I never got around to finishing what was intended to be a thoughtful commentary on this Harper’s article, but since John posted about this earlier, I’m going to give you all the link, at least. Frederick Kaufman, “The Food Bubble: How Wall Street starved millions and got away with it”: Agriculture, rooted as it is …
Fuck The Poor
Good News for People Who Love Bad News
Break out the champagne, spending on healthcare is down: The economic crisis in the United States has reduced the use of routine medical care, and the cutbacks here are much deeper than in countries with universal health care systems, researchers say in a new report.
Wrong About Everything
These guys are reaching Bill Kristol levels of prediction making: As 2010 began, there was nearly unanimous agreement in financial circles on at least one thing: Interest rates were sure to rise during the year. Quite to the contrary. As Labor Day approaches, interest rates have collapsed, plunging along with economic optimism. That turn of …
Whose “Anchor” Baby?
The SPLC continues its marathon efforts to give a voice to the silenced: Mississippi officials conspired to take the infant of an illegal immigrant from Mexico so the girl could be adopted by a white couple, a civil rights group charged Thursday in a federal lawsuit. The Southern Poverty Law Center said Cirila Baltazar Cruz …
Shell Game
With a record number of people on food stamps, it just makes good fiscal sense that Congress keeps cutting that program to pay for other aid programs. For some reason, this little snippet from a Lindsey Graham interview seems relevant: We have been in Korea for, you know, since the end of the Korean War. …