January 2012 Archive

Hasn’t Anyone at the NYT Heard of Exchange Rates?

By Dean Baker: The NYT has a lengthy piece on how Apple has outsourced all of its manufacturing operations over the last two decades. This is ...

Tom Friedman’s Winning Strategy

By Marie Burns: Tom Friedman might be the laziest columnist in America. Not only does he write and rewrite the same columns again and again, nowhere ...

The U.S., Indonesia & the NY Times

By Conn M. Hallinan: Why is the New York Times concealing the key role that the United States played in the 1965 coup in Indonesia that ended up ...

Fracking: Anatomy Of Free Market Failure

By Robin Hahnel: A recent article on the front page of the New York Times reported that rural landowners are discovering that leases they signed with gas and oil companies exchanging drilling rights on their property for royalty payments were not always what they had been led to believe, and many are now experiencing buyers regret.

Thomas Friedman Wants Us to Follow Greece

By Dean Baker: At least he does when it comes to restructuring our Social Security system. One of the widely ridiculed features of Greece’s social welfare ...