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Mike Lofgren: The Austerity Trap – Is Past Prologue? – Should Germany Grant Debt Relief as It Was Granted Debt Relief?

The Austerity Trap: Is Past Prologue? Mike Lofgren, Huffington Post, 10/11/2012 9:42 pm A German chancellor touts austerity as the sovereign remedy for the worst global economic crisis in most people’s memory. Why? The great inflation of 1923 is still so seared into the consciousness of the German political class that keeping the stability of …

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Chuck Spinney: Mike Lofgren and Bill Moyers on US Political Dysfunctionality

Mike Lofgren on Dysfunction in Our Political Parties August 31, 2012 Bill talks with Mike Lofgren, a long-time Republican who describes the modern dysfunction of both the Republican and Democratic parties. In Lofgren’s view, Republicans have become overly obsessed with obstructing President Obama, and the Democrats suffer from political complacency. Lofgren’s new book is The …

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Chuck Spinney: Mike Lofgren on Taxation Reality, Media Ills

How the media enable the Republican tax agenda By Mike Lofgren, Nieman Watchdog, Commentary, January 18, 2012 Mike Lofgren, the former Republican congressional staffer who recently decried the descent of the GOP into lunacy, blames the press for not holding politicians accountable for their budgetary flimflam in the service of the rich. The result: A …

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