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With Bernie Sanders’s endorsement of Hillary Clinton has come a split among his “progressive” supporters. Some, perhaps most, say that it is time for Berniecrats to unite behind Hillary and […]

Bernie’s wins yesterday were certainly encouraging, while only his loss in Massachusetts was a bit of a surprise. Hillary Clinton won 7 of the 11 States at issue; but 5 […]

So, the Democratic presidential primary contests are now nearly at “Super Tuesday.” Bernie Sanders narrowly lost in Iowa, won big in New Hampshire, lost by a clear margin in Nevada, […]

Or, I might add, for any other obligation the Federal government cares to honor. Some time ago, in the pages of USA Today, Duncan Black, better known to some as […]

This book is about a counter-narrative to austerity politics. It exposes its fallacies, and, I hope, its closed-mindedness and futility. It also offers a way out of austerity politics. That […]

About 6 years ago I stopped posting at my All Life Is Problem Solving site, and shifted my blogging over to other sites devoted to economics and politics, often blogging […]

We need big, big changes in the United States. Many of them will require the Federal Government to spend unprecedented amounts, including deficit spending to enable us to solve problems […]

This is how the mission of the President’s National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform was defined by the White House on February 18, 2010: The Commission is charged with […]

Below is an excerpt from my most recent e-book: Real Fiscal Responsibility, Vol. I: The Progressive Give-up Formula. The book is volume I of II critiquing austerity politics at the […]

Most of the world, and most notably the United States, are in the grip of fiscal myths fostered by the ideology of neoliberalism. There is virtual unanimity across the major […]