Doesn't last very long.  So we are taking a week off to take in some of the scenery around Gitchi Gummi (Lake Superior.)

I must confess that I never quite understood the European intelligentsia's enthusiasm for the European Union.  Of course, I wasn't a...

With the utter complicity of politicians who believe the same insane bullshit about money.

There are two reasons I really like this story. First of all, there is this small matter about where this happened--The University of Min...

Responding to the latest lies peddles by New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman, Dean Baker provides a quick summary of the facts regardi...

There are probably a bunch of good reasons for why Europe should have a single currency.  I am pretty sure that if I had to conduct a busine...

Tip o' the hat to Ken Houghton at Angry Bear for this quick and simple dismantling of a prevailing neoliberal shock doctrine "mode...

The Germans and the Americans largely industrialized using the same playbook.  After WW II, the team of American economists who supervised t...

Back in the 1970s, there was an ongoing debate between that giant (literally) of Keynesianism, John Kenneth Galbraith, and Milton Friedman w...

Not long ago, I met a freshly-minted economist who was a perfectly pleasant young man who was unfortunately wrong about just about everythin...

Netroots Nation (NN), a gathering of "progressives" organized mainly by the Dailykos website has been meeting in Minneapolis since...

The strange weather patterns just keep getting stranger.  Hardly a day goes by anymore that I don't find myself muttering "It's...

When I wrote Elegant Technology , getting a handle of the global waste stream seemed almost impossible.  Every day, I could see more things ...

As regular readers know, I was predicting an economic contraction in the very near future last spring.  The reasoning was simple--oil is the...

Once did a thought experiment--what would happen if some hacker managed to cancel some country's external debt? I am pretty sure that ...

Attended a "watch party" last night for a video documentary I had more than a little to do with creating.  It concerns the efforts...

The Netroots Nation (a Dailykos affair) is coming to Minneapolis next week.  So like a good host (which I rarely am) I thought I might post ...

St. Paul is easily the best-kept secret in Minnesota. Yes it is the capitol. Yes is has a bunch of state offices. But generally speaking,...

Most Minnesotans will tell you that the real scenic state is "up Nort." And they most certainly have a point. Anyone who has the...

May 26, 2011 Transfer of 700 DVDs in One Second Only – Highest Bit Rate on a Laser Scientists of Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) ...

Sorry I have let this news roundup slip for so long. But the latest top news items serve to put the U.S. approach to political economy in st...