Jeremy R. Hammond's Blog: JeremyRHammond.com, page 90

Peter Schiff Tries to Educate Economists About the Economy

Peter Schiff schools economists in a Huffington Post Live discussion.

Obamacare: Interfering in the Market to ‘Solve’ Problems Created by … Interfering in the Market!

The question is, "How is it that so many Americans with preexisting conditions don't have health insurance"?

Krugman vs. Krugman on the Cause of the Housing Bubble

Well, let's see what a very well known, Nobel-Prize winning economist had to say about the effect of "easy money" in the housing market during the bubble years

Janet Yellen ‘has been consistently right’?

Paul Krugman writes in his blog, in support of her bid as Fed Chairman, that Janet Yellen "has been consistently right'. Keeping in mind that this is coming from the guy who advocated that the Fed lower interest rates in order to create a housing bubble, I spent 2 minutes Googling Yellen's record

Krugman on Obamacare: Almost Everyone Is Better Off When Gov’t Uses Force to Redistribute Wealth

It is abundantly evident that Krugman's claims that somehow legislating away the free market and trying to centrally plan how the health care industry works can make health care so cheap that everyone can afford it is a fantasy.

On Thomas L. Friedman’s Suggestion that Edward Snowden Is a ‘Traitor’

Edward Snowden is not merely a whistleblower. He is a hero. The man sacrificed everything to courageously stand on a principle that the government is not above the law, that Americans need to be aware of the government's crimes against them, that such lawlessness is not acceptable and must be stopped.

Joe Nocera’s Epic Fail: Lamenting Deregulation of the Airline Industry

Joe Nocera in his New York Times column last week railed against deregulation of the airline industry that occurred in 1978, pointing to its long-term consequences as an example of the alleged evils of the free market, but in his effort managed only to produce self-contradictory nonsense revealing extraordinary cognitive dissonance stemming from his ideological myopia.

My Interview with Fars News on the U.S.’s Criminal Policy Towards Iran

Award-winning Iranian journalist Kourosh Ziabari interviewed me for the Fars News Agency. Following is the text of the interview, used with his permission.

The U.S.: Trying to Solve the Terrorist Threat in Syria by Doing More of the Same That Created It

According to this, the official narrative, it is the U.S.'s inaction that has led to this threat emerging. Thus, by this account, what the U.S. should do now is to act, which invariably means backing the rebels, including by directly arming them.