I particularly liked Micheal Hudson’s comment

http://ftalphaville.ft.com/blog/2012/02/22/890211/yes-virginia-there-really-is-modern-monetary-theory/

I liked the comment on the blog ‘it has taught me a lot…but the accusation of chippiness is well founded’

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmC1juUCygo

Very interesting. And if anybody is interested in direct democracy, i have a blog running on it at the moment:

http://samplocracy.wordpress.com

hopefully we will get a post on who said what at the talk.

MISH provides a decent overview of how US participation rates are going down.
http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com/2012/02/nonfarm-payroll-243000-unemployment.html

I pay attention to reported participation ratios, hours worked, and number of people working partime but want full time work. It is very common for low skill, just HS graduated workers to have to cobble together two or three jobs to get by in US, if they can even find that much work. Our MSM really ignores how many working but desperately poor people there are in the US, partly due to racism becuase many of these people are black and latino…a lot of uneducated white people get by better due to connections in middle class communities, can get sales jobs etc…. It is much rouger here for average working person than people realize. I had a friend that was making decent money as a freelance graphic designer, but she had no health insurance, and having type 2 diabetes, could not get it on open market at any cost, so she took a job early in the morning stocking shelves at Ikea, and then went to clients offices from 10am to 6pm. At Ikea, even a part time 20 hour a week job offered very cheap pooled insurance. For her, a long time professional worker, what her coworkers went thru was illuminating. They all worked at Ikea from 5am til 9 or 10, then went to other retail or some such job. Ikea job was min wage, but they got their insurance there for cheap then worked other jobs that paid slightly higher hourly wages but had no insurance even for fulltime workers. This was before recession. These people would have loved to have had one fulltime manufacturing or construction job that could pay rent/food/covered medical insurance.

My experience to date is that Barristers expend much of their effort making real meanings less rather than more clear. I’m quite horrified at how they can reduce and marginalise essential meaning whilst expanding contingencies into dominant focus. The system is expanding upon pure momentum at present, not intelligence.

Fair enough. i can handle you not being perfect.

The shame is though that people who don’t want to know the critical thing that you are right about will rush to obscure it behind the peripheral thing that you are partly wrong about.

I had the use for that independent article all mapped out until I got to that last part. Such is life. Will just have to wait now for the obvious to become even more bleedingly so.

Agree that this is an advertisement. Too bad there is no symposium of such calibre in Singapore. I may get the DVD though.

I suppose my AFTER-‘Limits to Growth’ ‘complain’ has been answered by tomorrow’s Ceres event (laugh out loud).