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.

Friday, January 31, 2014

Obamacare Roundup: Great enrollments for Wellpoint; "Bette from Spokane" debunked

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Via Joan McCarter , we learn that Wellpoint , which runs a number of for-profit Blue Cross/Blue Shield insurance plans, reported on an inves...
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Thursday, January 23, 2014

Cost of Recession and Austerity in Convenient Clock Form

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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...
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Wednesday, January 22, 2014

January Tax-Cast Focuses on Romney's Favorite Tax Haven

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The January Taxcast , from the Tax Justice Network, is just out.Though of course it says nothing about Mitt Romney, there is a great deal of...
Tuesday, January 21, 2014

France Flirts with Recession as it Incomprehensibly Embraces Austerity

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Dean Baker and Paul Krugman are just two of the economists who have noted recently that French President François Hollande has lost his mi...
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Saturday, January 4, 2014

Boeing Saga Ends with 51% Favoring Revised Contract

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As I argued last month, the Puget Sound area of Washington state was easily the best place, from a strictly economic point of view, for Boe...
Thursday, December 26, 2013

Watch this Link: Will Heritage Scrub Its Obamacare History?

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Mike the Mad Biologist leads me to a host of articles on the crazy things going on at Heritage Foundation, especially since former Senator ...
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Wednesday, December 11, 2013

America's Most Wanted: Boeing

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Boeing is America's Most Wanted Corporation in two senses. First, now that the Machinists' union in Washington state has refused the...
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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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