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the troublesome economist skip to main skip to sidebar the troublesome economist saturday december 19 2015 bank of japan more innovative than us fed the bank of japan has begun a modest purchase of the stock of japanese firms that expand the economy by investing in their factories or by raising workers pay the boj is doing what it can to support capital spending and investment in human resources says the bank s governor in contrast the american central bank buys billions of dollars buying bonds owned by banks u s corporations have tapped the markets for trillions of dollars in recent years yet they have plowed relatively little of the money into new operations american firms have been on a binge of buyouts and mergers further adding to oligopolies the stock market and junk bond markets love this business investment as a percentage of gross domestic product has remained below historical levels since the great recession the government has not helped public investment spending as a share of overall economic activity has fallen to lows not seen since the 1940 s nyt dec 18 2015 p b 8 this has pleased the tea party and other know nothings but it has done nothing to fill road chuck holes and repair dangerous bridges meanwhile american passenger rail lines are the laughing stock of europe and its high speed trains posted by allan schmid at 9 08 am no comments labels fiscal stimulus institutional economics monday december 29 2014 does the world get you down this is my last blog the world is so fuxxed up that it is not possible to comment on all its absurdities besides it is too depressing the only way to preserve sanity is to look at it with rose colored glasses so i shall devote myself to things of beauty such as poetry and literature if you have not seen my historical novel the quest for land and fortune may i urge you to go to amazon and get a copy while they last it is narrative non fiction the people are all real but what they said to each other and what sort of blogs they might have written is fiction i was not there the new york times of december 28 2014 had a section entitled the year in pictures i list the cut lines to illustrate my point 01 09 2014 displaced people on ferry led fighting between government forces and rebel in south sudan 02 24 women took shelter from sniper fire in the ukraine 02 19 anti government protestors burned barricades in the ukraine 04 17 a protestor hurled a molotov cocktail during clashes with police caracas venezuela 04 30 a lockdown drill to address the threat of school shootings in a eighth grade class belle plaine mn 03 12 a girl was wounded between riot police and anti government protestors istanbul 05 05 mourners attended funeral of julia izotova 21 killed during clashes between ukrainian troops and pro russian separatists 05 11 civil war set of a vast food crisis among the malnourished were a mother and her 5 month old malakal south sudan 07 09 mexican authorities deported miners on a flight back to el salvador 07 24 relatives look into a hospital operating room at those injured in an israeli air strike gaza strip 08 15 palestinians prayed in the rubble of a mosque gaza city 07 01 a jewish woman prayed during the funeral for three israeli teenagers who were killed in the west bank 07 02 migrants traveling toward the us on a train known as the beast because of violent crime tenosique mexico 09 23 a marina owner on the boat dock in the dried up huntington lake cal 08 25 michael brown sr mourns as his son s coffin is lowered st peters cemetery normandy 08 27 yameen ritaj 16 left her abusive husband during her pregnancy refugee camp jordan 09 05 medical workers took james dorbor 8 into a ebola treatment center liberia 011 25 police clash with pro democracy demonstrators hong cong 11 28 senator mitch mcconnell re elected from kentucky he has declared global warming a hoax spread by those who dislike his state s coal 10 18 displaced persons camp where 140 000 have been uprooted myanmar 09 27 a cradle left behind by kurdish refugees along the turkish syrian border 11 28 protest because grand jury decided not to indict daren wilson in the killing of michael brown delwood mo 12 08 protestors against police brutality in the wake of michael brown berkeley 12 16 women mourn mohammed ali khan 15 one of 130 students killed during a taliban attack on a school peshawar pakistan 11 18 ultra orthodox jews listened to a eulogy for a rabbi killed in a synagogue by palestinian gunmen jerusalem 12 06 a four year old known as sweetie one of thousands monitored for symptoms of ebola sierra leone i add one event that does not photograph the new republican congress has vowed to cancel obama s affordable care act i suspect that much of the opposition is a continuing racist reaction to the black president see what i mean during the vietnam war depressed by the daily body count i stopped listening to network news i never began again today i canceled my subscription to the new york times thanks for following my blog if you want more i recommend following bill moyers and robert reich posted by allan schmid at 1 52 pm no comments labels political economy politics war wednesday december 3 2014 big oil spoils north dakota big oil companies in north dakota said their impact on the environment would be minimal they lied the citizens of tioga witnessed the largest land oil spill in recent american history in september 2013 also in 2013 the locomotive of an oil train derailed and exploded