The EU now has a member that intends to take aim at the heart of EU power—the control of the continent by the creditor classes.  Big money h...

Alan Blinder is usually introduced as this highly respected and rather conventional economist from Princeton who says nothing that isn't...

The other day, I was informed that a housing unit I produced with great effort ( pdf version ) for less than $55,000 in the late 1970s had j...

We are, we believe (and hope) nearing completion of a historical chronology of government actions and programs to support and develop the ec...

Deep solar penetration is harder than it looks. Kauai is the fourth largest of the Hawaiian Islands at 562.3 sq mi (1,456 km2). It lies a...

One of the more puzzling phenomenon is the enthusiasm for the EU I have witnessed in my highly educated European friends.  Once I carefully ...

What we have here is a group of diligent researchers putting numbers to a suspicion that many of us already harbor and that is: Whatever the...

“It is well enough that the people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system for, if they did, I believe there would b...

For many years, I have used Peter Cooper as an example of someone who knew a whole lot more about the nature of money and monetary policy th...

Two days ago, I posted on DailyKos a summary of the very important article on money creation that Jon had featured. Jon asked me to also p...

One of the main reasons I don't take Marxists very seriously is that I believe them to be very weak on the subject of monetary policy.  ...

Modern Monetary Theory is a concept that makes me a tad nervous because I find that most monetary ideas have been around for at least a cent...

This week, I intend to cover the subject of money creation.  It is not like I haven't covered this subject pretty thoroughly before.  In...

As regular readers know, I have been following the fuel-cell story so carefully I actually attracted the attention of Toyota .  And while I ...

Even as far away from Germany as the center of North America, you can feel their enthusiasm for a solar-powered future just leaking away.  I...

It's a new year.  Tony and I have been kicking around some ideas we want to try.  It's not that we are unhappy with our little blog,...

Not long after the students had been gunned down in cold blood during a harmless protest march at Kent State Ohio May 4, 1970, someone at U...

Posting will be lighter than normal until Jan 5, 2015.  This blog is a lot of work and I need a break.  My SO thinks I am looking weary.  I...

...and on earth peace, good will towards men. Luke 2:14—the absolute central message of Christmas Yes, I know, there are plenty of people...

In the spring of my first year of at the University of Minnesota, I got to watch the collision of the supporters of Hubert Humphrey and Euge...

As someone who can vividly remember some of the more gruesome details of the Cold War, (like when UN ambassador Adlai Stevenson demanded his...