Al Gore takes aim at “unsustainable” capitalism

The corporate economic system is not sustainable. The US is in the midst of a long term, slow motion economic collapse. For the vast majority of people the system may get marginally better in the short term, especially in the months before an important election, but in the long term things are getting worse. The [...]

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Economics in 2012: no gain, just pain as austerity brings misery to all

The fluctuations of the financial markets and the relentless round of make-or-break euro-summits gripped the attention in 2011, but this will be the year when the shockwaves are felt by millions of people in Europe and beyond. Click here for the rest of the story

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An Open Letter to Greg Mankiw from the Harvard Political Review–Be the first to post a reply to this and receive a free copy of “The Rigged Game,” Be the first student from Harvard to post a reply and also receive a free copy. “

To receive a free copy, leave a way for me to communicate with you like an email address, home address, or telephone number. Whatever makes you feel most comfortable. I’ll also send you some other alternative, realistic, non-Foxnews, non-Koch Brothers, non-Bush, non-Mankiw economics that I can photocopy for you. These are from reliable sources, such [...]

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Harvard Students Boycott Bush Economic Advisor As Instructor

Harvard students who participated in a walk-out of economics professor Greg Mankiw’s class on Wednesday issued an open letter accusing Mankiw of pushing a biased view of economics that perpetuates inequality. “As Harvard undergraduates, we enrolled in Economics 10 hoping to gain a broad and introductory foundation of economic theory,” the students wrote. “Instead, we [...]

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Obama Selects Princeton University Economist as his New Economic Advisor–Why That Choice is Both Good and Bad for Working People

President Barack Obama on Monday tapped one of the nation’s top labor economists, Alan Krueger, to become the next chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, a selection that underscores the president’s “urgent mission” to jump-start the economy. Why is the selection of Krueger important? For one, the president decided he wanted to get reelected. [...]

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Paul Krugman and the Lost Decade of the Republicans, but in two days I’ll tell you what liberals and conservatives don’t want you to know about the jobless growth decade

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Review of The Rigged Game

5.0 out of 5 stars Fantastic Analysis of Modern Macroeconomics….for anyone, May 10, 2009 By Tungsten Silicide “WSix” (Eugene, OR USA) – See all my reviewsThis book is very unique and highly recommended. John Hively predicts the economic meltdown of 2008 all the way back in the spring of 2006, when this book was originally [...]

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