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of John Gelles

Blogger is at a rally in favor of American foreign policy, including regime change in Iraq (Fall 2003).

Karen Loberg (Ventura Star) took the picture. It made the front page. He was famous for a day.

06-28-2010 If You're Alive, Your Federal Taxes are Already Paid
06-13-2010 The General Theory of Money and Spending, Saving and Necessary Production
03-18-2010 Pensions should start at age 55
03-07-2010 David Korten in Tikkun archive on profound reform of the system
01-18-2010 China and a new world economic order by Henry C K Liu

11-06-2009 My comment on Krauthammer column on return to the center right in 2009
10-22-2009 Open BLOG from and to White House on Health Care Fight
10-17-2009 My comment on Charles Krauthammer's criticism of our relations with Moscow
09-25-2009 " Go Russia ! " by the President of Russia, Dmitry Medvedev
09-16-2009 PBS News Hour discussed Racism and Unemployment: my commentary
09-06-2009 Another Singularity: My comment to YES e-magazine on money reform
09-05-2009 Organizing for America (OFA) Labor Day Blog: President Did Not Perform
07-29-2009 William Greider on a new   Fedwith John Gelles commentary
07-22-2009 The Triumph of Common Sense over Seeking Unlikely Consumption Profits
07-18-2009 A national wage dividend

07-07-2009 Geography Ideology Advantage—America and Russia meet and talk
07-06-2009 CRASH from Post Autistics Economics (PAECON) links
06-29-2009 Sheila Bair, heroine extraordinaire
06-24-2009 Daniel Pipes points to regime change for Iran. He does not mention force. I do.
05-30-2009 Is Rush Limbaugh Right II: Magic Bullets, Moral Hazard, Recovery Timing ?
05-29-2009 Is Rush Limbaugh Right: The President is Playing Politics ?
04-24-2009 Mark Twain's "Concerning the Jews" (Written in the Summer of 1898)
03-22-2009 Singularity University: Quotations early on
03-15-2009 Bernanke on 60 Minutes: Gelles says this begins greatest boom in history
03-14-2009 James Lieber in the Village Voice: What Cooked the World's Economy

03-11-2009 George Soros explanation of what happened—Financial Times 28 Jan 09
12-13-2008 Charles Krauthammer explains the Transformation I pray is within reach.
11-28-2008 Robert J. Samuelson ... Wealth Effect in Reverse
11-28-2008 Same Old New Deal ? ... by George F. Will
11-10-2008 Mark Jones
11-07-2008 Obama-nomics
10-18-2008 OBAMA HATES TAXES AND HAS TO MAKE THIS KNOWN
10-05-2008 Ira Glass (Public Radio) "This American Life" - The Giant Pool of Money (2 parts)
09-15-2008 Black Monday. White Future
09-13-2008 Functional Finance of Abba Lerner--by Mathew Forstater

08-30-2008 Obama or Not ?
08-17-2008 Bill Moyers and Andrew Bacevich Chew the Fat: Ready for Real Thought
08-08-2008 Go For Broke. The Greatest Show on Earth. The XXIX Summer Olympics.
08-07-2008 Fixing IT-- no matter extreme deflation and depression or hyperinflation.
08-02-2008 Is it Boom or Bust Ahead ? and a different view by Michael Hudson
07-25-2008 Cassidy on Mortgage Loans and lending we can't afford to leave to chance.
07-19-2008 Not to Worry: the week that was.
07-18-2008 Monbiot: How Did We Get Into This Mess
07-16-2008 Barry Blitt and Maureen Dowd brighten up the day—sorta.
06-23-2008 Adelson -- by Connie Bruck in The New Yorker, June 30, 2008

06-18-2008 What's Next in the Search for Global Monetary Systems of Production
04-22-2008 Hillary Clinton warns Iran not to launch a nuclear attack against Israel
04-21-2008 Tony Blair, Honored by Atlantic Council, addresses the Council
02-29-2008 Is it DOWN or UP from HERE and NOW?
02-28-2008 Mayor Michael Bloomberg of New York City may help non-partisan candidate.
02-27-2008 William F. Buckley Dies at 82. (From Bloomberg by Nancy Moran)
02-25-2008 Milstein Update
02-22-2008 Give the Banks Some Credit by Howard Milstein in the NY Times
01-22-2008 A Death in the Family by Hitchens in Vanity Fair: Lt. Mark Daily was killed in Iraq.
01-07-2008 A Lawless, Deregulated System --- Market Oracle, analysis by Mike Whitney.

