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POPSCapitalizing on Rural Creativity David Brock doesn’t pooh-pooh the challenges facing rural communities, but argues that rural places have the real assets which they can harness to successfully navigate and prosper in the Creative Age
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POPSEconomic signs: Washington may have gotten it right "evidence is now pointing pretty strongly in one direction: history books may conclude that the financial crisis of 2008 turned out to be far less bad than it could have been and that Washington deserved much of the credit"
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POPSWeaponized Keynesianism GOP only believes deficit spending can create jobs when it goes toward airplanes that will never be used in combat
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POPSFrench economy shines while US, Britain collapse Smash-and-grab capitalism's inherent instability reveals a much-ignored fact: the French economy, employment, and infrastructure are in much better shape than what business lust has left to the USA. Its healthcare is the best in the world. The average household's debt is half that of the USA.
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POPSWhy you don't want AIG to fail Short answer: It might bankrupt your state treasury. It might bankrupt your local bank. It might put your local industries out of business. If the gov't acts quickly, it can break up and sell off the profitable parts of AIG, recovering the cash it has lent to cover AIG's unregulated Financial Products Division's inability to pay "insurance" benefits that it had sold to cover the risk inherent in mortgage-backed securities.
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POPSWeren't Repubs protecting bonuses 2 weeks ago? TNR has collected an assortment of quotes from leading Republicans on the hill about executive bonuses and boy are they a doozy. Remember how just a few weeks ago the thought of limiting executive compesation for corporate executives was pure socialism for Republicans?
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POPSIs home ownership the problem? Richard Florida's now-famous Atlantic article suggests that home ownership ties people to failing local economies and inhibits economic growth.
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POPSKrugman: GOP putting the nation's future at risk Nobel laureate warns of danger of deflation trap - falling wages and demand for goods, rising layoffs - could mean spell disaster: the end of the American middle class. Economy is "on the edge of catastrophe, and much of the Republican party is trying to push it over that edge" out of loyalty to "a discredited economic philosophy."
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POPSScarborough's looniness: "pure, straight socialism" Why the Obama plan is not charity, and why this kind of tax refund is the most effective at stimulating the economy. Back to high school, Joe. Socialism is about government ownership of the means of production, not about tax refunds!
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