It's a damn chore to keep track of the Predator Class economic arguments. Which is why I am so grateful that Bill Black takes the time ...

While most environmentalists tremble in rage over the fact that Exxon knew a very great deal about climate change already in the 1970s yet ...

A few weeks back, a friend of mine bought himself a used Nissan Leaf. Even though it is fully electric, this car is a long way from being...

Ever since the steam guys figured out that it was possible turn heat into motion, folks have been figuring out the thousands of application...

In the essay below, Paul Craig Roberts asks a damn good question, "Who murdered the peace movement?" when discussing the current ...

As hurricane Harvey dumped up to 52" on parts of Texas, our elected officials ponder the grave and soul-searching question "Is my...

McCoy is a Yalie who not especially surprisingly got involved with the intelligence services.  Skull and Bones is at Yale and the bright ...

The absolute WORST feature of Identity Politics is that it trivializes everything. There are BIG problems like climate change, the fact tha...

1973 turned out to be the major economic watershed year for most people alive today. Because that was the year that the pro-growth assumpti...

Climate change is a BIG issue around here—not that you would know it from the paucity of reporting on the subject. My excuse is that there ...

David Stockman is the sort that can easily inspire conflicting emotions. He is obviously very bright—he was the boy wonder head of Reagan...

Perhaps THE most annoying thing about the economics profession is that they are extremely bright people with extraordinary math skills who ...

Using economics to destroy is perhaps the sickest manifestation of the dismal "science." This is mostly because sanctions only r...

Producer Class superstars are sort of a freak of nature. The overwhelming majority of folks who become rich and famous are resolutely Leisu...

One of the lightening bolts of insight that staggered me as a man in his 30s was the idea that because there is no "away" the thr...

There is a certain beauty and nobility about the idea that we are the world and wonderful things happen when we think of the rest of humani...

There is no particular reason to believe that Charles H. Smith is a Veblen scholar or that he has even read The Theory of the Leisure Class...

The main reason for do-it-yourself home repair is that you can have something in your life that is unaffordable any other way. Pictured...

If there is one position I have maintained for as long as I have been writing this blog it is that, "Far from being a science, convent...

Last month I posted a large article on American School Economist Henry C. Carey, The only economists who ever created a national economy . ...

Tucker Carlson used to drive me into fits of rage. So now he has a gig at Fox News and suddenly, he has almost become a voice of reason. Ye...