One of the claims to fame one hears growing up in the corn belt is: We Feed the World.   That was always something of an exaggeration and ev...

Because economics is historically rooted in the study of moral philosophy, it is not at all strange that debates in economics often come lar...

Harvest Moon tonight.  It was already spectacular last night—autumn moons are.  A moon so bright it allowed work after sundown in those cent...

One of my favorite authors of the 1980s was Amory Lovins. He was an energy efficiency advocate who preached that it was a LOT cheaper to sa...

 Ah yes, the IMF riots—the logical and expected outcome of the sort of "structural adjustments" those insane people cook up at the...

I have been arguing for a long time that there is no "automatic" bounce back from a serious structural blow to the real economy.  ...

Spent the day driving across a segment of the Northern Corn Belt—you know, the part that got most of the rain it needed.  Quite a bit of the...

When someone asked Ben Franklin on what was the good of flight (balloons) responded, "of what use is a newborn baby?"  Back when ...

Outside of our imperial military adventures, nothing influences our international reputation more than environmental policy.  Obama inspired...

Big Pharma has been fined over $11Billion in the past three years and not surprisingly, it hasn't changed their behavior much—if at all....

It annoys me more than a little that for some ungodly reason, we must discuss the gold standard—again.   History has provided ample reasons ...

The banksters are amazingly quiet these days.  Perhaps it is just that with the elections sucking up all the air in the room, we aren't ...

Everyone here in Minnesota talks about the weather—it is a very important topic.  But you are not allowed to complain about it—after all, yo...

Watching the Republicans hijack to the Producer-Predator dichotomy reminds me of when they hijacked the "rising tide lifts all boats...

Last Monday, I wrote about a really nice home that had won a bunch of awards for energy efficiency.  It was beautiful and stunningly well-b...

My brother is just going to love this story.  And he has dozens of similar examples to demonstrate that the kind of problem outlined below i...

While it is fun to slap around the climate change denialists, this friends is getting scary.  Nothing good ever happens when the jet stream ...

This is the sort of story that makes us Institutionalists nod sagely.  It turns out that when it comes to drugs, the French and we have many...