Eschaton

The austerity story always had as much of a logic to it as did the underpants gnomes, which is to say absolutely none. Who could have predi...

Not that I think it would help much, but the sociopaths who run the ECB decided not to cut rates again.

Rock harder. Ted Leo

Be excellent to each other.

Rock on. The Wire: The Musical with Michael Kenneth Williams from Michael Kenneth Williams

Gotta fricassee Martin Wolf's turkey. Before now, I had never really understood how the 1930s could happen. Now I do. All one needs ar...

enjoy

Apparently there are some voting-related program activities going on there today.

At some level this isn't at all surprising, a sort of "duh" result , but I think people tend to miss the broader implications....

The people who think it's really hard to get by on $250,000 per year think that things should work just fine if everybody else doesn...

Certainly sounds pretty gross.

Enjoy.

Right now all the money boys spend their days trying to figure out just when the big free money bazooka will come out, who will bring it out...

Dean Baker: The world doesn't work that way. Firms create jobs when they have more demand, not because we are nice to their rich owners...

It's long been a mystery to me why so many Very Serious People think an increase in the gas tax is a total impossibility due to Teh Poli...

There is a tradeoff between number of stops and speed. The Port Authority will eliminate 13 little-used stops on the Light Rail Transit sy...

There's always free money for the banks. The Portuguese government will inject €6.6bn into three of the country’s largest banks, using...

Awesome. A group of long-term unemployed jobseekers were bussed into London to work as unpaid stewards during the diamond jubilee celebrati...

Air Occupy will be on at 11:00 a.m., discussing the resistance by corporate interests to discuss climate change. Our very own V will be le...