Category: Politics
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Weekend Open Comments
I guess there’s no media bias: Chicago, August 11, 2011 – This week U.S. Senator Dick Durbin held a press conference with members of the mainstream media to talk about the downgrade crisis. But the Senator’s scripted storyline veered off-course when a conservative reporter – me – showed up to ask an embarrassing question. Namely,…
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The Unaconomist Calls for Stagflation to Fix our Economic Woes
No matter how blue I get I can always count on Paulie K to cheer me up: What would a real response to our problems involve? First of all, it would involve more, not less, government spending for the time being — with mass unemployment and incredibly low borrowing costs, we should be rebuilding our…