Has Senator Ron Wyden of Wall Street Gone Insane?

Senator Ron Wyden, who is supposed to represent the people of Oregon, but who represents the 1 percent of people who use Wall Street to steal money from the 99 percent, is not happy with the latest income redistribution scam put forth by the Obama administration. That scheme seeks to redistribute more and more income [...]

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It’s a First! Most unemployed Americans attended at least some college, for the first time ever

What will you achieve if you take out student loans, go to college, improve your skills and get ahead of your competition? For the first time in US history, you’ll most likely get a ton of student loan debt and join your competition in a place on a very long unemployment line. But the affluent [...]

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Boycott the Oregonian newspaper, A Propaganda Conduit of the One Percent

The Oregonian newspaper is the primary propaganda organ of the one percent in the state of Oregon. The newspaper reported today that the Beaverton School District is going to lay off 344 employees. The district is the third largest in the state. What is conspicuous is what the Oregonian chose not to mention; much of [...]

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Senator Ron Wyden: Useful Idiot, part two

Corporate Drone Senator Ron Wyden of Oregon has come up with a new scam on his behalf of his Wall Street masters to redistribute income from working Americans to the one percent via a bill that provides vouchers for health care insurance. Liberal economist Paul Krugman called Wyden a useful idiot for his proposal, and [...]

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Oh My! Two Charts That Republicans Find Terrifying

Economic indications are weak, but they have been slowly moving in favor of President Obama for the last year or two. It’s nothing to brag about, but as President Ronald Reagan said back in the day, “Don’t change horses in midstream.” Obama hasn’t done anything to stop income from flowing from the 99 percent to [...]

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The Truth About the Trade Deficit: What the Government Doesn’t Want You to Know About It

So I’m looking at this story about how the US trade deficit with China has cost the United States 2.8 million jobs since 2001 (Click here for a story on the trade deficit from the Economic Policy Institute). There are a ton of problems I have with the story. Now, don’t get me wrong. I’m [...]

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This is one of the Ways the Rich Spend Our Money When the Government Redistributes It to Them

The rich toss our former money at politicians, making them sit and beg and fetch. Then those same politicians tell us how wonderful deregulation is, and when that happens, the rich jack up the deregulated prices they charge us, giving them more of our hard, earned cash with which to make politicians sit, beg and [...]

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Is the Euro Zone About to Break Up? If so, look out for an explosion in the basement of Senator Ron Wyden

A hedge fund is an unregulated investment firm, pretty much like Goldman Sachs, only hedge funds are off the public radar for the most part. There are tons of hedge funds. One of them is headquartered in the basement of the DC home of Senator Ron Wyden. Wyden is a Wall Street legislative whore disguised [...]

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A Review of Robert Reich’s “AfterShock.”

“Aftershock” is a copycat ripoff of several other books. There are significant differences. Aftershock lacks the depth of analysis of similar books. On the other hand, like many others starting a decade or more ago, Reich correctly identifies the mal-distribution of income in the USA that has occurred over the last thirty years as the [...]

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Competition hasn’t worked in health care and there’s a reason why

Okay, Senator Useful Idiot Ron Wyden thinks that more competition will stifle the rise in health care costs. Some of the medical companies that benefit from those price increases probably paid the useful idiot a ton of money to utter such nonsense. Competition hasn’t worked to stifle price increases, or hasn’t anyone noticed? The story [...]

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