There is a certain beauty and nobility about the idea that we are the world and wonderful things happen when we think of the rest of humani...

There is no particular reason to believe that Charles H. Smith is a Veblen scholar or that he has even read The Theory of the Leisure Class...

The main reason for do-it-yourself home repair is that you can have something in your life that is unaffordable any other way. Pictured...

If there is one position I have maintained for as long as I have been writing this blog it is that, "Far from being a science, convent...

Last month I posted a large article on American School Economist Henry C. Carey, The only economists who ever created a national economy . ...

Tucker Carlson used to drive me into fits of rage. So now he has a gig at Fox News and suddenly, he has almost become a voice of reason. Ye...

Former CIA Director John Brennan said today on Meet the Press, "...right before he met with Mr. Putin and talked with him at some leng...

Whenever someone suggest that we fund a Green "New Deal" (to use the phrase of Green Party candidate Jill Stein) a howl goes up o...

A couple months ago, I found online a very useful graphic of the major schools of economic thought . Take a look at it, with this questi...

Paul Street is rapidly becoming the most interesting contributor to Counterpunch . As the USA stalls out politically over the partisan argu...

For those of us who have watched in absolute horror as the neoliberals have retested their crackpot theories on a country too ignorant to k...

"The speech is extraordinary and, as one might expect, eloquent. Now that the lecture has been delivered, the Dylan adventure is comi...

Watching the American Left slide into irrelevancy at best and utter insanity at worst is certainly distressing but it is hardly surprising....

November 6, 1860. Abraham Lincoln has been made President by a 39.8 percent plurality of votes. The Democratic Party had split in two over...

The basic truth about money is that it doesn't matter what it is made of compared to what are the mechanisms for making it valuable. Mo...

Those of us who live in the frozen north tend, I believe, to understand more of the nuances and implications of climate change. We burn FA...

Probably the main observation from my Chicago trip was the seemingly huge mismatch between the purveyors of high quality goods at amazingly...

The story of what the oil companies once knew and promoted on the subject of climate change is deep and complex and for me, endlessly fasci...

Well, of course it would happen that a few days after posting I have yet to see a decent summary of Thomas Frank's new book Listen Li...

It is becoming a constant struggle to combat despondency, as I watch USA Democratic Party leaders shuck and jive, wriggle and squirm, to avo...

One of the sadder and more crazy outcomes of this fall's election is the Democratic Party's decision to blame their defeats on the ...