Yesterday, a group of people associated with the Occupy group in Washington, D.C. took out a full page ad in the San Francisco Chronicle, declaring that, as the Deficit Reduction Super Committee had failed, they had some ideas to offer as to how we might create jobs, reduce the wealth divide and control spending. Their […]
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“The Super Committee failed: We have a solution…”
Posted in Economics, Politics, Uncategorized Also tagged Bush tax cuts, capital gains, deficit reduction, Deficit Reduction Super Committee, drill baby drill, foreclosure, infrastructure, job creation, Medicare, Medicare for all, military spending, Occupy, Occupy D.C., social security, solutions, Speculation Tax, Stop Tax Haven Abuse Act, subprime mortgage crisis, tax havens, tax loopholes, tax reform, tax the rich, wealth inequality, Works Progress Administration, writing down all underwater mortgages to market value 10 Comments
Harvard students walk out of Econ class they say “perpetuates problematic and inefficient systems of economic inequality in our society”
Apparently several Harvard students enrolled in Professor Greg Mankiw’s Economics 10 class walked out yesterday. Following is their open letter to Mankiw. Today, we are walking out of your class, Economics 10, in order to express our discontent with the bias inherent in this introductory economics course. We are deeply concerned about the way that […]
Posted in Economics Also tagged Adam Smith, economic theory, Economics, George Bush, Greg Mankiw, Harvard, higher education, income inequality, Keynesian economics, Mitt Romney, Occupy Wall Street, student activism, the corporatization of higher education, the growing gap between rich and poor, the politics on envy, walk outs 15 Comments
Eric Cantor tells U-M audience to pull themselves up by their bootstraps
I was doubtful that he’d show up, given that he backed out of an event at the University of Pennsylvania a few days, in hopes of avoiding those affected by the policies he champions, but it looks like Eric Cantor made his scheduled stop at the University of Michigan this afternoon as planned. The following […]