Below is a collection of things that I’ve been saving up — including the problems of CV-19, MMT, neoliberalism, and other things relating pandemics to the economy. If there’s a point to this selection it is to remind ourselves what will happen in 2021 with Larry Summers now advising the Biden...
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You’ll enjoy this. Ted Cruz likes to pretend he’s plugged into pop culture, but his efforts in that regard are, to put it mildly, clumsy. His latest Daffy Duck-worthy backfire came two days ago after he picked up on an old Jimmy Kimmel segment showing American pedestrians being asked to point...
George Will was on CNBC today plugging a book called … ah, who gives a shit what it’s called? I’ve never been able to get far enough through a George Will book to finish the title anyway. So after the usual old-guard conservative pablum about free markets reigning supreme —...
Oh, did I say nightmare? I meant the opposite of that. People who oppose adopting universal health care in the U.S. generally say that we have the greatest health care system in the world. We don’t, of course, and it’s not even close. I don’t know where this habit of...