By Brendan Pastor The 2012 presidential election is over. Voters can now return to their regularly scheduled TV programmes, residents in swing states like Ohio and Florida can breathe a sigh of relief, and 24-hour news pundits are free to speculate on who will run in 2016. As it turns out, the election took place …
By Brendan Pastor. “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of …
By Brendan Pastor. “Well, we’re going to start in a couple weeks with our budget adjustment bill. The first step is we’re going to deal with collective bargaining for all public employee unions, because you use divide and conquer. So for us, the base we’ve got for that is the fact that we’ve got – budgetarily …
By Brendan Pastor. When Paul Krugman coined the term confidence fairy, he meant it as a pedantic critique of UK Prime Minister David Cameron’s austerity agenda. The cuts that were administered to the welfare systems were driven by a need to reduce the deficit – the existence of which hampered market confidence in Britain’s economy, …
By Brendan Pastor - A Political Opinion Article President Obama’s endorsement of gay marriage on May 9th was by all means a watershed moment. For the first time in US history a sitting president has publicly endorsed same-sex marriage rights, something many consider the last civil rights issue in America. His announcement set both the Blogosphere and …
By Brendan Pastor. I was born in 1989, but for the purpose of this article let’s pretend I was born in the ’60s. Then I can say how much I remember the ’70s and ’80s, with a sense of longing nostalgia, much like people from the ’60s usually do. But what I will pretend to miss …
By Brendan Pastor . Any student of politics or economics can tell you the 2007 financial crisis changed things. Likewise, any student with a sense of history can tell you that the global economy is always evolving. But what we have in Europe, and indeed much of the developed world, is some new demon. Where there was …
