by J. Jerrald Hayes | May 9, 2019 | • Politics, The 2020 Presidential Race
Joe Biden Might as Well Be a Republican Recent criticism of Joe Biden for praising Dick Cheney as ” a decent man” and Mike Pence as ” a decent guy ” merely scratches the surface of what’s wrong with the current frontrunner for the...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | May 6, 2019 | • Politics, Democracy
wE’rE a rEPuBLiC nOt A dEMoCRacY | Ed Burmila The most impressive thing about the ubiquitous comment-section incantation “We’re a republic, not a democracy” is its versatility. Those six simple words fill the very different needs of several key...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | May 5, 2019 | • Politics, The Democrats
Opinion | Can We Please Relax About ‘Socialism’? Only in America is the word freighted with so much perceived menace. By David Bentley Hart Dr. Hart is a scholar of religion and a cultural...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | May 5, 2019 | • Politics, Donald Trump, Economics & The Economy, Jobs
Two Charts Show Trump’s Job Gains Are Just A Continuation From Obama’s Presidency There has been a fair amount of rhetoric about the job growth and lower unemployment rate seen since President Trump took office. Candidate Trump touted that there would be...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | May 5, 2019 | • Politics, Alexandria Ocasio Cortez, Economics & The Economy
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is a fan of a geeky economic theory called MMT: Here’s a plain-English guide to what it is and why it’s interesting Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) should be “a larger part of the...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | May 3, 2019 | • Politics, Donald Trump, Economics & The Economy, Income Inequality, Jobs
I was looking around for something that would explain to me exactly what Trumponomics is (other than a random scattershot policy) and while I haven’t really found an answer yet I did come across this interesting video on what Trump doesn’t get or...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Apr 29, 2019 | • Politics, Donald Trump
Five Conclusions From the Mueller Report If there wasn’t collusion, it sure wasn’t for lack of trying. I spent the week after the release of the Mueller report going through it section by section and writing a kind of diary of the...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Apr 26, 2019 | • Politics, Economics & The Economy
This economist and Brown University Professor Mark Blyth circa September 2010 talking about economic Austerity just prior to the publication of his book Austerity: The History of a Dangerous Idea in...
