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Mark Thomas on the Modern Debt Jubilee – Steve Keen’s Debtwatch

Comedian-activist Mark Thomas hosts The Manifesto on BBC Radio 4, in which he and his studio audience consider proposals for a People???s Manifesto on topics ranging from the sublime to the ridiculous. Somewhere in the middle, there???s serious stuff … Continue reading

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In Defense of Deficits – James K. Galbraith in The Nation

The Simpson-Bowles Commission, just established by the president, will no doubt deliver an attack on Social Security and Medicare dressed up in the sanctimonious rhetoric of deficit reduction. (Back in his salad days, former Senator Alan Simpson w… Continue reading

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