In which I don’t really debate a guy from Canadian Auto Workers

I did an appearance on the Real News Network, a web TV operation currently based out of Toronto but planning a move to D.C. to take on the “industrial-military complex” in person. Part one is now online. (I could embed it here, but it’s pretty long.) The other guest was Jim Stanford, chief economist with [...]

How bad does the recession get?

I’ve got a piece up on TIME.com about the current race-to-the-bottom in GDP projections. It begins: Just how far and how fast will the economy drop this quarter? There’s lately been a race to the bottom among forecasters, with the economists at Goldman Sachs leading the way. Early in the week, they put out a [...]