Middle Class Political Economist

I grew up in a middle-class family, the first to go to college full-time and the first to earn a Ph.D. The economic policies of the last 40 years have reduced the middle class's security, and this blog is a small contribution to reversing that.

Showing posts with label austerity. Show all posts

Showing posts with label austerity. Show all posts

Sunday, February 12, 2017

Meanwhile, back in Ireland

We've gotten to another point where it's hard for me to turn on the TV . I know this will have to change, but for now I'll go ba...

Friday, January 1, 2016

Ireland still isn't back

Ireland remains, in some circles, a poster child for austerity's success: It paid off its bailout loan early! It regained its 2007 Gros...

Monday, July 13, 2015

Impending disaster in Greece

Paul Krugman analyzes the debacle in Greece. Although Greeks voted barely a week ago to reject the bailout terms offered by the EU, which c...

Monday, January 26, 2015

Greece may be first head-on challenge to Eurozone austerity

Yesterday Greece elected a new anti-austerity party, Syriza, to lead its next government. New prime minister Alexis Tsipras has pledged to ...

Monday, December 1, 2014

Basics: The German Euro is Undervalued

I keep telling people that the German euro is undervalued, but some folks seem not to believe me. (See the comments section from this post ...

Saturday, September 20, 2014

Irish Austerity Exodus Lingers On

August brings us the annual Irish immigration data, so it's time to look at what has happened in their statistical reporting "year...

Thursday, January 23, 2014

Cost of Recession and Austerity in Convenient Clock Form

You've probably heard of the U.S. Debt Clock. I'm not linking to it because its goal is to strengthen deficit hysteria, one of the t...

Tuesday, January 21, 2014

France Flirts with Recession as it Incomprehensibly Embraces Austerity

Dean Baker and Paul Krugman are just two of the economists who have noted recently that French President François Hollande has lost his mi...

Tuesday, October 22, 2013

Irish Austerity Exodus Continues

The Eurozone experiment in austerity continues to fail as the peripheral countries endure ongoing cuts. Following up on my post of August 15...

Thursday, August 15, 2013

Annals of Austerity FAIL, Eurozone Redux

July 31 saw the latest release of European Union unemployment numbers, and Monday's gross domestic product figures brought no joy, espec...

Friday, May 3, 2013

My appearance on "The Big Picture" with Thom Hartmann

Here is a link for my appearance on Thom Hartmann last night. One of the things brought up was a new study by the Institute for Policy S...

Thursday, May 2, 2013

Appearing tonight on "The Big Picture" with Thom Hartmann

I will be talking austerity tonight with Thom Hartmann on his show, "The Big Picture." The program reaches 50 million homes in th...

Thursday, April 25, 2013

Unemployment Hits New Highs in Spain and France

As if there were not already abundant proof of the failure of austerity in the eurozone, the BBC reports today that both Spain and France ...

Wednesday, April 24, 2013

Reinhart/Rogoff Gets the Colbert Treatment

Via Paul Krugman , Steven Colbert takes on Reinhart and Rogoff. Also be sure to check out his interview with Thomas Herndon .

Tuesday, February 26, 2013

Europeans Dreaming Up New Ways to Destroy the Global Economy; Republicans Follow Suit

While we are busy paying attention to the 550th edition of Republican-caused fake crises (aka the sequester), a much more real crisis is bre...

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Kenneth Thomas: Professor Emeritus of Political Science, University of Missouri-St. Louis. Author of Competing for Capital: Europe and North America in a Global Era (Georgetown University Press, 2000) and Investment Incentives and the Global Competition for Capital (Palgrave, 2011). Available for research, consulting, and expert testimony. All opinions expressed are my own and not my employers'.

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