The name of this blog, Political Economy Watch, points to its purpose: to help us better understand the political economy of the United States.
When I say us, I mean myself as the writer as well as you as the reader. I'll be working out my own thoughts as we go along. We will try to understand the economy better, but -- of equal importance -- we will try to understand how the political economy is discussed in the media and on the internet. We will read news articles, analytic pieces and opinion columns critically, exposing the ideological perspectives lying underneath them.
If you follow this blog, you will quickly be able to discern my own social and political perspectives, so I'm not going to lay them out here. We'll let the individual postings reveal those perspectives. Enjoy!