Federal Reserve – CALL ME MAGGIE

January 7, 2013

Why Paul Krugman should be President Obama’s pick for US treasury secretary | Mark Weisbrot | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk

I already signed an online petition. You should as well: Nominate Paul Krugman. …for the post of treasury secretary, to replace the outgoing Tim Geithner, Obama could afford to make another bold choice: Paul Krugman. Krugman would be tough to… Continue reading

December 21, 2012

There is no fiscal crisis. And macroeconomics is not a morality play.

Nice overview of how things stand vis. the “fiscal cliff.” The Puritanism that surrounds how most people talk about debt–esp. government debt–really irritates and shows the lasting influence of Christian dogmatism on our sociocultural situation. Sometimes I cannot tell if… Continue reading

November 21, 2012

The Widening Divide Between Wall Street and Washington | TIME.com

Interesting op/ed at Time.com from the Curious Capitalist. Corporate finance is global. Politics remains local. Situating ourselves within the dialectic betwixt economics & policy is very much an important affair in facing up to the Society of Control & its… Continue reading