About 30-40 mins after reading Andrew’s thought provoking piece on the Better Questions series in Seomra Sproi, I was watching Tuesday’s Daily Show. In it they make an amuzing point that the recent credit card reform act in the US does little more than make credit card companies and the state than enforces it little […]
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Disinflation (just a little bit)
In America over the weekend it came out that
The prices of US goods and services, excluding food and fuel, fell last month for the first time since 1982…The closely watched “core” consumer price index fell 0.1 per cent in January, labour department figures showed on Friday, as prices for new cars and housing dropped […]
Biopower
Andrew Flood posted Ronit Lentin’s talk on “Biopower, Race and State in contemporary Ireland” recently. Since then a few people have either said to me face to face or online that they don’t get the concept. I’m not sure that I get it either, but maybe its like Irony - impossible to explain but you […]
Obama’s (new) plan
Since my post in Autumn on the Obama health care plan a lot has happened. But perhaps more importantly, the EVENT hasn’t happened. No healthcare bill has been passed.
A mojor reason for this is the impasse reached between the ‘House Bill’ Affordable Health Care for America Act and the ‘Senate Bill’ Patient Protection and Affordable […]
