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What happens when the FERAL Reserve uses raising interest rates in an attempt to quash inflation?  You guessed it:  STAGFLATION. That is, a ...

A friendly reminder to all readers:  contrary to popular opinion, it is entirely possible to have a better than Nordic-style social welfare ...

The elephant and jackass corporate duopoly in Congress are at it again.  They are, for the gazillionth time, playing a dangerous game of &qu...

(For the longer version, see the previous post .) There has been  trouble brewing  lately in a little-understood corner of the financial m...

The evidence is overwhelming now.  Austerity is NOT good for the economy, for the same reason that applying leeches to cure anemia is not a ...

What seemingly intractable problems can be solved with just four simple words?  And which current presidential candidate once actually said ...

The GOP has basically by word, deed, and especially by omission, admitted to being the party of "deficits don't matter, except when...

One of our favorite journalists, Annie Lowrey, recently wrote a book called Give People Money:  How a Universal Basic Income Would End Pove...

Big Lies have a very long history indeed.  As the infamous Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels (who knew quite a thing or two about lyi...

Although the government shutdown and debt-ceiling brinksmanship  has been averted  (for now), the $21+ TRILLION question remains:  what are ...