Joseph E. Stiglitz is shrill: America’s inequality distorts our society in every conceivable way. There is, for one thing, a well-documented lifestyle effect—people outside the top 1 percent increasingly live beyond their means. Trickle-down economics may be a chimera, but trickle-down behaviorism is very real. Inequality massively distorts our foreign policy. The top 1 percent …
Archives for April 2011
They try to make him have a recall
And it works: Wisconsin Democrats now say they have more than enough signatures to launch a recall of Republican state Sen. Dan Kapanke, in the battle over Gov. Scott Walker’s (R) new law curtailing public employee unions. They are filing the petitions today — less than halfway through the 60-day window for gathering the signatures. …
Big Pimpin, Spendin’ Cheese
I knew things had gone nuts in NH, but apparently the Speaker and the NH House Majority Leader have completely lost their shit. Yesterday, the Speaker: Demonstrators interrupted budget discussion in the New Hampshire House, leading to a clearing of the public gallery, officials said. House Speaker William O’Brien put the House in recess and …
Those faces pressed against the window, they are just my friends
Vote breakdown by income (from Ezra Klein), in the 2010 midterms. Real Murkins make over 200K a year, as you can see. It’s those elitist young bucks making under 50K that hate America.
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Mid Morning Open Thread
I am pleased to report that Max’s training is going well. Happy April 1st.
Open Thread: Only in Ankh-Morpork
Melissa Bell, Washington Post blogger, “bemoans” the end of a rival city’s latest (inadvertent) tourist advertisement: It’s official: the Bronx Zoo Cobra has been found. I’m glad the poor zookeepers can get back to business as usual, but I do mourn for one thing: the end of one of the best New York City advertisements …
Job news
Even the liberal Atrios thinks today’s job report is “decent news”. It’s pretty clear the markets are responding to the clarity of House Republicans’ policy goals.