I have spent most of my adult life in a frustrating pursuit of a sustainable future--retrofitting houses, writing books, promoting solar / w...

The biggest problem with finance capitalism is that even when the Predators are at their best, they are still essentially useless.  This dis...

Yes, the study economics is a spin-off of the subject of moral philosophy.  And Yes, religion often has a great deal to say about the subjec...

Austan Goolsbee, the guy tapped to become Obama's new chief economic advisor, is just 41 years old.  If you believe, as I do, that the B...

In some interesting ways, history is repeating itself when comparing the current economic mess to the Great Depression.  Just like in the 19...

Because of the terms of the Japanese surrender in 1945, they no longer have a real aerospace industry.  So Japan's rocket scientists wor...

Toyota's Lexus division is just a little over 20 years old.  To call Lexus a screaming success would be, at best, an understatement.  He...

While it is economically obvious that those persons who are not Producers simply must fasten themselves on the backs of the Producers throug...

$50 billion (the size of Obama's economic stimulus package ) is not even a small down payment on the necessary work that needs doing an...

I happen to like Producers as people.  I like watching what they can do which is often beyond amazing.  And considering how shabbily Produce...

In his commentary The Billionaires Bankrolling the Tea Party last week on Jane Mayer’s important New Yorker article on how the Koch brothe...

One of the great sermons of American colonial puritanism is Jonathan Edwards' 1741 classic Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God . Americ...

One of the (many) problems with thinking you are #1 and hence always right, is that you tend to misread the situation in other lands. Let...

Well, the new infrastructure report for 2010 is out and USA gets an overall grade of D.  I personally never liked the idea of getting a D s...

I think I take the subject of energy more seriously than most because of where I live.  Minnesota gets cold enough so there are times when h...

People forget the Keynes and Keynesianism was actually the right wing / banker position on monetary and fiscal debates that had been around ...

Yesterday, Christina Romer--one of the supposedly enlightened members of Obama's economic team--gave a speech to the National Press Club...

Spent part of the weekend near Edgar Wisconsin with Tony at his book stand.  If you ever want to know how he comes to know so much about the...