Author Archives: stevej

Deficit Hypocrisy – NYTimes.com.

We’ve been here over 5 years and this is the first time we’ve seen orcas from our house — nice Christmas present.

Recent Trends in Government Spending – NYTimes.com.

Notes On Government Employment – NYTimes.com.

Plutocracy Reborn. More on the growing income gap — and the diminishing top marginal tax rate from Business Insider.

Battered but Not Beaten – Grasping Reality with Both Hands.

“Mountains of research show that for every piece of care you might name — a drug, a doctor visit, a diagnostic — you’ll pay far more in the United States than in other countries.” via Ezra Klein – Americans pay … Continue reading →

Ryan seems to be equivocating between two proposals, one irrelevant and the other insane. via Yglesias » Paul Ryan’s Monetary Economics.

Brad DeLong discusses Paul Krugman’s column: …. Today we have next to no hard-money lobby, for nearly everybody has a substantially diversified portfolio and suffers mightily when unemployment is high and capacity utilization and spending are low. … But here … Continue reading →

What kind of a country do we aspire to be? Would we really want to be the kind of plutocracy where the richest 1 percent possesses more net worth than the bottom 90 percent? Oops! That’s already us. The top … Continue reading →