Tag Archives: American Economy

Slate Magazine: Jay Porter: ‘A Small Business Owners Case For Raising the Minimum Wage’

Source:Slate Magazine– a pro-minimum wage rally. Source:The New Democrat “Nine or ten dollars an hour? Twelve? Or all the way to $15? For much of the country, significant minimum wage hikes are coming—at least in the areas where they haven’t … Continue reading

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Hoover Institution: Edward Paul Lazear: How to Energize a Lackluster Recovery

Source:The New Democrat  The U.S. income tax is now the biggest book ever written in the history of the world, at least as far as I know, standing at over one-million pages.  How would you like that for a book … Continue reading

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The Fiscal Times: Mark Thoma: Inequality in Capitalist Systems is Not Inevitable

This post was originally posted at The New Democrat I would describe capitalism, or private enterprise, meaning private businesses and wealth controlled by individuals or groups of individuals, not by the state, as the worst type of economic system in the … Continue reading

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The Fiscal Times: Eric Planin: President Obama Looks to Tax Reform to Save America’s Highways

Source:The New Democrat  This would be an interesting way to raise the much needed revenue to rebuild America’s infrastructure system but, as I’ve argued in the past, we wouldn’t need to go to this length if we created a National … Continue reading

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Townhall: Daniel J. Mitchell: Is America Doomed to Become a Failed European-Style Welfare State?

Source:The New Democrat  One thing I tend to agree on with Progressive economists on is that there isn’t any magic number to attach to how big the public sector has to be or how small it has to be that … Continue reading

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Paul Krugman: ‘Inequality, Dignity & Freedom’

Source:New York Times– left-wing columnist Paul Krugman. Source:The New Democrat “Now that the Congressional Budget Office has explicitly denied saying that Obamacare destroys jobs, some (though by no means all) Republicans have stopped lying about that issue and turned to … Continue reading

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The Fiscal Times: Mark Thoma: How Keynes Would Handle an Abnormally Slow Recovery

Source:The New Democrat  I’m all in favor of trying to boost economic and job growth when the economy is weak with something like a new national infrastructure plan, a National Infrastructure Bank. But when you have a national debt as … Continue reading

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Free Speech TV: Video: The Big Picture With Thom Hartmann: Richard Wolff What to do when Capitalism Fails

The New Democrat Didn’t catch the part about what Professor Richard Wolff would do when capitalism failed. He just said how he believed it would fail and why it would fail but not what would happen next. I could give … Continue reading

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PBS: NewsHour: Shields & Brooks on Pipeline Politics & Chris Christie Scandal

. Source:The New Democrat  The Keystone Pipeline is something that President Obama almost has to do for the economy. And I believe he and Secretary of State John Kerry who are going to have to sign off on this. Because … Continue reading

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Thom Hartmann: Video: Without Government, There is no Middle Class

. The New Democrat Any good business person whose in business to make a lot of money and be very profitable and be able to provide very well for themselves and their families even if they are the only people … Continue reading

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