Week-end Wrap - July 28, 2018 by Tony Wikrent Economics Action Group, North Carolina Democratic Party Progressive Caucus "...we had...

Tony (probably correctly) believes that I should write more about monetary theory. Good point. Without monetary reform, there is simply ...

How America Was Built HAWB 1954-1976: NACA, NASA, Richard Whitcomb, the Area Rule, Supercritical Wings, and Winglets Do you like to look...

We now have the technology in hand to solve all our problems. The only real obstacle moving forward is the thinking of all those people who...

Week-end Wrap - July 21, 2018 by Tony Wikrent Economics Action Group, North Carolina Democratic Party Progressive Caucus When a U.S. cit...

When I first started writing about climate change and the environment back in the 1980s, the atmospheric CO2 levels stood at approximately ...

Trump really laid a turd in the punch bowl when he announced to the world that he trusted the word of Vladimir Putin over his own "int...

In 1899, Thorstein Veblen would publish perhaps the most interesting, and misunderstood, book ever. It was called The Theory of the Leisure...

Week-end Wrap - July 14, 2018 by Tony Wikrent Economics Action Group, North Carolina Democratic Party Progressive Caucus Bill Mitchell ...

Last Thanksgiving, Tony produced a short post on the Nonpartisan League. Think of this as an update. I happen to think the history of the ...

Week-end Wrap - July 7, 2018 by Tony Wikrent Economics Action Group, North Carolina Democratic Party Progressive Caucus   Mexico Votes O...

Week-end Wrap - June 30, 2018 by Tony Wikrent Economics Action Group, North Carolina Democratic Party Progressive Caucus Democratic Elit...

The only time I ever drove the road to the top of Pikes Peak was back in the 1980s when the final miles were still gravel. Because the air ...

Week-end Wrap - June 23, 2018 by Tony Wikrent Economics Action Group, North Carolina Democratic Party Progressive Caucus The Supreme C...

I remember James Hansen's 1988 testimony in front of the Senate as if it were yesterday—has it really been 30 years? Hit me like a li...

While I was at the University of Minnesota, I had several neighbors from India—engineering and computer science majors (yes, there was a ti...

Week-end Wrap - June 16, 2018 by Tony Wikrent Economics Action Group, North Carolina Democratic Party Progressive Caucus Sen. Sanders wr...

This version incorporates most of the suggestions I have gotten, mostly from Tony's Progressive caucus, Grandpa Smet and my favorite po...

If it seems like I have been remiss in my posts it is because I have been been putting all my energy into the creation of my climate change...

Week-end Wrap - June 9, 2018 by Tony Wikrent Economics Action Group, North Carolina Democratic Party Progressive Caucus Billionaire fund...

For those of us who believe that energy is a primary need for survival, the collapse of oil prices since 2014 was quite frankly, surreal. H...