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What is that? Things like Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. (Blank stare) You post things on it like family newsletters and pictures of your pets. And you chat. Chat? Type messages to your friends. Like a phone call? Exactly! Social media channels are used by millions of people every day. They’re a great way to communicate …

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Debt/Defict Hawkery is bad economics. What matters is not the absolute size, it is the payments. If you’ve ever bought a house or a car you know it’s highly unlikely that you showed up at closing with a wheelbarrow full of cash, dumped it on the desk and said, “Here.” If you had a check …

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I get to write about this one because TMC doesn’t think the headline is strong enough. While we are not prudes here, her proposal would make a sailor blush and I’m not sure how to transcribe the scream of rage that punctuates the end. Also I have EpiPens, at her suggestion. I have pretty serious …

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It’s no secret I think that the Trans-Pacific Partnership is the worst “trade” deal ever representing a complete corporate take over of the United States government and the end of democracy as we know it (oh, it’s also bad economically and excuses actual factual 18th and 19th Century style slavery). All 4 Presidential Campaigns (Green, …

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It is my contention that the United States has turned into a nation of cowards. You can see the signs everywhere from Helicopter Parents to Whites who think street crime is rampant (especially from those people, you know the ones I’m talking about) when in fact it’s been in precipitous decline ever since we stopped …

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Yes, I know I talked about him yesterday but that was more focused on his anti-TPP positions. He also did a couple of interviews, one with Salon and one with Yahoo Finance Canada, discussing his view that the Euro as we know it is doomed. I told you I agreed with him a lot. Now …

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I understand why people think I’m in the tank for Krugman, I quote him a lot and I have a signed first edition of End This Depression Now but the truth is I only do that (and also with my other usual suspects) when it suits me, which is to say when he makes a …

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I think we can all agree that things that smell like food, but aren’t, are an inherently bad idea. I make a marginal exception for things like Strawberry Lip Gloss and Beeswax Chapstick which are at least not actively harmful, but if you have a Pumpkin scented candle in your house you’re only making me …

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I have no idea how many of you are Comic Book Graphic Novel Nerds like I am (the very term “Graphic Novel” leads me to suspect it was invented by a Geek, not that there’s anything wrong with that) so indulge me in a brief examination of the Kirbyverse. Without investing in too many details …

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What are “Capital Controls”? Well, they’re basically laws that keep people (and corporations) from sucking Billions of dollars in revenues and resources from your country and taking it someplace else. It’s really not too strong to call it National rape. Now back in the bad old days before “Free Trade” it was acceptable for a …

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The Washington Post’s TPP Challenge By Dean Baker, Center for Economic and Policy Research 21 August 2016 Those folks at the Washington Post are so much fun. Now that it looks like the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) might fail, the Post challenges TPP critics, “if not the Trans-Pacific Partnership, then what?” Let’s see, the Obama administration …

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I hope my readers don’t need to be reminded of the policy reasons the Trans Pacific Partnership is a bad deal. It would make this piece about 4 times as long. Instead I’ll focus some on the political issues. Remember, Barack Obama has already declared that he’s going to seek passage during the Lame Duck …

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