My first interview at Real Progressives on Monetary realities, including how the Federal Government spends, the absence of legitimate solvency concerns, austerity scares and other related questions.
Donald Trump’s cabinet nominees, along with his current allies in Congress, and among lobbyists, suggest that he is likely to break his frequently stated campaign promises that, if elected, he […]
Recently, I was interviewed by Steve Grumbine at Real Progressives about the idea of Public Purpose. Public Purpose is a term which first came to prominence during the 1970s when […]
Was the Affordable Care Act (ACA) worth it? Should it be seen as a “favorite moment” and “victory,” a legacy of the Obama Administration to build on in the future? […]
Donald Trump has promised a $1 Trillion Infrastructure plan to create jobs, but has been vague about how that would be implemented. In an interesting post, Ellen Brown makes the […]
Keeping in mind that the Federal Government cannot involuntarily “run out of money” because of its constitutional money-creating capacity, then the answer to the question in the title is “of […]
Existing and proposed trade agreements with Investor – State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) provisions fail to support and defend the Constitution, and even subvert it. Here is a partial list of likely […]
The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is now dead in the lame duck, and with Donald Trump’s victory, most probably for good. But, there are remaining issues arising from the Investor-State Dispute […]
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 […]