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MAGA Mike And John Thune Should Spend A Week At Stony Brook With Stephanie Kelton
Trump has a lot of costly campaign promises he wants to keep, starting with a huge tax cut for the wealthy. But Congress can’t find the...
Howie Klein
7 hours ago9 min read
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Republicans Hope No One Notices When They Cut Medicaid While Pretending The Cuts Aren’t Really Cuts
Even MAGAts May Notice Hundreds Of Billions Of Less Dollars Though Republicans have a dilemma. In order to cut taxes for the very rich—...
Howie Klein
Apr 33 min read
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The Common Ledger
A Post-Capitalist Renaissance -by Haydar Khan If the past century taught us anything, it’s that dystopia isn’t inevitable— but neither is...
Howie Klein
Mar 299 min read
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We Can Spend Enough To Meet Our People's Needs— Politics Is About Who Determines What The Needs Are
Thomas Witkop’s Tutorial With Stephanie Kelton On his blog yesterday, Noah Smith noted that European Greens got their asses kicked in the...
Howie Klein
Jun 14, 20244 min read
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Billionaires Shouldn't Exist— But Not Because We Need Their Money For Anything
The Only Need Is To Keep Them From Doing Harm With It Earlier today, in a discussion that began with the misuse of the word “moderate” as...
Howie Klein
Jun 13, 20244 min read
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Trump's Economic Agenda Leads Directly To Severe Inflation, And Probably Staflation
The MAGA Agenda Basically Wipes Out The Savings Of The Elderly We’ve been warning about the threat of bloodshed lately, but there’s more...
Howie Klein
Jun 3, 20247 min read
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Stephanie Kelton: “The National Debt Is Exactly The Opposite Of What The Orthodox Story Tells Us”
Last month I gave a talk about the economics of the Music Business at Stephanie Kelton’s interdisciplinary course at Stony Brook that...
Howie Klein
May 17, 20242 min read
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If Things Keep Going Wrong, Will Elon Musk Or Jeff Bezos Take Us To Another Planet?
Neal Walia is a candidate for Congress in Denver (CO-01), a deep blue district where Biden beat Trump, 75.6% to 22.1%. Blue America...
Howie Klein
May 22, 202210 min read
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Inflation Pressures Through The Lens Of Modern Monetary Theory-- A Guest Post By Andrés Bernal
Andrés Bernal is a Research Fellow at the Global Institute for Sustainable Prosperity, a Lecturer with City University of New York, and...
Howie Klein
Jan 5, 20225 min read
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Progressives Offer A Better World; Conservatives Offer A Hobbesian-Nietzschean One
David Benatar is so pessimistic that he made a strong case for not being born. He believes that life is so bad, so painful, that human...
Howie Klein
Nov 29, 20216 min read
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Zach Carter Is Much More Than Just Brutalism
Any Blue will most certainly NOT do-- especially now that the Republican Party has transmogrified into a genuine authoritarian fascist...
Howie Klein
Sep 23, 20216 min read
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MMT-- The Time Is Now, Not Next Year Or Next Month, NOW
During the summer between graduating James Madison High School and going SUNY, Stony Brook, I worked on the mayoral campaign of Upper...
Howie Klein
Sep 12, 20215 min read
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Conservative Democrats Are NOT Moderates-- They're The Republican Wing Of The Democratic Party
Six of the worst of the corrupt corporate Democrats in the House-- Josh Gottheimer (Blue Dog-NJ), Kurt Schrader (Blue Dog-OR), Jared...
Howie Klein
Aug 10, 20216 min read
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Of Course Biden Will Allow 10 Conservative Senators To Dictate The Terms Of An Infrastructure Bill
Late yesterday, 10 conservative senators, half conservative Democrats and half conservative Republicans-- typical DC faux...
Howie Klein
Jun 11, 20215 min read
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