us economy
Bernanke's confirmation in doubt
By Mark Bahnisch on January 26, 2010
A number of US financial blogs are reporting that Ben Bernanke faces a chance of failure to be confirmed by the American Senate for a second term in office. James Bianco at The Big Picture has all the details, and [...]
Posted in International, Markets, Politics, USA | Tagged alan greenspan, barack obama, Ben bernanke, central banks, Fed, federal reserve, global finance, global financial crisis, gordon brown, health care, ideology, James Bianco, Markets, Massachussetts, Naked Capitalism, neo-liberalism, Politics, Scott Brown, Senate, The Big Picture, us economy, US politics, Wall Street | 15 Responses
Open Obama Inauguration thread
By Mark Bahnisch on January 20, 2009
If you’re staying up to watch Barack Obama’s inauguration as 44th President of the United States of America, Crikey has a good guide to coverage and commentary on tv, live streaming, live blogging and twitter. Locally, Hoyden About Town is [...]
Posted in Afghanistan, Blogging, Economics, Film, TV, Video etc, Foreign policy, International, Iraq, Media, Middle East, Nationalism, Politics, The Web, USA | Tagged Afghanistan, America, Australia, barack obama, coverage, FDR, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, global financial crisis, global politics, healthcare, inaugural address, inauguration, Iraq, live blogging, Martin Luther King, Robert Gates, US alliance, us economy, US politics, War, world politics | 93 Responses
2009: The year ahead
By Mark Bahnisch on January 2, 2009
As is traditional in Australia, the first day of the new year saw the release of cabinet records from thirty years ago at state and federal level. Incidentally, the underwhelming nature of what was revealed should put a big question [...]
Posted in Activism, Climate change, Economics, Energy, Environment, Government, Health, Howardia, Industrial Relations, International, Markets, Media, Policy, Poverty, Sociology, The Web, USA | Tagged barack obama, cabinet, Climate change, Employee Free Choice Act, healthcare, John Howard, Kevin Rudd, Media, neoliberalism, new media, political economy, political sociology, Politics, predictions, press gallery, Rudd government, social democracy, social networking, unionism, us economy, US politics | 18 Responses
Economic and political disconnects (and the sociology of knowledge)
By Mark Bahnisch on December 3, 2008
It’s hard to know whether to blame the pollies or the press gallery more for the sorry standard of political and economic debate in this country. Did that golden age Paul Kelly used to talk about when Paul Keating had [...]
Posted in Consumerism, Economics, Government, International, Markets, Media, Sociology, USA | Tagged ALP, barack obama, behavioural economics, cats claws, collective action, dialectic, economic management, economic sociology, economists, fiscal policy, George W. Bush, global financial crisis, interest rates, Julia Gillard, Julie Bishop, Kevin Rudd, Labor, liberals, LIBOR, lived economy, Malcolm Turnbull, non-farm growth, Paul Krugman, political economy, reserve bank, Rudd government, shared realities, social construction, Sociology, sociology of knowledge, unemployment, us economy | 18 Responses
The state of capitalism today II
By Mark Bahnisch on October 13, 2008
SocProf over at The Global Sociology Blog and I must be reading the same things, and thinking along similar lines, because I had planned to link to precisely the same articles she highlights in an update to my recent post [...]
Posted in Apocalypse, Disasters, Economics, Europe, Foreign Elections, International, Markets, Media, Nationalism, Politics, Sociology, USA | Tagged ALP, banks, Ben bernanke, Canadian election 2008, Capitalism, credit crisis, credit crunch, deregulation, economic crisis, economic policy, federal reserve, financial meltdown, financialisation, globalisation, gordon brown, Immanuel Wallerstein, interest rates, Kevin Rudd, krondatieff cycles, Labor, liquidity crisis, neo-liberalism, New Labour, political economy, politics & government, recession, regulation, social democracy, socialism, Sociology, stephen harper, stock markets, subprime mortgages, TARP, Tony Blair, us economy, US election 2008, USA Election 2008, Wall Street, Will Hutton, world economy, world systems theory | 28 Responses
The good, the Maverick and the ugly: dispatches from the Straight Talk Express
By Kim on October 13, 2008
With less than a month to go til America votes, barring any more mad game changing moves or even an October Surprise from Osama Bin Laden or the tattered remains of the Bush administration, all the smart money is on [...]
