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Today All That Matters Is That Kamala Beats Trump— But What Happens When She Becomes President?
Biden Let Something Good Happen— Will Kamala Sell It Out? I know, I know… everybody’s supposed to say what a great president Biden was...
Howie Klein
Jul 28, 20245 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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FDR's Second Bill Of Rights Is What Electoral Politics Should Be About, Not Who The Greater Evil Is
Yesterday I mentioned I had had dinner with Stephanie Kelton the evening before. I forgot to mention a couple of things we talked about....
Howie Klein
May 18, 20249 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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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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Deficits Don't Matter-- As Long As The Money Is Spent Productively
No one ran up the national debt like Trump-- and no one seemed to care, even though the debt increases during his 4 years were...
Howie Klein
May 29, 20215 min read
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The GOP Talking Points... Weak
The GOP was out in full force last week, trying to make the case against the super-popular Biden COVID-Rescue package. Friendly...
Howie Klein
Mar 15, 20215 min read
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