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. Originally posted by UtahOwl » Tue Sep 08, 2015 7:58 pm In Phishing for Phools, Nobel Prize-winning economists George Akerlof and Robert Shiller deliver a fundamental challenge to the idea that markets always benefit us, operating efficiently as by an "invisible hand" , arguing that markets harm a...

. What's the Matter with White People? Originally posted by UtahOwl Tue Dec 09, 2014 11:20 am -- 163 views before being transplanted here. What's the Matter with White People: why we long for a golden age that never was, by Joan Walsh, is an interesting description of the disintegration of the New D...

. Common Dreams Editorial – 7/14/2014 (http://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/07/14-1) Exceptional America in Decline: The US Empire as Basket Case -- Though it may still look like a superpower in some respects, Washington seems to have lost the ability to translate that power into anything resemblin...

. Originally proposed by UtahOwl - Thu Aug 08, 2013 12:05 pm – 37 views before being transplanted here. By Mark Blyth,Professor of International Political Economy in the Department of Political Science at Brown University and a Faculty Fellow at Brown's Watson Institute for International Studies. He...

As far as I understand ( which is not nearly as far as you do, John) - you are quite right. I don't see anyone sane putting money behind 30-hr fixed-rate mortgages with the undeniable prospect of inflation coming at some time in the future - certainly within 30 yrs. It's too bad, because frankly no ...

. Originally proposed by UtahOwl - Fri May 03, 2013 3:44 pm – 10 views before being transplanted here. I propose that we read "The Bankers New Clothes: What’s Wrong with Banking and What To Do About It" by Anat Admati & Martin Hellwig. It looks at the problems with today’s banking system, examining ...

The Scandinavian countries are more forward-looking. A small Norwegian company is testing thorium fuel as a replacement for uranium at a reactor in Norway, catching the attention of the conventional nuclear industry, which has acknowledged that thorium could provide a safer and less weapons-prone nu...

. ---------------------------- Original Message ---------------------------- Subject: My Treat - Cannellas - Tomorrow Evening From: readingliberally-saltlake@johnkarls.com Date: Tue, June 11, 2013 4:50 pm To: June Taylor (aka Utah Owl) Nancy Kemp Ted Gurney ------------------------------------------...

. ---------------------------- Original Message ---------------------------- Subject: Re: Meeting Cancellation From: June Taylor Date: Mon, June 10, 2013 6:53 am To: readingliberally-saltlake@johnkarls.com Cc: ReadingLiberallyEmailList@johnkarls.com --------------------------------------------------...

. The Measure of a Nation - HS Friedman Originally proposed by UtahOwl » Tue Feb 05, 2013 12:15 pm – 6 views before being transplanted here. The Measure of a Nation: How to Regain America’s Competitive Edge and Boost Our Global Standing, by Howard Steven Friedman, is avalable from Amazon in paperbac...

. ---------------------------- Original Message ---------------------------- Subject: Quorum Failure and Brief Meeting Summary From: readingliberally-saltlake@johnkarls.com Date: Thu, February 7, 2013 3:47 am To: ReadingLiberallyEmailList@johnkarls.com -----------------------------------------------...

NBC has released a DOJ memo outlining the Administration's legal arguments for targeted assassinations of American citizens. In the NBC News article that follows below, it is made clear that the undated DOJ memo is an informal "white paper" and NOT the Opinion of the DOJ Office of Legal Counsel that...

. http//:billmoyers.com/2013/02/01/barack-obama-drone-ranger/#1 [Reading Liberally Editorial Note: It would appear that the following essay posted on Bill Moyer’s website was designed for pickup by newspapers around the country as an OpEd piece.] On Democracy – Barack Obama, Drone Ranger By Bill Moy...

. Bill Moyers Transcript Are Drones Destroying Our Democracy February 1, 2013 BILL MOYERS: If you’ve seen or only heard about the film “Zero Dark Thirty” you know that it’s triggered a new debate about our government’s use of torture after 9/11. DAN in Zero Dark Thirty: Right now, all this is about ...

. Editorial Note: Each month, the person who suggested the book that was voted our focus at the previous month’s meeting is offered the option of preparing the Discussion Outline. June Taylor, aka Utah Owl, prepared the Discussion Outline. She is the head of radiology research for the U/U Hospital. ...