Wenn die Logik des Haushalts nicht die des Staates ist Im Februar 2024 kündigte die französische Regierung ein Sparpaket von 10 Mrd. € an, um das fiskalische Defizit zu senken. Politico berichtete: “Wir verdienen weniger, wir geben weniger aus”, sagt Finanzminister Bruno Le Maire. Diese Logik gilt zwar für einen Haushalt, aber nicht für eine nationale Regierung wie die von Frankreich. Warum? … Wenn Frankreich die Staatsausgaben kürzt und die anderen...

The recurring bleat of vaccine denialists is that COVID should be addressed through “herd immunity.” Well, OK, a vaccinated population has herd immunity, but that’s not what they mean. They mean herd immunity in the sense of the Black Plague—the people who didn’t die were immune.Apart from all the deaths caused by COVID infections in unvaccinated people, there’s the issue of long COVID. While its etiology is poorly understood, its reality is certain....

I am not sure I would call this similar to Chicago politics. Which is something I lived with or observed for a number of years. It is a bit of crooked mixed with a bit of silly. Read on . . . Low move by high court may nullify Arizona votes on Make Elections Fair Act, AZCentral The Make Elections Fair Act would flush Arizona’s partisan primary election system down the toilet. It will be on the ballot in November. And we all will vote on...

Largely speaking direct labor is not the issue of costs have I have presented in another post. It is the overhead such as healthcare insurance which can better handled in another manner. Inflation grows and minimum wage income is stagnant. Studies have found little or no job loss due to Minimum Wage Laws, Economic Policy Institute There is always political heat around minimum wage increases, largely driven by concerns about job losses. The...

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Today (October 3, 2024), MMTed releases Episode 6 in the Second Season of our Manga series – The Smith Family and their Adventures with Money. Have a bit of fun with it while learning Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) and circulate it to those who you think will benefit. Episode 6 was delayed by two weeks…William Mitchell — Modern Monetary TheoryEpisode 6 of the Smith Family Manga (Season 2) is now availableBill Mitchell | Professor in Economics and Director of the Centre of Full Employment and...

A lot of investors are fixated on price and they don’t focus on the process. It’s the latter you need to focus on. 

I picked up the novel that the following quotation is from because I think I recall Kress participating in conversations on Usenet years ago. This novel ended up more a political argument than I expected. It is for Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs), done right. We should rather strive for plants for food resistant to insects, not resistant to pesticides, for example. I assume that Kress agrees with her heroine. "He had spent the two-week winter vacation from school,...

As Category 4 Hurricane Helene approached the Florida Panhandle, a number of Republican senators and representatives voted against supplementing disaster relief in a government funding extension which was passed by both houses of Congress. Many of the Republican lawmakers voted against the provision of additional necessary funding to the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) represent states that were hit particularly hard by Hurricane...

I just finished reading “The Achilles Trap: Saddam Hussein, the C.I.A., and the Origins of America’s Invasion of Iraq” by Steve Coll. By the onset of the US invasion and military occupation, I was convinced that (a) Iraq had no WMDs or active WMD programs, and (b) there was no collusion between Saddam and al Qaeda. The idea that Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein were allies was facially absurd. Bin Laden was a religious zealot and Hussein was...