Tag Archives: Economics

Ron Paul Questions Bernake

Ron Paul Questions Bernake This kind of stuff is why Ron Paul drives me nuts. He raises some very serious issues but he does not know when and where to make those points.

The Good, The Bad, and The Ambivalent Candidate

On April 7th, James Surowiecki wrote his the New Yorker article Going for Broke: In recent months, a lot of people have been handed financial get-out-of-jail-free cards. C.E.O.s who presided over billions in losses have walked away with tens of millions in compensation. The Federal Reserve has showered cheap money on banks and brokerages. Even  Read more »

More Foreign Workers… Please?

April first is a big day for the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) .  On April first, every year, the USCIS starts taking applications for new H1-B visas for the coming year.   The H-1B is a non-immigrant visa issued by the USCIS.  These visas allows U.S. employers to employ foreign guest workers.  However, these  Read more »

Paul Krugman on “Experts”

Today in his NY Times sponsored blog, "Conscience of a Liberal", Paul Krugman points out the lunacy in te financial news media.  The very people who cheered on the kinds of activities and processes that led to the current housing and credit crises are still being given front and center positions to talk about what  Read more »

Beyond Red and Blue

The Christian Science Monitor has a new project called Patchwork Nation on their website.  About the Patchwork Nation project Nearly 305 million people live in the United States, according to the US Census Bureau. Yet in recent elections it’s all been about fitting into two categories: red states that vote Republican and blue states that  Read more »