Over the past year, I’ve seen these words posted by many of the FP’ers here, and they are thus: “It’s sad to see what passes for happy news about our economy these days.” IMHO, folks are grabbing at straws. Frankly, I get the sense from some that it’s bordering on (wilted) “green shoots” déjà vu. Those talking points didn’t work for our Party in 2010, and they sure as hell won’t do the job for us in 2012.
Perhaps, as Paul Krugman notes in Monday’s NY Times (and if you read the collective commentary of some of the better-known economic pundits in the MSM over the past 48 hours), we really are teetering on the abyss.
Many important opinion pieces on these inconvenient economic realities have been published over the past couple of days. Phenomenal in their succinct and elegantly simple observations of fact, I’m providing links to them, down below. They speak for themselves. Taken together, they provide us with the over-arching narrative on much of what is wrong within our global society, today; and, here in the U.S., where many of our international economic woes began.
Two pieces stand out as bookends to these truths, however. First, as Kossack La Feminista noted in her post here less than 24 hours ago, covering a column in the (UK) Independent by Robert Fisk: “Bankers are the dictators of the West.”
The other bookend to this weekend’s enlightening narrative/commentary appears in Monday’s NY Times, by none other than Paul Krugman, in: “Depression and Democracy.” The opening sentence pretty much says it all…
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