12-28-2007 Dick Distelhorst's History.
12-12-2007 George Steiner--from The British Council's Contemporary Writers.
10-19-2007 Richistan---from Slate by Daniel Gross.
10-16-2007 Mechanism Design. Outcomes versus Process.
10-08-2007 Krugman's Home Run.
08-31-2007 Preventing home foreclosures.
08-30-2007 David Remnick discusses Mearsheimer and Walt and American Interests.
08-26-2007 D. Leonhardt's review of "A New History of the Great Depression", by A. Shlaes.
08-23-2007 Economic Reform
08-14-2007 Discussion of God and Money on Amazon's politics forum

08-04-2007 Impending financial crises? I don't thinks so--- but they can be overcome.
08-03-2007 War on the Cheap---Not a Good Idea
07-28-2007 David Remnick writes a Letter from Jerusalem
06-12-2007 My Message to Mitt Romney's Forum
06-11-2007 My Message to Mikey Weinstein's foundation blog
06-11-2007 My Message to Mitt Romney's Sons' blog
05-29-2007 What is quasi-religious? And what is David Brooks' opinion?
05-22-2007 A Market Requires a Means of Payment
05-20-2007 Christopher Hitchens interview on Wolfowitz and the World Bank
05-15-2007 Stephen Wolfram and Marty Hoffert: Complex engineering and global solutions

05-11-2007 Physics Professor Marty Hoffert, NYU, PBS Newshour
05-10-2007 Robert Samuelson on China trade in the Washington Post
05-04-2007 Follow-up from USA Today to Failure in Generalship
05-02-2007 Failure in Generalship - by Lt. Col. Paul Yingling
04-09-2007 John Cassidy (in The New Yorker) on Paul Wolfowitz
04-01-2007 A Palestinian Life
04-01-2007 Money Masters Monetary Reform Act
02-24-2007 Mind, Body and Stuff That We Own
12-26-2006 Daniel Pipes: How the West Could Lose. John Gelles: Prevention
12-18-2006 Paul Krugman: The Great Wealth Transfer

12-01-2006 Paul Omerod in Prospect UK on Milton Friedman
11-19-2006 Brad DeLong's Tribute to Milton Friedman --- and More
11-18-2006 Review by Robert Alter of Stephen Smith's Reading Leo Strauss
11-06-2006 Ending Unmet Need For Sure, Forever
11-01-2006 Ben Stein in NY Times: Have They No Shame or No Memory?
10-17-2006 O'Reilly gets the President to Talk on Iran and North Korea.
10-10-2006 Economic Justice---Edmund Phelps and me.
10-04-2006 Enough is Enough
10-03-2006 Keynes without debt: who supports it?
10-03-2006 What to focus on?--- Focus on Keynes without debt.