Posted in Activism, Culture, Film, TV, Video etc, Foreign Elections, Nationalism, Race, USA | Tagged barack obama, base, Culture Wars, economic crisis, financial crisis, GOP, hate speech, hate talk express, John McCain, Lindsay Beyerstein, macaca moment, maverick, Peter Martin, Republican National Committee, RNC, sarah palin, us economy, US election 2008, USA Election 2008, youtube | 70 Responses
The state of capitalism today
By Mark Bahnisch on October 9, 2008
Iceland may be a barometer for what’s changing in the world economy. It was only very recently that the Milton Friedman fan club was hailing Iceland as a “Nordic Tiger”, lauding its flat taxes and praising its “economic freedom”. “Economic [...]
Posted in Activism, Consumerism, Culture, Economics, Ethics, International, Markets, Media, Politics, Poverty, Sociology, USA | Tagged alan greenspan, ALP, Andrew Crook, banks, Ben bernanke, Bill Clinton, Capitalism, credit crisis, credit crunch, deregulation, economic crisis, economic policy, federal reserve, financial meltdown, financialisation, globalisation, gordon brown, Guy Rundle, Iceland, interest rates, Kevin Rudd, Labor, liquidity crisis, Mark Davis, Milton Friedman, neo-liberalism, political economy, politics & government, recession, regulation, social democracy, socialism, Sociology, stock markets, subprime mortgages, TARP, us economy, US election 2008, USA Election 2008, Wall Street, world economy | 89 Responses
"The gloves are off"
By Mark Bahnisch on October 7, 2008
The McCain campaign has gone into full on negative smear mode, with Governor Sarah Palin playing the traditional attack role of the Vice-Presidential candidate. Apparently Obama has been consorting with terrorists, because he once knew a member of the Weathermen [...]
Posted in Economics, Foreign Elections, Markets, Sociology, USA | Tagged barack obama, Bill Ayers, Culture Wars, domestic terrorism, financial crisis, John McCain, negative campaigning, Rev. Wright, sarah palin, Sociology, us economy, US election 2008, USA Election 2008, Wall Street, weatherman, Weathermen | 108 Responses
House Republicans – quote of the week – it's Dostoevsky, stupid!
By Kim on October 3, 2008
Timothy Garton Ash, writing in The Guardian, has picked it:
Posted in Economics, Levity, Markets, Politics, USA | Tagged American politics, credit crisis, financial markets, GOP, House Republicans, TARP, Thaddeus McCotter, us economy, Wall Street | 14 Responses
US economic crisis policy links post; and Obama and the economy
By Mark Bahnisch on October 2, 2008
<img src="http://larvatusprodeo.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/fdr.jpg" align=left One point of view that’s been expressed about the financial markets crisis can be summed up by something I read at Crooks & Liars today: Have you noticed that every person suddenly knows everything there is to [...]
Posted in Economics, Foreign Elections, Poverty, Sociology, USA | Tagged barack obama, blogosphere, credit crisis, economic policy, economic sociology, Economics, FDR, financial markets, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Karl Polanyi, New Deal, New New Deal, political economy, Sociology, TARP, us economy, US election 2008, us treasury, USA Election 2008, Wall Street | 10 Responses
The Obama inauguration: some interesting links
By Mark Bahnisch on January 21, 2009
There’s probably literally millions of reactions to Barack Obama’s inauguration on the intertubes today, so I wanted to try to highlight some more specific articles and posts which raise some interesting issues which might otherwise get lost in the crowd. [...]
Posted in Climate change, Economics, Foreign policy, International, Markets, Middle East, Palestine, Politics, The Web, USA, War | Tagged America, Australia, barack obama, Christine Milne, Climate change, commentary, coverage, Democrats, economic policy, fiscal stimulus, Gaza, global finance, global financial crisis, global politics, globalisation, inaugural address, inauguration, Keynes, Keynesianism, Middle East, post-partisan politics, reactions, regulation, rhetoric, us economy, US politics, War, world politics | 8 Responses