by J. Jerrald Hayes | Feb 20, 2019 | • Politics, Climate Change & Global Warming, Economics & The Economy
How to pay for the Green New Deal The Green New Deal has recently been promoted by a group of Democrats including the inspirational . I first came across it in a in 2008 by the Green New Deal , most of whom are pictured above a decade later ( Andrew...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Feb 16, 2019 | Economics & The Economy, Income Inequality
Everyone knows governments need to tax before they can spend. What Modern Monetary Theory presupposes is, maybe they don’t. The Radical Theory That the Government Has Unlimited Money Photo illustration by Lia Kantrowitz Tall, bearded, with gentle brown eyes,...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Feb 16, 2019 | Economics & The Economy, Income Inequality
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Feb 16, 2019 | Bernie Sanders, Economics & The Economy, Income Inequality
Asher Edelman endorses Bernie Sanders – Business Insider The real life Gordon Gekko is supporting Bernie Sanders because of a basic economic principle Asher Edelman, an investor who was one of the inspirations for the nefarious corporate raider Gordon Gekko in...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Feb 15, 2019 | • Politics, Bernie Sanders, Economics & The Economy, Income Inequality, Jobs
Mentioned in the video: WPA — Works Progress Administration – Wikipedia Basic income – Wikipedia What Is A Federal Jobs Guarantee? | HuffPost Job guarantee –...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Jan 25, 2019 | • Politics, Economics & The Economy, Income Inequality
AOC Thinks Billionaires Are a Threat to Democracy. So Did Our Founders. In 1835, Alexis de Tocqueville produced one of the earliest accounts of the American dream. In his famous study of the Jacksonian U.S., the Frenchman wrote that Americans possessed “the...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Jan 10, 2019 | • Politics, Economics & The Economy, Income Inequality
Since 1982, America’s Three Wealthiest Families Have Grown 6,000% Richer – The Intellectualist America’s three wealthiest families have seen their wealth grow nearly 6,000 percent in just one generation, according to a recent report, while median...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Jan 6, 2019 | • Politics, Economics & The Economy, Income Inequality
I have been listening to talks by Mark Blyth ( Wikipedia) all this weekend and he is changing my mind about a lot of things. I find myself thinking NeoLiberalism is more and more dangerous and destructive than I had ever thought before. Mark Blyth is a professor of...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Jan 5, 2019 | • Politics, Economics & The Economy
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Nov 12, 2018 | Economics & The Economy, Income Inequality
They Don’t Just Hide Their Money. Economist Says Most of Billionaire Wealth is Unearned. – Evonomics Inequality By Didier Jacobs The concentration of wealth from rent-seeking The 62 richest people in the world own as much wealth as half of humanity. Such...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Oct 24, 2018 | • Politics, Economics & The Economy, Income Inequality
A disturbing analysis of the growing inequality in this “great country” by the American economist and winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2001 Joseph Stiglitz. The American Economy Is Rigged Americans are used to thinking that their nation is...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Oct 7, 2018 | • Politics, Donald Trump, Economics & The Economy, Income Inequality, Jobs
West Virginia poverty gets worse under Trump economy, not better West Virginia has a growing poverty problem, and experts there who study the issue say Americans in every state should pay attention. The Appalachian state is, along with Delaware, just one of two states...
