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The usual handicapping for a new Fed Chair is happening, but likely it’s too early. Lael Brainard...
Recession
News Corpse
Whether it’s soccer teams or sandwich shops, financialization was there before the pandemic, only making some of...
Aldous Pennyfarthing
Remember Infrastructure Week? It’s coming back—this time without an infrastructure weakling deflating the promise of a newly...
Conservative columnist excoriates the irresponsibility of the MSM at the Biden Press Conference
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Egberto Willies
I was never a fan of Washington Post Conservative columnist Jennifer Rubin. But she nailed the Biden...
One chart shows the dramatic difference between Biden's American Rescue Plan and the Trump tax scam
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I still remember when Donald Trump got up in front of a throng of masochistic fools and...
Anti-Capitalist Meet-Up: the Climate Crisis has weak carbon markets and lagging technology
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The sparse number of actual carbon capture and sequestration projects plus weak carbon markets amplify the problems of the climate...
Krugman: stagflation as ambitious macroeconomic policies and conservative ideas was wrong?
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Let real wages (of $15+/hour) grow faster than labor productivity for some years, undoing the wage repression...
AntiCapitalist MeetUp: Climate Crisis, negative emissions technologies, and financialization
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As Climate Crisis returns to the new US administration agenda, negative emissions technologies (NETs) may find their...
Republican moderates offer lame 'compromise' COVID bill that's a third the size of Biden's proposal
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Republicans are intimidated by the size of Joe Biden’s bills. Maine Sen. Susan Collins and a group...
Yeah, you knew this was coming. And it’s here — until the economy is drowned in a...
“Do you believe the [presidential] election was rigged?” non-answer by Loeffler blames socialism
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Loeffler-Warnock debate for US Senate seat from Georgia. x Watch Sen. Loeffler's non-answer to the question: “Do...
Trump's recession has a greater jobs deficit than at worst point of all previous postwar recessions.
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Trump's recession has a greater jobs deficit than at worst point of all previous postwar recessions.
Thankfully the new administration will steer the economy to a place quite unlike the disaster that Trump...
Despite McConnell and a hostile Supreme Court, Joe Biden will be known as the climate president.
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The crises facing the country are severe — from a pandemic to an economic recession, climate change...
The vindictive disabled canard could tank the economy in the next 11 weeks #TrumpDepression
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It moves… there will still be monkey business even as one good sign has been put into place: x...
Unhingery abounds on the path to the bunker. MSNBC reports that angry Trumpists are demonstrating at the...
AntiCapitalist MeetUp: Après moi, le déluge. Schumpeter's gale, herd immunity as 'dangerous fallacy'
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AntiCapitalist MeetUp: Après moi, le déluge. Schumpeter's gale, herd immunity as 'dangerous fallacy'
Larry Kudlow continues the underlying theme of Trumpian nihilism and its trickle-down contagion of pixie dust and...
Obama is speaking up about Donald Trump's claim to the economy both he and Biden worked to...
There is a critical reality beyond the waiting for the “next two weeks” in which Trump has...
Oh, and his advisers “have their heads up their asses” — but I didn’t want to put...
'This election's a choice between a Trump-strong-powerful-beautiful recovery and a Biden depression'
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'This election's a choice between a Trump-strong-powerful-beautiful recovery and a Biden depression'
Trump will continue to make the pandemic-enhanced recession worse, as Trump suggests he'd leave the country. Unlawful Flight...
Some very encouraging news today out of Ohio courtesy of Quinnipiac University’s latest poll: OHIO: PRESIDENTIAL RACE...
Harvard economists estimate the cumulative financial costs of the COVID-19 pandemic. The fiscal conservatives' pandemic cost $16 Trillion...
AK-Sen: HuffPost, “A Secret Recording Of Mining Executives Is Shaking Up The Alaska Senate Race”
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First, from The Washington Post: Mining executive Tom Collier, who boasted in secretly taped conversations that he...
A new analysis by Moody’s Analytics definitively demonstrates to those predisposed to conventional economic analysis that Trump...
“I say we take off and nuke the entire site from orbit.” No. We still vote, GOTV, for democracy.
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More Trump attention-seeking shtick has happened. He’s threatened to refuse to transfer power. That could really happen because he’s...
90 minute debate in six parts, Trump will fail because bluster and bull aren't a October Surprise
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The toast is not yet burnt. Trump will need to win all three events. Won’t happen because...
Trump's in Ohio today, trying distract us from knowing that the Manhattan DA has grounds to prosecute Trump...
GOTV and get a Biden landslide. x The Coming Biden Landslide https://t.co/DB0UYBnxoU pic.twitter.com/ePYMFI9YNi — #TheResistance | Vote...
Well while Wall Street is rolling in the money now, things are about to change. Coca-Cola will...
OR-Sen: Sen. Jeff Merkley (D) Keeps Up The Call To End The Filibuster When Dems Have The Majority
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Received this e-mail today from U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley’s (D. OR) U.S. Senate campaign: Here's the cold,...
WaPo published an update to the estimation of whether Trump was more than a rhetorical trope as...
Let's not let the perfect be the enemy of the good: fossil-fuel subsidies are still in trouble
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Trump has pimped for the fossil fuel industries because it’s still about money, just like dialing back...
Pence says Trump created more jobs in three months than Obama did in eight years … uh, what?
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Does this kind of argument work with anyone? The guy whose administration has overseen the destruction of...
Democratic political consultant Paul Begala appeared on This Week with a message Democrats better heed. Trump made Social Security...
Another Trump Presser: without a case of the claque, Trump still wants to kill social security
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Started at 547pm ET Apparently like the Germans and Pearl Harbor, for Trump, the second World War...
another idiotic Trump presser at the 19th hole: more lies in advance of killing social security
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Another stunt to keep Trump in the news on a Saturday, because he’s losing. Yesterday’s presser at...
SC-Sen: Tom Steyer Keeps Up The Momentum To Help Jaime Harrison (D) Defeat Lindsey Graham (R)
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Recieved this e-mail yesterday from former presidential candidate, businessman Tom Steyer (D. CA), in support of Jaime...
Today’s takeaway from another presser that this time was an hour late: Trump thinks the massive fertilizer...
From Great Recession to Trump Disaster, because if you're anti-mask, you're pro-surveillance.
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The weird have turned pro, but the advantage of mask-wearing is the disruption of facial recognition software...
I vividly remember Donald Trump’s campaign kickoff speech at Trump Tower on June 16, 2015 — a...
Ali Velshi recently articulated the state of our current democracy that seems to be transitioning to a...
Received this e-mail from former Vice President Joe Biden’s presidential campaign: Make no mistake: America has been...
Joe Biden was very effective in his speech today as he scorched President Trump for his failure...
“rally round the family, with a pocket full of shells” Trump wants a pandemic-denying race war
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The winning formula is based on multiple distractions because even Trump’s daily brief seems to now have become...
elections.ap.org/… The Associated Press has called a narrow victory in a vote to expand Medicaid by constitutional amendment in...
She can’t stop getting caught lying: Sen. Martha McSally released a TV ad for her campaign in...
AntiCapitalist MeetUp: government deficit is a myth in the eyes of Modern Monetary Theory
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Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) can (but not will) save the US economy. What with the White House...
Received this e-mail yesterday from Civil Rights hero, Rep. John Lewis (D. GA-05), in support of Rep....
NC-Gov: Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D. NY) Refuses To Let Trump Take Down Gov. Roy Cooper (D)
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Received this e-mail today from former presidential candidate, U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D. NY) in support of...
There are now 119,000 deaths to date and 2.2 million cases of COVID-19 in the US. Trump...
