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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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adam: from garden to market
Too many invisible hands. Opaque transactions. Black pools. High frequency trading. We live in a much altered world than Adam Smith where the multinational corporation has found a natural habitat in the world of common markets.Our relative tariff enlightenment since … Continue reading
fiscal cliffs and financial stiffs
…The end is near. Doomsday scenario targeting that source of perennial anxiety and trauma: The management of the American economy; now in terms of integrity officially in a recession, a double-dipper with the entire money and banking system, the money … Continue reading
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Tagged Allan Greenspan, Ben Bernanke, Dai Dudu, Fiscal Cliff United States, Fritz Lang Metropolis, Guy Debord, henri Lefebvre, Hieronymous Bosch, James Rickards currency wars, Li Tiezi, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Paul Krugman, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Winslow Homer, Zhang An
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passing the buck
The equal sharing of misery? Hang the rich? The first idea is that inequality is an issue that all of us need to be concerned with.Or, it has always been there but slightly below the radar in our “to do” … Continue reading
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Tagged Carter Glass, Duncan Fletcher, Ferdinand Pecora, Hobson's Choice, james rickards, Jan Pen income parade, Lya Graf, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, mark blyth, Mike Moffat, Paul Krugman, Pecora Commission, Robert Wadlow, Senator Duncan Fletcher
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