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Do Americans Live Within Their means ? The president seems to think so.

By cmaukonen on Tue, 04/26/2011 - 11:25pm |

This however is generally not the case. Most people in this country are in hock up to their eyebrows. Ted Rall - a columnist I like to read - has some good points on this here.

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23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism

By cmaukonen on Sun, 04/24/2011 - 7:19pm |

I have just been following an online interview/chat on Firedoglake with Ha-Joon Chang and economist that teaches at Cambridge Univ.  discussing his latest book 23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism.  They are listed  here.

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What It Feels Like When a Superpower Runs Off the Tracks

By cmaukonen on Wed, 04/20/2011 - 12:05pm |

Thought I would put this piece from Tom Engelhardt here. A fairly accurate analysis of America's denial.

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Are Americans still outraged ? Oh you betcha

By cmaukonen on Tue, 04/12/2011 - 9:36am |

Well here is a chart that might shed some light on this subject.


From this article in Mother Jones.

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Divisions ÷

By cmaukonen on Sun, 04/10/2011 - 8:00pm |


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They keep going and going and going ..........

By cmaukonen on Sat, 04/09/2011 - 8:24pm |

I really like the idea of a one world government and maybe in about 400 years humanity will have matured enough to actually get one. Donal did an excellent series on why complex societies collapse with talks by Dr. Tainter.

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