NP - The Myth of a Jobless Recovery

[alice wellintown]

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/07/opinion/krugman-the-big-fail.html?_r=0

On Thursday, January 10, 2013, Bekah wrote:

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> http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/11/us/11iht-letter11.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&_r=0
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> WAY OF THE WORLD
> Economists, Consensus and Healthy Debates
> By CHRYSTIA FREELAND | REUTERS
> Published: January 10, 2013
>
> SAN DIEGO — This is a tough time for experts.   Empowered by the Internet
> and embittered by the sour economy, many people doubt the wisdom of expert
> elites.   Journalism sometimes casts further doubt by seeking polarized
> positions that can draw an attention-grabbing debate, or by taking refuge
> in he-said-she-said accounts to avoid the harder job of figuring out who’s
> right.
>
> Now one tribe of specialists — economists — is striking back.   Concerned
> that the great unwashed have come to see all economic proposals as being
> equally valid, theUniversity of Chicago Booth School of Business has led an
> effort to figure out what economists agree on, where they diverge and how
> certain they are about their views.
>
> *
> Much more at the site.
>
> Bekah
>
>
> On Jan 10, 2013, at 6:57 AM, alice wellintown <alicewellintown at gmail.com<javascript:;>>
> wrote:
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> > I think you are dead wrong.
> >
> >
> > This We you speak of is not most people in the world. Most people are
> > doing better. First, more are alive and eating better. More live in
> > better environments. These are the facts. There are major problems,
> > sure, most of them caused not by most people but by a small percentage
> > in the West. Get used to it. People outside your  world are doing a
> > lot better and are not going to shut down growth and development to
> > save the planet.
> >
> >
> >
> >> Faith in the MSM economists who completely missed the coming 2008
> meltdown
> >> is like Charlie Brown asking Lucy to hold the football. The real myth is
> >> that current economic activity is building something that constitutes
> real
> >> wealth. We appear to be doing quite the opposite: insuring global
> climate
> >> disaster (Australia is burning, the arctic melting), maintaining
> inefficient
> >> oversized homes and wasteful transit with billions of acres of lawns to
> be
> >> mowed, Fracking, spreading poisons everywhere and then eating from the
> top
> >> of the food chain, Drilling in the most dangerous conditions after many
> >> disasters, depending on fossil fuels and GE corn for our food supply,
> >> depending on China and other foreign countries for most manufactured
> goods,
> >> spreading terror through drones spying and military occupation and
> >> intimidation, spending a huge percent of our medical budget on for
> profit
> >> bureaucracies,  spending trillions we don't have on shit we don't want
> or
> >> need while going in debt to gangster banksters who own the legal system.
> >> Maybe I'm wrong. Maybe things are just getting better and better.  It's
> >> morning in America...
> >>
> >>
> >> On Jan 9, 2013, at 4:47 PM, Phillip Greenlief wrote:
> >>
> >> in the film, THE CORPORATION, corporations themselves qualify as
> >> psychopaths, when examined by your basic psych intake ...
> >>
> >>
>
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