Joe Firestone: Progressives Re-Arrange the Deck Chairs for Obama’s Austerity Budget
With friends like the austerity-loving Congressional Progressive Caucus, who needs enemies?
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CalPERS Sends Data With Errors in Response to Our Lawsuit, Pointing to Problems in Record-Keeping
CalPERS continues to make a science of not walking its talk.
Read more...Seeking Reader Input on the Outlook for the Economy
Damsel in distress!
Read more...Jeffrey Sommers/Michael Hudson: Russia, Crimea and the Consequences of NATO Policy
Russia’s incursion (invasion if you prefer) into Crimea, with prospects for movement into Eastern Ukraine, is the culmination of US/NATO policy since 1991.
Read more...Please Come to Our Washington, DC Meetup This Tuesday, March 18
I’m really looking forward to meeting readers. And guess what? Matt Stoller has said he’ll join us. We’ve had a very enthusiastic response, so this should be a fun event.
Read more...More on Our Terrible Experience with Yoast SEO Review: Yoast Tries to Escalate (Updated)
Normally, I would not continue to give readers the blow-by-blow on our outstanding complaints with the company Yoast, which is best known for its Yoast Wordpress SEO plugin, over a review of our site
Read more...Links 3/15/14: Ides of March
Wolf Richter: Kremlin – If The US Tries To Hurt Russia’s Economy, Russia Will Target The Dollar
Yves here. While I have every reason to assume the Russians mean to act on the currency front, on the surface, the remarks Wolf discusses in his post appear to be based on a misapprehension. But there may more method here than meets the eye.
Read more...Trying Some Modest Fixes on Comment Moderation
Some readers get upset about comment moderation, so it appears to be time for some remarks and reminders.
Read more...Yanis Varoufakis: Tony Benn – In Memoriam
Tony Benn’s passing saddened and concentrated my mind.
Read more...Do Not Hire SEO Firm Yoast: Our Terrible Experience With Yoast SEO Review
Our bad experience with vendor known as Yoast, in a perverse case of synchronicity, illustrates our theme of the crapification of everything. Nevertheless, we suspect you’ll find our shaggy dog story to be entertaining.
Read more...Links 3/14/14
Columbia Tosses Out Star Faculty Researchers for Failing to Pay 80% of Their Own Way
From a reader: “two eminent professors with decades of serious work have been dumped unceremoniously by Columbia because they could no longer bring in the grant millions for the university business to extract rent from. This is Ivy-league neoliberalism at its worst thanks to the spineless Democrats/Obama White House allowing government science funding to get pummeled while Bush’s tax cuts are preserved. “
Read more...Philip Pilkington: Bank of England Endorses Post-Keynesian Endogenous Money Theory
Yves here. Not only is the Bank of England siding with Post-Keynesian ideas about money, but it has even taken to creating layperson-friendly videos about the nature of money.
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