Tag: Economics

  • Household Budgets–politics style

    Earlier, I made the case that you can’t really compare the federal budget to your personal budget, because it is too simple. Matt Bors makes the case that maybe it really is pretty simple, after all… [NOTE: Don’t be afraid to click the second link; it’s just a cartoon.]

  • Seperate and Unequal: income inequality in the U.S.

    Some have spent the better part of the last thirty years describing the dramatic economic shift toward the greater concentration of wealth in the ultra-wealthy, and the adverse effect this has had on the average American.  Some have even chosen to mock this concern in recent years, suggesting that “redistribution of wealth” is something to…