo economist, Erik Brynjolfsson, GEA farm technology, Jeff Burnstein robotics, Joseph Stiglitz, Kiva robotics, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Martin Ford author, Paul Krugman, steve kroft, T.S. Eliot
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wall street : hot under a blue collar
If anything, the eviction of the Occupy Wall Street protestors has simply evoked the long-standing fallacy of Joseph Stiglitz’s assertion of the 1% vs. 99% thesis. The police. Those on blue know where the bread is buttered and those in … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Abbott and Costello, Alexander Cockburn, Blue Labour, Charlie Chaplin, david north, Esther Leslie, IWW, Joseph Stiglitz, keystone cops, lisa ansell, mark ciavarella, Maurizio Cattelan, michael bloomberg occupy wall street, michael conahan, Noam Chomsky, Norman Rockwell, occupy wall street, peter mcbrien, peter taaffe, ralph miliband, Rosa Luxemburg, sam gompers, stephen shalom, The Wobblies, zuccotti park
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spilling the magic beans
Double dip or double down? A double double? The question is whether we are simply procrastinating on realizing that technology is essentially deflationary and we are accumulating a waiting list of unemployment. President Obama’s dinner with Silicon Valley high tech … Continue reading
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Tagged american economic policy, darcus howe, david rosenberg, dean zerbe forbes, Henry Fonda, Izima Kaoru, James Gillray, John Maynard Keynes, John Steinbeck, Joseph Stiglitz, london riots 2011, martin feldstein, Martin Luther King, melanie pullen photography, milton friedman, Paul Krugman, robert reich, technological unemployment, United States Small Business Act
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50 ways to leave your job
Is the cup half full or half empty? Does evaporation count? Is deflation inevitable? Even helicopter Ben may be running out of tools and ammo and if the property bubble bursts in China which is likely or their commodities takes … Continue reading
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Tagged Ben Bernanke, carson block muddy waters, foxconn factory problems, georgia labor prints, greg mankiw, Joseph Stiglitz, ken rogoff, larry summers, lester thurow, louis vuitton advertising, malcolm moore, martin feldstein, Michael Ferguson, Paul Krugman, Paul Samuelson, stephanie clifford, stephanie clifford new york times
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the lost decade: a hang five for prosperity
Socially, politically and economically, we are entering uncharted waters. We appear to be at the cusp on some major transformations. The issues are rather complex, seemingly beyond the comprehension of the present crew of economic advisers. The result is a … Continue reading
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Tagged Bob Dylan, Constance Rourke, henri Bergson, IBM Watson, Joseph Stiglitz, Michael Ferguson Polymathica, Nouriel Roubini, Paul Krugman, robert a. heinlein, Robert Crumb, technological unemployment, U.S. Economics, xaviera simmons, Yogi Berra
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