Went driving in the Minnesota countryside southwest of Minneapolis yesterday.  The corn and soybeans are just unbelievable.  The soybeans af...

One of history's great ironies is that the economic regimes we imposed on the defeated Japanese and Germans following WW II were designe...

Is to have a real economy that makes real things that people and countries want to buy.  To read the commercial press, one would suppose the...

Work is an interesting topic.  There are some really unpleasant jobs out there that need doing.  I worked as a surgical orderly for two year...

This time from the Guardian .  I have been following the story of Japan's post-war re-industrialization for over 30 years now and I too,...

And it looks like we skeptics of the bashing have been proven correct.  Most, and probably all, cases of so-called unintended acceleration a...

It bad enough that large areas of Ukraine and western Russia are covered with radioactive debris. Now we are going to see this mess borne al...

NOT for some single magic bullet. The following is a perfect example of one of those incremental improvements that can reap great dividends....

Apparently, the human race--or at least the economists--haven't learned much from the Great Recession.  It is incredible when you think ...

The guys in here in the American midwest made monetary policy the dominant political topic from 1873 until at least my childhood.  I actuall...

Flight restrictions introduced as deadly wildfires blight Moscow Flights have been delayed in and out of the capital Sunday as Muscovites ch...

This is the latest from William Greider who quite literally wrote the book on the operation of the Federal Reserve. Deflation, Not Deficit...

The idea is to harness the solar power of the Sahara and ship it north to Europe.  The Desertec Foundation website seems to be one of the o...

China seems to be particularly aggressive in lining up supplies to feed it rapidly growing manufacturing sector.  And to show China's ...