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Ben Bernanke's Jackson Hole speech is out. The full speech is below. The basic gist seems to be: If things don't get better Fed can do more asset purchases, as past QE programs have worked. But there's little in there about extroardinary new measures...

For the past 30 years, my actual paid job (as opposed to my blogging hobby) has been Managing Editor of the Journal of Economic Perspectives. The journal is published by the American Economic Association, which back in 2011 decided--much to my delight...

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Marx wrote these passages nearly 150 years ago, and he was certainly not infallible: in the same letter he suggested optimistically that independence for Ireland might hasten "the social revolution in England." But a great deal of his analysis sounds...

THE ENTIRE REASON BEHIND AMNESTY IS TO KEEP WAGES DEPRESSED, BUILD THE DEMOCRAT PARTY'S LA RAZA SUPREMACY PARTY BASE, AND DESTROY THE GOP SO THE BANKSTER-FUNDED DEMS ESTABLISH A ONE PARTY GOVERNMENT FOR THE 1%, "She said she still gets angry with employers...