Linkagogo Archive 1: Obama

Stephen Hill Linkography: Expert Advice

Shorting Economists: The 'Experts' Keep Getting it Wrong
Article: August 19, 2010 - Truthdig. Throughout the 1990s and during the 2000s more voodoo economists likened Europe's economy to that of a "sick, sclerotic old man," until it was discovered that Europe had surpassed the U.S., creating more jobs, higher per capita growth and higher productivity. It is important that we find better measuring sticks and employ saner values for assessing what a successful economy looks like. Until then, we are flying in uncharted territory, without radar and surrounded by fog. Heaven help us!!

Austerity vs. Stimulus: Who’s Right?
Article: November 24, 2010 - Social Europe Journal. To paraphrase Denmark’s Prince Hamlet, ‘To enact austerity or not to enact austerity, that is the question.’ Unfortunately, dear Hamlet, that is a question without a sure answer. The truth is, none of the experts know what is the correct thing to do. Trichet, Bernanke, Geithner, Schäuble, Krugman, Stiglitz, Wolf, Münchau, Soros, all of them.

Japan and Germany, Often Dismissed By US Economists, See Sustainable Growth and Less Unemployment
Article Posted: 22 December 2010 – New America Media. Also posted as: Reconsidering Japan, Reconsidering Paul Krugman, 19 November 2010 – Industry News.

Throughout the 1990s, and still today, Krugman has skewered Japan’s economy, its economists and its leaders.
This criticism of Japan raises the important question: What is an economy for? To produce the prosperity, security and services that people need? Or to satisfy the theories and models of economists?

President-Elect Obama's Stimulus Plan Is Only
Half a Loaf
Article: Friday 16 January 2009 – Truthout. In announcing his economic stimulus plan, Obama unveiled some badly needed measures, including rebuilding of roads, bridges and schools and increased renewable energy production. But his American Recovery and Reinvestment Plan misses an opportunity to more directly invest in the greatest "infrastructure" of all - the American people.

Economic Democracy and Codetermination: Harnessing the Capitalist Engine
Book review: Posted 15 January 2010 - the Globalist (daily online magazine on the global economy, politics and culture).

In the aftermath of the economic crisis, the United States needs a new economic model — one that will decentralize power and put it in the hands of the workers. European advances in a distinct brand of 'social capitalism' are perhaps the most important innovations in the world economy since the invention of the modern corporation itself.

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Stephen Hill Linkography: Banks & Wall Street

Repost: Europe’s Promise & Wall Street gangsters
Book review: 28 December 2010 - Darwiniana. Posted in Critique of Evolutionary Economy by nemo. The American public is being exploited by economic pseudo-science, bad journalism, and the conspiracy of Wall Street gangsters, some of them on Obama’s sta3ff. It is a false ideology, totally out of control, and made worse by the way smart geekish types like Greenspan et al. promote it oblivious to reality. Hill’s book shows how the American system has gone astray, and how some form of social democracy can be successful.

Steven Hill: The insane prescription of the IMF
is repeated in Greece
In Greek - Press report of IPEDIS event held 18 October at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs - posted 21 October 2010, Zoom News. (Greek reference: Παραφροσύνη η επανάληψη της συνταγής ΔΝΤ στην Ελλάδα , Δημ/ση 21 Οκτ. 2010 – Zoomnews.gr (Use Google translator). Hill argued against the IMF prescriptions for ailing Greek economy. GDP alone. He calls the American Model of Capitalism, know as Wall Street Capitalism, bankrupt because that model brought economic chaos and the crisis that plunged America into recession.

Media Speculators Miss History Being
Made In Europe
Article: October 19, 2010 - Social Europe Journal. Like financial speculators, the media likes to speculate in sensationalism and hype, dedicated to advancing their goals. Financial speculators do it to make gobs of money, and the media does it to grab eyeballs for their TV shows and newspapers. During the recent Greek debt crisis, both the financial and media speculators acted up.

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Stephen Hill Linkography: Elections

Moderate Muslims Are the World's Swing Voters
Posted: 3 February 2009 - Huffington Post. Moderate Muslims should be seen as the world's swing voters. The Obama administration should think carefully about the lessons of the past eight years, indeed the past 80 years. There are hundreds of millions of moderate Muslims in the world, and they are waiting for an American partner that is cognizant of its role in a long, difficult history of colonialism and imperialist interventions. They, too, are looking for a "new deal." A president with the name of Barack Hussein Obama presents an opportunity, but the opening may not last long.

In Canada, Regular Folks Are Put to Work on Reforms
San Jose Mercury News, by Steven Hill, 17 November 2004. One of the solutions may lie across the border in Canada. It's called a Citizens' Assembly, and it was on display last year in the province of British Columbia. The government there turned over to the people the task of basic political reform, and by doing so took the partisanship out of the process, something California badly needs.

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Stephen Hill Linkography: Judicial Reform

Building a Balanced Supreme Court: Changing the Rules to Prevent Partisan Domination on the Bench
Article: 17 May 2010 - New York Daily News. Oftentimes, American-style partisanship results in Republicans and Democrats fighting like two mindless gamecocks in the ring. Well, take your seats, because nothing brings out this combative behavior more than a Supreme Court nomination.

Steven Hill on Federal Judges, Lifetime Appointment and a Better Supreme Court

Blog: posted Progressive Advocacy - 25 August 2005. Hill has a well-researched op-ed on lifetime appointment of federal judges. He calls for term limits, mandatory retirement ages, higher confirmation thresholds to require bipartisan appointments and multiple appointment institutions to create a more representative and somewhat counter-intuitively, less partisan judiciary.

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Stephen Hill Linkography: Health Care Reform

Can Obama Bypass Republicans on Health?

Article: 22 February 2010 at NYTimes.com. By using reconciliation, President Obama will return the Senate to the original vision of the founders. And he will pass health care legislation that will allow millions of fellow Americans to enjoy a level of health care security that the president and the senators themselves already enjoy.

Healthcare Tests the Senate’s Credibility
Article: 30 November 2009 - Financial Times.
America’s healthcare debate has been like a tennis match, bouncing from the Senate to the House of Representatives and back again. Now it is back in the Senate, as the US tries to end its status as the only advanced economy without universal healthcare for its people.

There's No Place Like Europe: Steven Hill on Medical House Calls, Multiparty Politics, and Other American Fantasies
Interview: Monday 18 October 2010 - by Alissa Bohling for Truthout.
During this lengthy interview Hill touched on the kind of support Europeans have that Americans don't have. He gave this example: "An American friend of mine living in Toulouse France got a hornet sting when I was visiting her. She calls up her doctor and, 20 minutes later, there's the French doctor with his little black bag. What does that feel like to a person, to know that you have that kind of access to the support that you need?"

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