I've noticed that Krugman's been on a roll the last 2-3 weeks with many more hard right hooks to the jaw than he was wont to throw just a couple of months ago.  Unfortunately those right hooks, even though seeming to connect, aren't doing much to bring the match to its rightful close.... so he keeps punching, with what I perceive to ...

I've always felt that the difference between a "terrorist act" and other acts of armed assault are really no different at all.  The defined difference is generally that a "terrorist act" is designed to terrorize citizens --- civilians, while the other form, or "state sponsored military attack" is designed to assault another ...

I refer to the voting public as the Lesser Pawns and their elected representatives as the Greater Pawns... the only real distinction being in how these pawns are used.   

 

Pawns are the most populus sacrificial members used for offensive and defensive maneuvers in the game of Chess... ...

I've written before on the observation of Economic Cycles ... aka "business cycles" (Feb 16, 2011 note or blog entry of Feb 19).  In my prior note I wrote that the fundamental cause(s) for these cycles isn't known despite the observation and acceptance of their existence since the 1890's.  I also noted that the research on ...

Just a quick piece of information related to economists definition of a "shock" to the economic system (those exogenous things that cause Economic cycles = "shocks").  A shock is defined as some exogenous (external) economic event which only induces a downturn in the economy... those that induce upturns aren't included in ...

Krugman points to the pdf file that details the IRS info on top 400 AGI's since 1990's to 2007 (latest year data from IRS is available).  He points out, from the data, that the top 400 tax-payers received 10% of total US reported capital gains in 2007.  Even in my book that's quite a feat!    Also, on ...

Actually the statement made is more specifically "According to the Tax Policy Center, this tax season, an estimated 45% of tax units will pay no federal income taxes." http://mercatus.org/...

I have discussed the role of educational levels of populations in advancement of progressive or liberal gov't as opposed to conservative or repressive gov'ts.  Until I read a couple of books on the rise of National Socialism prior to Hitler's election, I'd believed that the better educated a population the less likely they will ...

There was something else the House just passed that relates to another religious based issue.... House resolution 3 sponsered by Boehner, passed May 6.  According to the Opinions page Reader's Letter (K. Brady) ...

In my note of May 16 "Economic Cycles - Why They Exist", I used a theoreitcal case of economic stagnation to describe why capital interests must avoid economic stagnation for capital to have any intrinsic value.  In other words capital's value depends on economic growth conditions over the long haul.

 

In that ...

A few days ago (early a.m. of May 20) I evaluated U.S. economic cycles using various aspects of GDP & GDP Growth.  In that analysis it was clear that the US economy has been in steady decline since the early 1980's.
 
Another method of evaluating the overall economy is by how the economy changes with respect to it's ...