This was like predicting the dawn.  The BOJ probably had a "serious" meeting with Abe.  And he says he will behave if elected and ...

I have been arguing for most of my adult life that so long as folks are doing something clever with their resources, money pumped into the s...

From the department of "you can't make this shit up" we see a group of investment fund managers issuing a document calling on ...

I am old enough to remember when Brookings was a reliably "liberal" institute / think tank.  Now it is reliably Neoliberal in econ...

As the folks who calculate these things tote up the costs of the billion-dollar weather disasters of 2012, some are reaching a rather astoni...

Plouffe's betrayal on earned benefits is exactly the crap that lots of people warned against when they argued that Obama is not really...

Desertec is going through a rough patch—actually most Producer Class enterprises in Europe are.  But I am reasonably certain this is one of...

After years of nearly universal agreement that climate change was a significant problem that required coordinated action and the spending of...

The main reason I first learned agricultural economics is that the advisor of my model airplane club had a day job trying to sell membership...

The absolute worst thing that could happen after last summer's drought was an extra-dry fall.  Much of the corn and beans that were plan...

So long as criminals run the global financial system, it is impossible for anything meaningful to come from the Doha climate talks.  People ...

From his lifetime study of the pamphlets, speeches, sermons, and newspaper commentaries that fueled the American Revolution, one of the conc...

So Obama is going to send his minions Doha to do what?  Who knows?  According to this article, the main expectation is that he must recommit...

It turns out that the new emphasis on climate change over at the World Bank has an institutional explanation.  Their new president, Jim Yon...

Living in Minnesota, I tend not to worry about fraudulent vote counting.  We have a system the good government types agree is virtually hack...

I come from a long line of folks who believe that gratitude is probably the ultimate sign of civilized person.  In our family, the Thanksgiv...

In one more tiny bit of evidence that the debate over climate change may FINALLY be shifting (at least a bit) we see the following evidence ...

Since the crash of 2007-8 introduced crises thinking to the world of finance capitalism, many of us have been tempted to forget about some o...

We have now reached the stage where increases in climatic CO2 are pretty much baked into the system.  Doing something different (going solar...

There is arguably no subject that has been more thoroughly studied than steam and how we use it.  Yes, The Age of Steam is behind us and so ...