Probably because I once had to write a paper on the subject, I am convinced that Luther's Protestant Reformation was the first large-sca...

Going through a bunch of autumns (knowing that you are about to deal with a winter where in spite of your best-laid plans, mother nature WIL...

As a creature of the North, I am all for suspending operations in winter.  Most of the crazy things I have done in life were done when I was...

The story of MF Global has mostly been a cautionary tale of Democratic Party Predators that are just as bad as any Republican variety.  The ...

Besides the existential problems caused when folks stop making things, there is another problem—if you don't make something for yourself...

I am a creature of the Left.  My parents were New Deal Democrats whose critiques of Franklin Roosevelt were usually informed from the Left. ...

Neoliberalism takes another beating this week.  It is an economics so absurd that making fun of it should be EASY.  Too bad it took so long ...

A new industrial sector - wind energy - is rapidly arising in the USA. According to the American Wind Energy Association , wind-generated e...

There are already angry crowds in the streets and those job creators, those bringers of prosperity, are about to make things MUCH worse.  Oh...

In all the discussion of Tuesday’s election, two notable results have received much too little attention. In Cincinnati , an admittedly slim...

No one has a clue how #OWS will turn out.  At least, I don't.  After years of politics without economics, we now have a situation where ...

There are probably many people protesting in Liberty Park who believe that they invented protests against financial institutions and glory ...

After watching neoliberalism destroy societies (and now finally itself) over the past 35 years, I guess it should not be so surprising that ...

Climate change deniers are not especially hard to explain in a largely scientifically illiterate society like USA.  If you don't underst...

When it comes to economics, Harvard has lost the once lofty perch it once held in its glory days when guys like Alvin Hansen and John Kenne...

Class warfare? We’re late to that party, but we’re here now. sign seen at occupy LA We as a nation may have forgotten how to make difficu...

Michael Hudson: There is nothing democratic about sending Greece into a decade of depression.

Back in September 2008 I warned that the standard of living was going to plummet as the nation's elites stupidly struggled to save the b...

I've been wanting to get this on the blog for the past week. The original title is Revealed – the capitalist network that runs the world...

Last night, I had a real treat.  I got to hear an old teacher.  I know, I usually complain about how lame most of my educational experiences...

Got a phone call from Tony tonight.  He's been a busy boy.  He had to do a show in Vermont and managed to fit in stops at Occupy Washing...