10-01-2006 Keynes Without Debt by Ron Morrison, PAER Issue 39
9-28-2006  Reality in War and Commerce
9-19-2006  9-19-06: Bush will speak later today to the UN. This is ahead of that.
9-17-2006  Why Bloggers Blog and How to Improve the Breed
9-12-2006  9-11-06: Decisive Ideological Struggles, 20th and 21st Centuries
9-05-2006  The End of History by Francis Fukuyama
9-05-2006  Disposable Americans: Layoffs, Consequences by Louis Uchitelle
8-29-2006  From where did Al-Qaeda come? by Uriya Shavit
8-24-2006  Maziar Bahari writes on Iran today
7-29-2006  The Long War: Re-organizing to win    by John Mills, CCC, NPS, Monterey
7-28-2006  Warren Buffett in Fortune (Oct 2003) on IMPORT CERTIFICATES
7-20-2006  A Decisive Military Outcome in Lebanon: Krauthammer in Washington Post
7-06-2006  The Legacy of Jihad by Andrew Bostom, Book Reviews from Amazon
6-27-2006  Buffett and Gates and one future for philanthropy
6-19-2006  New Gravity for the Political Center by David Ignatius, Washington Post.
6-18-2006  A Muslim Middle Ground by Laurie Goodstein, NY Times.
6-06-2006  Fareed Zakaria on American Leadership.
5-31-2006  My comment to unity08.com --- something new on the web.
5-31-2006  My post to Charlie Rose Boards: If an Anti - Iraq - War sentiment wins?
5-31-2006  Galbraith Memorial Service --- First Words by James Galbraith
5-26-2006  Memorial Service for John Kenneth Galbraith will be at Harvard
5-25-2006  Good Reason for Optimism
5-24-2006  What Is It We're Trying to Say --- NOT!
5-20-2006  ICANN news from the Washington Post.
5-20-2006  Funny Money ---Wikipedia.
5-09-2006  JKG on Line: a proposal for an on line resource for political effect
5-01-2006  The Predator State (from Mother Jones) by Prof. James Galbraith
4-30-2006  John Kenneth Galbraith. See Also: The Financial Times
4-28-2006  Why Does the President Not Smartly Address Our Problems?
4-25-2006  Interactive Agenda Databases---message from JG to e-mail forums
4-21-2006  Don't Blame the US Deficit--- by John Snow in the Washington Post
4-13-2006  "A Grand Bargain"--- by Christopher S. Chivvis, International Herald;d Tribune
4-09-2006  Economics, French-style --- by Katrin Bennhold, International Herald Tribune
4-08-2006  Rick Weiss writes in the Washington Post on Nanotech-worker safety
4-03-2006  Adam Glantz on the sheer myopia of Mearsheimer & Walt on Israel
4-02-2006  Daniel Pipes calls the War in Iraq a Success
4-01-2006  Intelligent Design of and within Political Economy
3-18-2006  Ben Bernanke's Deflation Speech: A Foundation for Logistical Money
3-17-2006  The Logistical Side of Money
3-07-2006  The Democratic Party Should Have Answers or Shutup !
3-06-2006  How Should We Study Religion? (A debate in Prospect magazine UK)
2-23-2006   Edward Skidelsky: Leo Strauss -- No More Heroes
2-22-2006   Francis Fukuyama: After Neoconservatism
2-13-2006   Bernanke and a Rock Solid Economy: Article by Shumpei Takemori in
2-12-2006   Bernanke, Greenspan, Debt, Money: Bill Bonner's "Whither Goes the Money?"
2-09-2006   Twelve Images in the War
12-25-2005  Best Movies of 2005 -- NY Times
12-05-2005  Reforming Capitalism: Discussion: Post Autistic Economics article
11-23-2005  We need a real debate about the war--- from Slate by Christopher Hitchens.
11-14-2005  Wash Post Bio of Ben Bernanke
11-06-2005  My message: Mobilize the Fed for War
10-29-2005  No more special counsels ",  by Rivkin and Casey in the Washington Post 
10-28-2005  NYT Op-ed contributor James Grant on Helicopter-Ben
10-27-2005  My glass half-full email
10-26-2005  A NY Times report on Ben Bernanke
10-20-2005  An Issues Engine
10-19-2005  White Paper: Building Political Democracy in China
10-19-2005  Noam Chomsky---legitimate dissent or seditious?
10-15-2005  My message: Brzezinski and beyond
10-14-2005  Zbigniew Brzezinski: George W. Bush's suicidal statecraft
10-05-2005  To Die or to Live (in the Shadow of Law and a New Asian Flu)
9-17-2005   What the President has Promised
9-06-2005   Christopher Hitchens in the Weekly Standard
9-04-2005   David Brooks in the NY Times
9-02-2005   William Greider on Alan Greenspan---and my comment of the article
8-31-2005   Francis Fukuyama predicts in the NYT and my own view of the matter
8-29-2005   Alan Greenspan reflects on uncertainty at Jackson Hole Symposium
8-28-2005   Alan Greenspan reflects on central banking at Jackson Hole Symposium
8-19-2005   Delong on Parker on Galbraith
8-18-2005   Max Boot on China
8-17-2005   Christopher Hitchens on the Gold Star Mother's protest against the war
8-16-2005   J. Bradford De Long in August 2001 reviews William Easterly's Quest for Growth
8-11-2005   Monetary Reform--message from me to Charlie Rose bulletin board
8-02-2005   Eliot Cohen's (Wash. Post 19 July) questions and implied solutions to termite war  
7-19-2005   William Greider (continued): How high can the trade deficit be?
7-18-2005   William Greider, free trade, truth and macro-economic reconciliation
7-18-2005   Sir Edward Heath---dies at 89. He was Prime Minister, yachtsman and musician
7-08-2005   We Cannot Surrender: by Christopher Hitchens
7-05-2005   Post Autistic Economics: Article by Edward Fullbrook
5-24-2005   The Best Economic Performance Money can Buy
5-21-2005   Matt Miller: Taking Luck Seriously
5-20-2005   Prospect Magazine (UK) / Anatol Lieven: America Right or Wrong
5-19-2005   Prospect Magazine (UK): Cold War Chess
5-18-2005   NY Times: USAF Seeks Approval for Space Weapons Programs
5-15-2005   On Bullshit by Harry Frankfurt with my comment on von Mises
5-08-2005   Evolution, Metaphysics, Morality
5-01-2005   Michael Kinsley's remark---what's it worth to you?.
4-30-2005   Stiglitz and Friedman: Flat World. Stupid People.

