Let’s face it. This is the election from hell. Continue reading The Election From Hell: Trust, Trade, Jobs & #HillaryEmail on Blog#42
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Profiling The Angry American In This New Political And Economic Era | Blog#42
Economist Jared Bernstein has a very thoughtful piece in WaPo in which he analyzes why there is anger among the U.S. electorate. Continue reading Profiling The Angry American In This New Political And Economic Era | Blog#42
In Trump’s America, Which Democrat Will Republican Voters Pick: #BernieSanders or #HillaryClinton? | Blog#42
As conservative pundits wring their hands over the disaster that this primary season has been, Continue reading In Trump’s America, Which Democrat Will Republican Voters Pick: #BernieSanders or #HillaryClinton? | Blog#42
The Progressive-Neoliberal Split Is Over Trade, Jobs, Investment & a Living Wage | Blog#42
The acrimony, this election cycle, has been palpable Continue reading The Progressive-Neoliberal Split Is Over Trade, Jobs, Investment & a Living Wage | Blog#42
Finding Sobriety in 2016: Sanders, Clinton & Trump’s “Grab, grab, grab…” Edition | Blog#42
Finding Sobriety in 2016: Sanders, Clinton & Trump: “We’re going to grab and grab…” Edition
#Limbaugh Attacks Obama’s #Trade Agenda | #TPP irony on Blog#42
Oh, the irony! With Mitch McConnell having spent the last couple of weeks bending over backwards to marshal the troops, even going so far as to praise President Obama for the TPP negotiation. Continue reading #Limbaugh Attacks Obama’s #Trade Agenda | #TPP irony on Blog#42
What we’re arguing about when we’re arguing about trade deals. | Jared Bernstein | On the Economy
What we’re arguing about when we’re arguing about trade deals.
Your Congress in its own words: what they can’t say about the TPP | Blog#42
Here are your representatives in the U.S. Congress, in their own words, about what they are allowed and not allowed to see and do, when it comes to doing YOUR business in the context of a trade agreement that will affect your jobs, the prices you pay for certain things and the legal rights of corporations vis a vis the laws your Congress passed.
This is not how a Democracy is supposed to operate. Continue reading Your Congress in its own words: what they can’t say about the TPP | Blog#42
Responding to Paul Krugman on Trust and the #TPP
I was relieved after a very long period of mostly silence, interspersed with a few non-committal statements on the TPP, to read Professor Krugman’s blog post curated below. But that relief is tempered by the timing and temperature of this position statement. Continue reading Responding to Paul Krugman on Trust and the #TPP
Jared Bernstein: Full Employment, Trade Deficits, and the Savings Glut:
A Fascinating Debate in the Macro Blogosphere
Jared Bernstein | On the Economy | April 2nd, 2015
The macro blogosphere is on fire, as Bernanke, Summers, and Krugman are having a fascinating discussion that starts with secular stagnation (persistently weak demand, even in expansions), adds a strong dose of international trade with an emphasis on the Bernanke savings glut observations, and thus speaks to a lot of what we think about here at OTE.
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