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The Economic Idiocy of Economists

Mark Weisbrot, Comment Is Free. January 22, 2012.

With a brain trust like this, a lost decade for America looks likely – unless the citizenry can steer a different course.

Crazy Economists Are Still Defending The Wall Street Bailout As The Recession Gets Worse

Dean Baker, AlterNet. August 6, 2010.

Economists are still spinning fairy tales so they can celebrate bank bailouts. Too bad everybody's still broke and out of work.

Priceless: How the Federal Reserve Bought the Economics Profession

Ryan Grim, Huffington Post. September 14, 2009.

The Federal Reserve so thoroughly dominates the field of economics that real criticism of the central bank has become a career liability for economists.

Obama and Senate Dems Prepping for Quick, Massive Stimulus Package

Sam Stein, Huffington Post. November 24, 2008.

"I want to see [a stimulus package] enacted right away. It is going to be of a size and scope that is needed to get this economy back on track."