Some responses: http://economistsview.typepad.com/econo ... e-top.html

It wasn't a cheap shot. It was the truth. Adios.

America, Land of Free Passes. Shout whatever you want, contradict yourself, walk away with your political convictions in tact. "The essence of the liberal [small 'L'] outlook lies not in what opinions are held, but in how they are held: instead of being held dogmatically, they are held tentativ...

As if this conversation is irrelevant to that point.

Yes, that's the voice of reason. Which is completely antithetical to the Ryan Budget; to the official GOP economic platform; to your original comment.

I'm curious, how do you think this economy was built? Let's just take a couple related examples. How are you able to use that computer to send words to all of us? How did you acquire the technical means, and how did you learn to read, write, and toss around all those numbers from the beginning of th...

meddian wrote:go capitalists! I love free Enterprise...so the left can tell me how, where, and when to spend my money that I earned on MY hard work and investments. thanks

Explain what you mean by that. What are you being forced to do? Purchase health insurance, maybe?

This thread has proven that people hate numbers. , no really what is the Economic analysis of an Italian academic institute have to do with what I said. Rich get richer because they use SHORT term debt to gain while the poor use LONG term debt to fund McDonald's, beer, and flat screens. This is all...

http://www.epi.org/m/?src=http://www.epi.org/files/2011/bp331-figurel.png&w=588 "More than 94 percent of the gains in wealth from 1983 to 2009 accrued to the top fifth of wealthiest households, with 40.2 percent of the gains going to the wealthiest 1 percent and 41.5 percent going to the n...

The unemployment rate among workers under 25 is 16.5 percent. Taxes for the 1% have increased? Income divergence continues unabated. Ryan's budget, which Romney says he would enact in his first 100 days in office, would achieve short-term deficit reduction by focusing on cutting programs for the poo...

rf53, curious, what anti-business policies are you referring to? Clean-air rules? New controls on deep-water drilling? New rules for the financial industry? Will the coal, oil, and financial industries be unable to profit when they're required to operate in a socially-responsible manner? Do we lose ...

Report by the Tax Policy Center: Why Some Tax Units Pay No Income Tax

http://www.urban.org/uploadedpdf/1001547-Why-No-Income-Tax.pdf

http://motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2012/02/how-much-do-we-spend-nonworking-poor Thanks for that, flight. These should be go-to's for all these "spending" debates: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2012/02/13/us/politics/2013-budget-proposal-graphic.html http://www.nytimes.com/packages/htm...

http://bit.ly/xwFJw6

Video of the rioting. Long weekend in Athens?

Live Reuters coverage of events in Greece.

http://live.reuters.com/Event/Greek_Debt_Crisis