The Coming Collapse of the Middle Class
This is an hour long lecture from the California educational system, found on YouTube
Dr. Warren’s Book “the Two Income Trap” trap is well worth the read but if you don’t have time to read it you will find the lecture below to be very worthwhile. Just leave it […]
Financial Meltdown 101. on Altenet.
This is a solid explanation of just what the heck went on with our economy. Its a little light on solutions but its still a very complete and easy to read primer.
You may want to ignore the childish art though.
The summary –
The choice is simple — the reconstruction of the South, or the deconstruction of the U.S. economy.
Its probably the most important article I’ve read in a long time. It lays out much of the current internal crises and gives us workable solutions all at one time.
To Whit
The alternative to the […]
Not my title. Its the work of the inimitable Robert Reich.
The article is well worth the read as it explains in simple language some of the reasons why the stimulus and bail out are likely to fail.
Of course there are other problems including lop sided trade, automation and demographics in play but there is […]
Damaged Trust.
Its actually effortless to fix our current deflation concerns . All you have to do is put more money in peoples pockets on a long term basis.
This means actual higher wages, not cheaper debt. Once this is done and the pressing debts are paid off and some savings is established people will […]
Hale Stewart on the HuffPo lays it out clear as a bell.
In case you are wondering why they would do such a thing here are the reasons as I see them.
Republicans are fascists and like most of that breed they
#1 don’t care who they have to hurt to get power.
#2 […]
50 Billion, yes Billion dollars.
I don’t think Dr. Evil could steal that much.
Have you folks noticed the preponderance of self check out lines at stores? I’ve seen these things at Home Depot and Fresh and Easy so far.
What concerns me is that if we keep making businesses need less and less people how are all the folks who would once have been check out clerks and […]
Originally on Reddit
An actual clever idea that might you know, work .
Its directed the the UK but would do just fine here. The extra cash BTW is a round up and exchange rate bump.