Here's a map that should depress the hell out of anyone who has been following climate change news.  I am one of those people who has lo...

Easily the worst feature of neoliberalism is the insistence that everything must be run by individuals for a profit.  In their world, there ...

The economics establishment simply must realize that they are losing their legitimacy.  Of course, that would require a self-awareness not e...

This is the sort of idea that we especially like around here.  Trains burning diesel fuels must be replaced if we are ever to get a handle o...

Yes, I know.  We are supposed to be concerned about government shutdowns, the software glitches surrounding the rollout over Obamacare, and ...

Energiewende is the name given to Frau Merkel's green energy strategy and not surprisingly, it isn't working very well.  There are m...

Because the history of the USA is mostly about filling up a continent with immigrants, the dominant economic activity from day one was real ...

Known Ayn Rand acolyte and former Fed Chairman who was at the helm when the gamblers on Wall Street crashed the global economy September 15,...

To be perfectly honest, I don't actually know what it is in the proposed Trans Pacific Partnership.  I am not supposed to know—that is t...

I once attended a Veblen conference where academics presented papers on the life and thoughts of TBV.  The mere fact that there are still fo...

As anyone old enough to remember paying $2600 for a 40 meg hard drive can tell you, coming early to a technology party can be very, very exp...

In spite of the lack of headline news, the economic depression that continues to hammer much of the Euro-zone keeps rolling on.  Of course, ...

I once heard a serious scientist explain that one of the "solutions" to the carbon loading of the atmosphere was an organized syst...

I have long argued that the only effective way to change a person's mind or behavior is to give them a better alternative.  In fact, I a...

One of the key components to the realization of green / mostly-electric society is a better distribution system.  Not only must electricity ...

Considering the almost never-ending list of major economic catastrophes that afflict the planet, it would seem that the Riksbank Prize (Nobe...

Anyone who has seen the phalanx of robocops surrounding the gatherings of high finance will not be the least bit surprised by the following ...

Some pictures really do speak louder than words. From ZeroHedge :

Over on DailyKos, GreenMother posted How to Think Ahead, or: What the GOP is really asking for , following to its logical conclusions the in...

Perhaps the thing that bothers me most about the climate change debate is the complete lack of urgency.  For some reason, even those who und...