There is the occasional writer I envy, not because I covet his/her "voice" or style or subject and such, but rather his/her access. Joe Nocera has been "promoted" from the business page to the main op-ed page, and today talks with a Real Banker. What's revealing, and you should always read Joe just because, is that the Banker asserts what many of us in the anti-Banker wing have been saying: banking is only a Yenta for money. When bankers decide that they should get rich on the process, the process itself is distorted.
Boy howdy.
What happens to capital when there's no more labor to replace?
Essays on topics economics: monopolists, oligopolists, and oligarchs aren't better decision-makers for the society just because they's rich and they ain't the damn gummint.
Gutting the Civil Service will put Trump where Garfield ended up
The Kleptocracy of Trumpistan, 49% Dictatorship, Welcomes You
The world is not linear.
-- Dr. McElhone/1974
Well, I'm going to do it, whether the women like it or not. I'm going to protect them.
-- The Orange Shitgibbon©anon./2024 [y'all get burkhas]
-- Dr. McElhone/1974
Well, I'm going to do it, whether the women like it or not. I'm going to protect them.
-- The Orange Shitgibbon©anon./2024 [y'all get burkhas]
There's a fine line between one person and 10 people with H5N1. By the time we've detected 10, it's probably too late.
-- Rick Bright/2024 [read the report, and this]
-- Rick Bright/2024 [read the report, and this]
Buck {Showalter] has always reminded me of something his father once told him:
"The jobs that are easy don't pay very well."
-- Mike Lupica/2023 [and don't qualify them to run anything; sub-GED knuckledraggers take note]
-- Mike Lupica/2023 [and don't qualify them to run anything; sub-GED knuckledraggers take note]
-- Marriner Eccles/1951
This Week's thought
There are many people living in fear right now. The economy is going to be
horrible in Arizona if they start massively deporting people. -- Irayda Flores/ 2024 [y'all voted for The Utterly Unhinged©; it's your bed, sleep in it]
See you next week in a brand new show©Heckle and Jeckle
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Left wing economist since before it was fashionable
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