My personal discovery that "liberals' were grossly intolerant of working people came as quite a shock.  One of the characteristics ...

When Volkswagen got caught using cheating software for their TDI line of diesels, I suspected that they were a LONG way from being alone.  ...

Oh, those lovely trade agreements.  Those of us who are veterans of the 1992-93 fight against NAFTA find it hard to believe that someone has...

The last time I made the mistake of attending a conference / seminar on the subject of climate change, we were treated to a keynote address...

During my visit with Jon last month, we both agreed that Michael Lewis is one of the best USA writers living. A partial list of some of Lewi...

It is really hard to know what part of Donald Trump's message he means or even understands.  I was a designated driver the night Obama w...

Not surprisingly, the global CO2 atmospheric concentration continues to rise.  It's getting into scary territory.  400 ppm hasn't be...

On April 8, 2016, I composed a post about the possible final demise of the British Steel industry  inspired by a suggestion from reader Mike...

I have just spent an entire (and entirely delightful) week visiting Jon at his home. I wanted to learn how to create and post a video to Yo...

Predator Class / greenmailer extraordinaire Carl Icahn seems to think the country / world needs a huge dose of fiscal stimulus.  Well, he...

Sometimes, I throw around the term neoliberalism as if everyone knows what it means.  Part of this is due to an allergy I have towards folk...

Michael Lewis likes to recount the story about how the charlatans, who were turning Iceland's very conservative banks into the go-go po...

The recent revelations about the use of Panama as a tax haven have largely slipped under the radar.  I think I could put people to sleep at...

According to the latest document dump, the oil industry had an excellent understanding of climate change and their role in the process as e...

Former Obama Attorney General Eric Holder refused to prosecute the largest banksters because, he said, doing so might ignite another huge ...

Trying to digest the remarkable news that 350,000+ people have plunked down a grand to get on a list to buy a car that won't be made f...

A week ago, I posted an excerpt from Commerce, Christianity, and Civilization, Versus British Free Trade. Letters in Reply to the London Ti...

In my last post, I covered the possibility that China could build an infrastructure of energy renewables for $50 trillion.  This elicited a...

So now we have a hard number on what it would cost to build a global solar infrastructure—the Chinese are telling the world they will do it ...

In January 1876, an editor of The Times of London penned an attack on the protectionist policies of the United States, which Commissioners ...

The United States was established as a republic, at a point in world history when all other systems of government were monarchies, oligarchi...