4-29-2005   Three items: msg to Rockwell; 2nd msg to Econoblog; Rockwell on Austrian economics
4-27-2005   My first message to WSJ Econoblog discussion of estate taxes
4-25-2005   Christopher Hitchens on Tony Blair and Labor
4-24-2005   Christopher Hitchens on stories about real people in a critical time
4-05-2005   "The Price of Infallibility"   by Thomas Cahill
4-05-2005   "Poland's Holy Father"   by Stefan Chwin
4-03-2005   Needed---a social contract for when machines do the work we won't.
3-30-2005   Terry Schiavo, Jesse Jackson, Internet Archive of Library of Congress.
3-27-2005   "Wolfowitz"--- Interview by Lally Weymouth, Newsweek and Washington Post.
3-25-2005   "Wolfowitz---he's not exactly who you think he is"---- by Christopher Hitchens

3-24-2005   University of North Carolina Law: Banking, Technology, Edwards and more
3-22-2005   Richard Holbrooke on George Kennan in the Washington Post
3-20-2005   Message to David Walker, Comptroller General of the United States
3-19-2005   Money Enough for Pensions and TIVO Too!
3-13-2005   Discussing Politics versus a Seminar on Peer-to-Peer
3-12-2005   FrontPage Magazine interview with Christopher Hitchens of 29 Dec 04
3-12-2005   Frontpage Magazine Interview with Thomas Barnett of 26 Jan 05
3-11-2005   Jeffrey Sachs in Time magazine: Making Poverty History
3-10-2005   What backs modern money? Addendum
3-10-2005   What backs modern money?

3-04-2005   What to make of money and taxes in the President's 2nd wartime term
3-01-2005   Very brief message on Social Security reform to the RNC and Whitehouse
2-28-2005   Price, High School, etc.
2-27-2005   Dominic Cummings of NO (against too much  European Union) offers advice.
2-25-2005   My note to Mark Steyn, Canadian world class pundit
2-23-2005   Connecting Fiat Money to Wealth is a major requirement.
2-22-2005   Gordon Brown, UK Chancellor of the Exchequer (in China): trade, education, etc.
2-21-2005   Buying the Suez Canal with Credit Money in 1875
2-20-2005   Dean, Pearl, Soros
2-17-2005   Blogs for interactive political agenda authorship--they do not yet exist.


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