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Dowd: Tighten Your Seat Belts; Worse Is On Its Way
Commentary, April, 05 2005
Douglas Dowd
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Unless you were very rich and a rightist, the last ten years have been very hard to take. The Clintons' hypocrisies and corruption were bad enough; but they were our guardian angels compared to the scurvy brutes now ruling over us: arrogant, cocky...
Dowd: What Must We Do? What Can We Do?
Commentary, December, 01 2004
Douglas Dowd
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Millions of us are asking such questions today, with at least dozens of answers -- only some of them compatible with each other. Here is mine.
Dowd: Greed
Commentary, August, 08 2004
Douglas Dowd
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The unholy family of the seven deadly sins is usually seen as composed of anger, avarice, envy, gluttony, lust, pride, and sloth. Four of those are greed's parents: avarice, envy, gluttony, and lust -- with pride and anger serving as aunt and uncl...
Dowd: On The Election
Commentary, June, 17 2004
Douglas Dowd
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It is now clear that the presidential election will be very close. Much can happen for better and for worse between now and then at home and, especially, in Iraq; so much that no firm prediction can be made. But this can be said: If the election w...
Dowd: Torture and Abuse
Commentary, May, 24 2004
Douglas Dowd
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The outrage and horror that spread and deepened after the revelations concerning Abu Ghraid prison in the spring of 2004 were fully justified, as was the revulsion at Nicholas Berg's beheading and, earlier, the killings and mutilation of Fallujah.
Dowd: Deficits And Surpluses
Commentary, September, 14 2003
Douglas Dowd
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My previous ZCom was on possibilities/probabilities of deflation/depression. This is meant to supplement that argument.
Dowd: Deflation And The "d" Word. Here We Go Again?
Commentary, June, 15 2003
Douglas Dowd
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In U.S. economic history, there have been only two periods of sustained deflation: from 1873 to 1897 and the 1930s. Their length and severity led both to be called "depressions." There had been many downturns before 1873, but none had lasted s...
Dowd: From the Unthinkable to the Probable in Israel/Palestine
Commentary, January, 12 2002
Douglas Dowd
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From the Unthinkable to the Probable in Israel/Palestine
Dowd: DOWN WITH THE BAH HUMBUG OF TAXES
Commentary, June, 01 2001
Douglas Dowd
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The flagrantly unjust and harmful policies for taxes, governmental spending and real and imagined surpluses in place or on their way had their beginnings in the last years of Carter's presidency -- prodded and facilitated by what Richard Du Boff t...
Dowd: Down with the Bah Humbug of Taxes, Surpluses, Spending, and Deficits, up with What We Need and Can Do
Commentary, May, 15 2001
Douglas Dowd
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The flagrantly unjust and harmful policies for taxes, governmental spending and real and imagined surpluses in place or on their way had their beginnings in the last years of CarterÕs presidency Ñ prodded and facilitated by what Richard Du Boff te...
Dowd: DEREGULATION BLUES
Commentary, February, 24 2001
Douglas Dowd
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Just when we're about to blow our tops at the airlines for the delays and crowding and lousy service -- and rising prices -- we get blindsided by blackouts and for our electricity and rising prices (as also for gas, and water, and gasoline). How c...
Dowd: THE NEW ERA OF THE 1920s AND THE NEW ECONOMY OF TODAY: BIRDS OF A FEATHER?
Commentary, January, 31 2001
Douglas Dowd
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By Doug DowdThe New Era began poorly, as did our New Economy (dating its take-off as the 1990s). In 1919 there was a short recession, then a sharp inflation and unsteady good times and a very sharp recession, 1921-22; then began the so-called "pro...
Dowd: A TALE OF TWO CITIES
Commentary, December, 14 2000
Douglas Dowd
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The two cities are Bologna and Venice. The environmental problems threatening both, despite well-publicized "remedies," have not improved but worsened in recent decades; the cities, their problems, and their failure to deal with them exemplify all...
Dowd: WHAT DO WE WANT? AND WHO ARE "WE"?
Commentary, November, 23 2000
Douglas Dowd
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Alongside and arising from "Seattle" and subsequent protests are questions such as the above -- by those participating in and supporting, and those against the protests. Those and related questions have always deserved serious answers; now more t...
Dowd: ROTTING AWAY; THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF CORRUPTION AND DECADENCE
Commentary, September, 02 2000
Douglas Dowd
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History is replete with corrupt and decadent societies, including (but not beginning with) that of 1st Century Rome, where decadent/corrupt Nero fiddled as corrupt/decadent Rome burned. Iniquity -- and inequality -- in ancient and medieval societ...
Dowd: NEITHER A BORROWER NOR A LENDER BE
Commentary, July, 10 2000
Douglas Dowd
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Anyone giving that advice today would be seen as deranged; but, as some oldies will remember, such was once the received truth, as proclaimed by Founding Father Ben Franklin (along with "Waste not, want not" and "A penny saved is a penny earned").
Dowd: Capitalism and Technology: To whose benefit, at what costs?
Commentary, June, 24 2000
Douglas Dowd
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In 1917, as war ripped Europe apart, Einstein wrote to a friend that "Our much-praised technological progress, and civilization gene rally, could be compared to an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal." Subsequently, in showing that E=MC2,...
Dowd: THE FREE MARKET; AND ALL THAT JAZZ
Commentary, May, 26 2000
Douglas Dowd
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The rising tide of center/right socioeconomic policies in the United States (among other societies) appalls a goodly share of our people. Riding high on what is now a flood tide, propelled by and propelling it, has been the phenomenal Second Comin...
Dowd: THE GREAT BRAIN ROBBERY
Commentary, May, 06 2000
Douglas Dowd
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Let not young souls be smothered out before They do quaint deeds and fully flaunt their pride. It is the world's one crime its babes grow dull, Its poor are ox-like, limp and leaden-eyed. Set those words beside these: I am somehow less inte...
Dowd: SOCIAL SECURITY: FROM SCAM TO SCANDAL IN 65 YEARSBy
Commentary, April, 13 2000
Douglas Dowd
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Of course it's been better than nothing, considering only the great number of old and survivors it has kept at or above the poverty line; or so we are told. But at least two points: about 40 percent of families over 65 have an annual income of und...
Dowd: SOCIAL SECURITY: FROM SCAM TO SCANDAL IN 65 YEARS
Commentary, April, 05 2000
Douglas Dowd
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Of course it's been better than nothing, considering only the great number of old and survivors it has kept at or above the poverty line; or so we are told. But at least two points: about 40 percent of families over 65 have an annual income of und...
