MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
Order today at Barnes & Noble / Amazon / Books-A-Million / Bookshop
|
|
|
From the Readers
- barefooted 9 months ago
- PeraclesPlease 10 months ago
- PeraclesPlease 12 months ago
- PeraclesPlease 12 months ago
- PeraclesPlease 1 year ago
- PeraclesPlease 1 year ago
- artappraiser 1 year ago
- PeraclesPlease 1 year ago
- PeraclesPlease 1 year ago
- artappraiser 1 year ago
Creative corner
- PeraclesPlease 11 months ago
- PeraclesPlease 1 year ago
- PeraclesPlease 1 year ago
- artappraiser 1 year ago
- artappraiser 1 year ago
From the Dagbloggers
- Michael Wolraich 11 months 3 weeks ago
- Danny Cardwell 3 years 2 months ago
- Doctor Cleveland 3 years 11 months ago
- PeraclesPlease 4 years 1 month ago
- PeraclesPlease 4 years 1 month ago
- William K. Wolfrum 4 years 1 month ago
- William K. Wolfrum 4 years 1 month ago
- Doctor Cleveland 4 years 2 months ago
- Doctor Cleveland 4 years 2 months ago
- William K. Wolfrum 4 years 3 months ago
Hits of the Day
More than half of Americans say the U.S. economy is in a recession or a depression
By we are stardust on Sat, 04/30/2011 - 12:36pm | More than half of Americans say the U.S. economy is in a recession or a depression despite official data that show a moderate recovery, according to a poll released on Thursday.
The April 20-23 Gallup survey of 1,013 U.S. adults found that only 27 percent said the economy is growing. Twenty-nine percent said the economy is in a depression and 26 percent said it is in a recession, with another 16 percent saying it is "slowing down," Gallup said. [snip]
The Gallup poll found that Democrats are the most likely to say the economy is growing. Forty-three percent of Democrats said the economy is in a recession or depression, 13 percent said it is slowing down and 42 percent said it is growing.
Sixty-eight percent of Republicans and supporters of the conservative Tea Party movement said the economy is in a recession or a depression. Fourteen percent of Republicans and 13 percent of Tea Party supporters said the economy is growing.
Fifty-seven percent of independent voters -- a crucial segment of the electorate for Obama's re-election bid -- said the economy is in a recession or depression and 24 percent said it is growing.
How very unsurprising.
URL:
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/04/28/us-usa-economy-gallup-idUSTRE73R3WW20110428?feedType=RSS&feedName=domesticNews
- Add new comment
- 1253 reads
Comments
And washingtonsblog linked to Krugman's The Sham Recovery.
by we are stardust on Sat, 04/30/2011 - 12:51pm
This chart showing the portion of the population that has jobs tells it all:
Full employment is around 64% of the population employed (as seen in 2000). We've now been stuck at 58% for the last two years, with not much of a sign of improvement. Those six percentage points amounts to about 18 million people who want jobs and don't have them. And that isn't counting all the millions who have only part-time jobs and want full-time work.
There is no sign that those jobs are coming back, nor that the administration even intends to do ... anything ... to try.
On top of that, you have this:
57 percent of Americans think the worst of the economic crisis is yet to come — a stunning 18-point increase since January and the highest in at least seven months.
And they're probably right.
by Obey on Sat, 04/30/2011 - 2:11pm
Stunningly sad and frightening, Obe. I'm pretty sure the figures don't include the many sole proprietors who attempt to 'innovate' their own jobs, either. And get punished for their sins thru the tax code and SS.
There isn't a chart you see any more that has any good news for us, but plenty of corporate profits, like alcoa and cheveron (hey, Condi!). I do wonderr what talk happens in the Oval Office: do they even care any longer about re-election, if not the welfare of Americans?
That so many believe the next bubble will soon burst is at least realistic, I guess. No one will be able to call it a Black Swan event. Did you see Geithner just exempted all the foreign currency swaps fron regulation under Dodd-Frank? Fuck. What a tool.
On the lighter side, gas prices here (I know, Europe has been more realistic) are almost at $4. Yves Smith posted some cartoons. Like this one.
You gettin' enough sleep, dear? Ah do worry...ya know? ;o)
by we are stardust on Sat, 04/30/2011 - 3:04pm
Yes, I'm sleeping fine. Just my biological clock is out of whack with all the traveling.
And I'm eating my greens too.
;0)
by Obey on Sat, 04/30/2011 - 3:36pm
"Yeth, mom." Okay; I deserved it, LOL! Glad to hear, though, Obeycakese... Drink your seeds, too. ;o)
by we are stardust on Sat, 04/30/2011 - 4:51pm
Here's a good blog on it too. From naked capitalism.
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2011/04/guest-post-gallup-poll-shows-that...
by cmaukonen on Sat, 04/30/2011 - 9:00pm
Thanks, C. It was Washington's blog that I found both my original links. Yves often carries his posts, and washington sometimes posts the Anthony Freda anti-war/pro-justice artwork I use on some of my diaries. He's a good guy, and sends me his new work now for possible (I guess you'd say) collaboration. The NYT used one recently; pretty cool for him!
Washingtonsblog: he has been all over events and dangers at Fukushima.
by we are stardust on Sun, 05/01/2011 - 8:35am