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[Matthew Yglesias] Matthew Yglesias » The Bad Economics and Worse Political Science ...: In political terms, though, the actual performance of the economy in 2012 is going to be much more important to Obama’s re-election than the budget deficit. In particular, by directing its policymaking more at the things that the public thinks are the cause of economic problems rather than the things that economists think are the cause of economic problems, the administration is making is running a huge risk of GOP takeover of the House in 2010.

[The Market Oracle] Obama's Junk Economics, Democrats Relinquish the Populist Option ...: UK Interest Rates Forecast to rise much higher due to rising Inflation and high Money Supply Growth. Emerging Markets outlook for 2007 - India, China, Russia, Eastern Europe and Brazil .

[slash News, Politics, Business, Technology, Entertainment] The grand Zionist façade | Middle East | slash news: David Brooks disguises Israel's second round of colonial expansion that began in June 1967 as a diversion from the main goal of Zionism, a distraction created by "stray" settlers in Hebron. The close to half a million Jewish settlers in East Jerusalem and the West Bank, supported, financed, and protected by the world's fourth most powerful military are minimised as "stray" settlers in Hebron, who are a problem only because they are surrounded by "angry" Palestinians.

[The Rates Blog] Blogging On Interest Rates, Economics & Business in New Zealand: Even after winning championships and being surrounded by future Hall-of-Fame players, Lombardi had a tradition of beginning every preseason training camp the same way. He stood before his players, football in hand, and said, “Gentlemen, this is a football.” He assumed his players were a blank slate at the beginning of each season.

[News] Official: tax rises don't help the economy - Telegraph Blogs: However, the problem remains the Brown government is overspending its revenue from tax and non-tax sources by around 30% and, according to the PBR, will continue to so into 2012. If increasing taxation is not an option, are you suggesting government spending be cut by 25-30%?

[Daily Markets] Economic Recovery: The Unresolved Mysteries | Daily Markets: Another mystery. How could government be so inept as to shoot itself in the foot whenever it pulls a trigger?

[BBC NEWS | Stephanomics] BBC - Stephanomics: 'China Syndrome' at Davos: As the UBS economist Larry Hathaway points out, even if the Chinese current account surplus (in effect, the "excess" that it lends to the rest of the world in return for buying so many Chinese goods) fell to 2% of GDP over the next few years, instead of the 6% of GDP now forecast, at most that could only add about 0.2-0.3 percentage points to US and European annual growth. And that's if those countries were able to take full advantage of the shift in demand.

[The Big Picture] The Big Picture » Blog Archive » Monday Reading: Talks to resolve a crippling three-week tractor blockade of highways and border crossings in Greece by farmers collapsed today, increasing the pressure on a government grappling with the country’s worst financial crisis in decades. The farmers refused to back down in the row, which is seen as a crucial test of Athens’ determination to impose austerity measures that will salvage Europe’s most indebted economy.

[Comment is free: Michael Tomasky's blog | guardian.co.uk] Michael Tomasky: The proverbial two-car funeral | Comment is free ...: Since the foiled terrorist attack by Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the Nigerian national on Northwest Flight 253 to Detroit, the President has repeatedly stated that there has been a systemic failure as he reiterates his commitment to fill this gap in our security. This incident, like the Fort Hood shooting, exemplifies why our government must apply every valid preventative approach to identify a potential terrorist.

[The Blue Blog] The Blue Blog » Message from Davos: The increase in financials baseing there companys in the UK would bring investment and employment our economy desperately needs, and would provide a windfall to prop up other businesses and the governments budget. Obama is following the same economic policys that lead to this recession on a far grander scale unprecedented budget deficits and artificially low interest rates.

[Walter Russell Mead's Blog] Can Global Warming Be Reborn? - Walter Russell Mead's Blog - The ...: These readers may not have gotten my motives right but they understood my position better than those who thought I was attacking the science of global warming.  I don’t actually think I’ve got the science background to pontificate on the science of climate change.  There is a broad though not a universal consensus among serious climate scientists that the earth is getting warmer, that human activity has something to do with it, and that unless we make some changes the warming of the earth will continue until things become unpleasant in a number of ways. At the same time, beginning last fall with the hacked emails from East Anglia, and accelerating in the last couple of weeks with a steady stream of revelations about high profile assertions in the IPCC’s reports, a flow of news stories in the UK and elsewhere  makes it increasingly clear that some scientists and institutions who are prominent in the climate change debate have made some serious errors in judgment and in some cases have made claims about the impact of climate change that do not have serious scientific backing.

[Real-World Economics Review Blog] The Revival of Political Economy « Real-World Economics Review Blog: The new political economy in the making should address the issue of sustainability: economic, social and environmental. Prosperity - the purpose of any economy - can no longer be separated from social justice and environmental values.

[Adam Curtis Blog] BBC - Adam Curtis Blog: Kabul: City Number One - Part 7: This is totally not connected to anything about Afghanistan, it probably is a bit in the sense that everything is more connected than we think at first glance, which is one of the things that looking at the contents of this blog demonstrates again and again. Anyway I ve just been doing some very basic research into land ownership in the UK, Kevin Cahill wrote an excellent book called "Who Owns Britain", demand that your libraries get a copy immediately.

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