Why won’t Hillary Clinton listen? Is she just afraid of admitting that she’s wrong? That’s a frightening personality characteristic to have in a presidential candidate. Besides, the truth is that Hillary Clinton does quote economists all the time - when it suits her needs. Jim over at Irregular Times has put together a long list of quotes of Hillary Clinton citing the opinions of economic experts - elites, as she puts it.

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Merrill Lynch and Citigroup lobby for the interests of top investors and gigantic corporations. They lobby against the interests of small Main Street business owners, and John McCain is right there with them.

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Right wing politicians often quote Calvin Coolidge, who said, in defense of the economic status quo, “Don’t expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.”
I ask, why not expect such a thing? After all, don’t the strong build themselves up by holding down the weak?

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Deforestation accounts for 20 percent of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions. Reduce deforestation, and you’ll reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and slow down global warming.
There are two ways that this can be accomplished.
First, there’s the progressive way. We can stop deforestation now, through international cooperation between our government and the government of other nations.
Second, […]

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When I was kid, trying to understand the scale of money, the way that I could always make a dime or a dollar concrete was to think about how many gumballs it could buy. At the time, gumballs were just a penny each. That’s no longer the case, unfortunately. It’s hard to […]

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A few days ago, I started to look at a series of pairs of occupations (using publicly-available data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics) to see how well or how poorly they fared during the Bush years, measured according to inflation-adjusted hourly income in 2001 and 2006. Let’s consider now the complete set of […]

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