Yearly Archive: 2016
Bridgeport City Council Meeting Next Tuesday
A quick reminder before your holiday weekend begins that there will be a Bridgeport City Council meeting this coming Tuesday, September...
Jobs And Other Data Do Not Support September Rate Hike
August’s unemployment numbers were released today and they hardly show an economy that is on the verge of overheating. 151,000 new...
Inequality And Income Under Thatcher And Blair
There is an interesting new study out that compared the growth of income and the rate of inequality in the UK...
Price-Gouging Mylan Is Also A Tax Deserter
Mylan, the company that has jacked up the price of their lifesaving product EpiPen in anticipation of their patent running out,...
Wall Street Colludes To Avoid Being Tested
One of the great teachers of my childhood used to quote Socrates, saying, “the unexamined life is not worth living.” If...
Animal News
Some good news but more bad news in the animal kingdom these days. First of all, authorities in South Carolina have...
"Huge" Costs Of Climate Agreement Turn Out To Be Not So Huge After All
One sure-fire way to scare people is to throw out a big number without any context at all and I will...
Wall Street Actually Does Very Little That Is Useful These Days
Financial firms share of GDP has increased globally in the last few decades due to increasing financialization. In 2010, the total...