Which side are they on? This has been very interesting to watch. They literally didn’t know what to do. So they did everything. Yeah, they just love democracy in action — unless a Democrat wins in which case it’s obviously cheating and requires many more restrictions. The right wing media didn’t know how to read this because the fact is that the entire GOP caucus is very extreme and they are basically on both sides. So they went both ways, sometimes during the same program. Some Fox hosts were concerned that the Republicans looked foolish but they’ve since realized that their audience doesn’t care about looking foolish. I mean, come on. This is a party, a media and a movement that has been genuflecting to Orange Julius Caesar for the past six years. Clearly, looking like a bunch of clowns is not a problem for them. By the way …
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Inflation is coming down, but no thanks are due to the Fed for the trend reversal.
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The Fed Should Take Credit and Go Home
Stephanie Kelton | Professor of Public Policy and Economics at Stony Brook University, formerly Democrats' chief economist on the staff of the U.S. Senate Budget Committee, and an economic adviser to the 2016 presidential campaign of Senator Bernie Sanders
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The Fed Should Take Credit and Go Home
Stephanie Kelton | Professor of Public Policy and Economics at Stony Brook University, formerly Democrats' chief economist on the staff of the U.S. Senate Budget Committee, and an economic adviser to the 2016 presidential campaign of Senator Bernie Sanders
As Beijing’s Belt and Road Initiative enters its 10th year, a strong Sino-Russian geostrategic partnership has revitalized the BRI across the Global South.The Cradle
Why BRI is back with a bang in 2023
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India’s got the BRICS blues
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If we could freeze time, a soft-landing is upon us.
The Supremes bear responsibility for building it Denis Aftergut in Slate: Ultimately, in politics, only voters can deliver the message, “You’ve hit bottom, and you need to change your ways.” But the MAGA House majority’s inability to select a speaker may already be pushing voters to stage an intervention in 2024. There’s an irony in this early failure. Republicans came to it through a shameless addiction to power without principle. Starting in 2010, they gained political dominance across the country in state legislatures and wielded that power by gerrymandering congressional maps. The distorted districting maps they adopted herded minority voters and Democratic ones into electoral zones that looked like intoxicated amoeba. All that extreme gerrymandering has led directly to the current fiasco in the House. The effort has put more Republican members of Congress in safe seats, with fewer Democratic constituents to answer to. That left the victors free to test the limits of their extremism. Momentously, in 2019, a radical Supreme Court majority composed of Republican nominees issued a 5–4 decision in Rucho v.
The year 2022 marked the 150th anniversary of the establishment of North Queensland goldfield Charters Towers and the rise and riotous fall of the gold commissioner who inspired its name. read now...As I prepare my Spring semester courses, I’m wondering how people handle office hours these days. For my entire pre-Covid teaching career, office hours were a drop-in affair. I encouraged students to make an appointment outside of office hours if they wanted to be sure they could talk to me without the chance of another […]
In the debate over American workers’ welfare versus the Federal Reserve’s inflation-cooling rate hikes, the workers are losing.
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Copyright and licensing associate Craig Topham discusses the work done by the Licensing and Compliance Lab to answer licensing questions via articles, the FAQ, and email.
If you have the time, click through to that link for a thorough January 6th timeline. It’s as astonishing today as it was then. And considering what these people are doing today on the House floor, it’s clear they were not in any way chagrined. They are still making a mockery of the United States by acting like petulant children who will burn the place down if they don’t get their way. And keep this in mind:
This is the eleventh in a series of blog posts addressing a report by Diego Escobari and Gary Hoover covering the 2019 presidential election in Bolivia. Their conclusions do not hold up to scrutiny, as we observe in our report Nickels Before Dimes. Here, we expand upon various claims and conclusions that Escobari and Hoover make […]
The post Red Herrings: Escobari and Hoover’s Geographic Controls and Common Trends Add Nothing appeared first on Center for Economic and Policy Research.
Although the House of Representatives has yet to conduct any business due to a far...
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A lot of what I was doing on my recent trip was Tech Support For The Elderly and please, Tim Apple, make it easier!
Years ago it was somewhat true that Apple products "just worked" but really now they are as complicated as Windows or Android products.
Years ago it was somewhat true that Apple products "just worked" but really now they are as complicated as Windows or Android products.
It’s infuriating that he had to deal with that but it’s a pleasure to watch someone so capably slap that nonsense into tomorrow. I don’t normally think Democrats should waste their breath on Fox because they are usually just there as target practice. Buttigieg is one of the very few who has the talent and the temperament to handle it with lethal class. These people are so shameless. When you think about how Trump took his toxic spawn on trips all over the world, including to meet the queen of England, it makes your head explode. He even had that airhead Ivanka running meetings at the G8. Please.
To win the bloc of rebels thwarting his rise, McCarthy was apparently prepared to agree to conditions that he had not been previously willing to accept. That includes reinstating a rule that would allow a single lawmaker to force a vote to remove the speaker, effectively placing himself at the mercy of his detractors who could trigger a vote at any point.
“I obeyed my conscience rather than the law,” ex-Defense Intelligence Agency analyst Ana Belén Montes declared on her way into a federal prison. Accused of spying for Cuba, she is a hero on the besieged island, where she foiled countless US destabilization operations. On January 8, 2023 the US has to release a federal prisoner who is known as one its most notable opponents of treatment of Cuba since its revolution. She is Ana Belén Montes, and she will be […]
The post Honored in Cuba and condemned by Washington, Ana Belén Montes walks free from federal prison appeared first on The Grayzone.
Greetings from the gurney. I’m the woman you’re about to cut open, and I’d like to start by saying that I’m supremely grateful for this scheduled c-section. As I lounge around in your hospital’s finest full-body napkin dress with a peekaboo butt, it’s nice to know that my ten-pound breech baby and I won’t end up like a couple of dead extras on Clive Owen’s operating table in The Knick.
Rest assured, I’m not one of these high-maintenance patients who arrives with lace-bound, scented copies of an 85-page birthing plan; I do find it quite chilly and bright in this operating room, but I am more than happy to sacrifice ambiance so that you can all see which organs you’re shuffling around down there.
In Asian media this week – Indonesia to be an active ASEAN chair. Plus – South Korea’s global aspirations; Western and Asian views of the West; Anwar pledges to crack down on corruption; Softer tones in Taiwan rhetoric; Kishida’s diminishing political capital. Indonesia this year is the chair of ASEAN and The Jakarta Post lists Continue reading »
Moscow has now warned that Japan’s ‘openly unfriendly positions’ make delayed peace treaty talks impossible. Australia has some connections with those ‘unfriendly positions.’ They include joining in sanctions against Moscow over the war in Ukraine. Sanctions are an ugly business and Moscow is right to react against them. They can be as destructive to a Continue reading »