in a collision near casselton this year north dakotans discovered illegally dumped oil filter socks a source of hazardous radiation a landfill with waste from oil fields is near the banks of the missouri river some families experienced dirty drinking water one company in fact sued three activist landowners in 2011 seeking damages for trespassing after the men tried to document what they believed was the cover up of a saltwater spill federal wildlife agents asked the oil companies to cover their waste pits as migratory birds sometimes dived in they were refused thirty percent of the natural gas produced in the state was being treated as a byproduct and burned off spoiling the air for neighbors the oil drillers are lightly regulated by the three member north dakota industrial commission composed of the governor attorney general and the agricultural commissioner in their eagerness to gain great wealth the state largely let the oil companies police themselves the oil companies made contributions to the governor s campaign in 2012 a total of 550 000 from oil related executives a family signed a lease and saw their first well drilled in 2008 then june 2011 they were informed that burlington resources intended to create a 30 883 acre oil production unit that would override their lease agreement instead of receiving royalties for their land the revenues would be split by all owners in the mega unit the mega unit would include part of the little missouri state park three storage tank batteries inside park boundaries the family learned that their consent was not required only 60 percent of the unit s owners were needed and burlington together with the federal government land already amounted to 60 this freed conoco phillips successor to burlington from boundary lines that required 200 foot set backs from the borders of each production unit the companies would not have to negotiate easements or rights of way for pads roads and pipelines dec 20 2013 the commission approved the mega unit this amounts to private eminent domain taking of land by private companies for their own benefit source new york times nov 23 2014 posted by allan schmid at 12 57 pm no comments labels environment institutional economics land use law and economics political economy thursday november 27 2014 thanksgiving there are still some things to be thankful for like not living in buffalo ny apologies to buffaloes posted by allan schmid at 8 26 am no comments monday november 24 2014 identity in a world where 2 billion more people have entered the workforce since 1989 the insecurity of those suddenly forced to compete that much harder was always bound to grow if you re one of the beneficiaries of this massive upheaval you re fine but for the millions who fear they are losing out and who see their town or country changing around them including through immigration it s natural to hold on tight to and fiercely defend an identity that feels safe and familiar jonathan freedland writing in the guardian uk 21 nov 2014 cultural arguments are taking the place of what used to be bread and butter issues the republican party has exploited this very cleverly while they turn the bread and butter toward the very rich when will the 90 figure it out and when will the democrats figure out that identity politics is where it s at posted by allan schmid at 12 45 pm no comments labels political rhetoric sunday november 16 2014 neo liberals and the office of information and regulatory affairs oira cass sunstein was appointed head of oira from 2009 2012 and led it to delay and eviscerate a host of environmental regulations pres reagan created the office ostensibly to improve decision making by insisting on benefit cost analysis of all rules but industry used it to escape and delay regulation an example of its over reaching and bizarre twists is to count lost pleasure from smoking as an off set to health benefits of reduced smoking besides early death saves health care costs over the smokers lifetime they claim all of this is justified by the neo liberal championing of what they call liberty enhancement if some want to kill themselves they should be free to do so this is a neat trick that diverts blame from systemic corporate malfeasance to individuals this is documented in robert kuttner obama s obama harpers december 2014 a must read by those interested in good government and avoidance of the siren song and paternalism of the neo liberals obama does not come off well sunstein and obama prove once again that smart and wise are not the same thing posted by allan schmid at 9 49 am no comments labels free market political economy political rhetoric virunga congo oil companies are circling virunga national park in the congo home to several endangered wildlife species such as mountain gorillas the oil company thugs stoop to bribery and murder the government is silent saying they must support anything that will lift their people out of poverty one could be more impressed if they were putting a large part of their royalties into a trust fund for all its citizens such as alaska did the congo has been home to natural resource exploitation by the belgians for generations and where are the jobs it was supposed to create any natural resource eventually runs out and the people who get rich are government officials and foreign companies source nyt 16 nov 2014 posted by allan schmid at 9 07 am no comments labels environment immigration social justice political rhetoric 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