Going to the Motor City this weekend to meet up with Tony.  The occasion is the NAMES (North America Model Engineering Society) show where h...

A contributor to ZeroHedge goes through the numbers to show that The Housing Bubble Broke The Middle Class , by destroying one half the net...

Mike Konczal at Rortybomb has a relatively short summary of a new paper just released by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation explainin...

Great list of trouble spots associated with rising food prices. If Food Prices Keep Surging, These Economies Will Be The Next To Crumble Ma...

Growing up in perhaps the most fertile agricultural area on this earth means that the only food problem I have seen up close is the one wher...

Two things to note about the article linked to below. First, there appear to be new breakthroughs in using a substitute for platinum in elec...

What happens when you stand up to a panel of "respected" economists and propose to tax Wall Street's financial transactions? ...

On February 28, I wrote a piece I am particularly proud of called  Oil prices on the rise--inflationary or deflationary?    In it, I argue t...

Invention is hard.  That great inventor Thomas Edison is supposed to have said "Genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration" and...

One of the things I discovered doing the research for Elegant Technology was that the economics "profession" had become almost ir...

From Dan Crawford at Angry Bear: Medical Tourism, separating facts from fiction One of the greatest myths that I hear on a somewhat regular...

Last night I pointed to former savings and loan fraud prosecutor Bill Black's extraordinary article , Fiat Justitia Ruat Caelum (Let Jus...

Yet more evidence of the collapse of the U.S. industrial base. Michael Mandel , the chief economist for BusinessWeek, was recently doing so...

One of the most infuriating characteristics of American conservatives is their attempt to claim they are "christian." Conservative...

In spite of the fact that I spent nearly 20 years inside of classrooms, I don't even claim to understand what schools are trying to acco...

Neoliberalism is truly a form of insanity because it keeps getting tried in spite of its awesome track record of failure.  A FEW people make...

The Euro has been generally popular in Finland since its introduction.  While the economic benefits have been questionable, there is strong ...

The real economy cannot operate on magic.   My grandfather had a colorfully weird bachelor-farmer brother who loved to entertain us kids w...

One of the prime hazards of speaking out for renewable energy is that invariably, some well-meaning soul will come up after the speech to ex...

As the nation remembers the 150th anniversary of the beginning of hostilities between the North and South, debates about the Civil War are b...

I certainly do not claim to be an expert on Finland.  Compared to the typical citizen of USA who is lucky to know that "sauna" is ...