Trump: A Fantasy of Being President
Donald Trump recently laid out his economic policies in a speech in Detroit, Michigan. It is no surprise he did it there. Detroit is...
It’s the Economy…Or Is It?
Sometimes it seems that economists live in a world different from ours. We have bills to pay, jobs to keep, children to educate. The...
The Koch Brothers, Trump and the Theft of the American Dream
Please take a look at the Koch Brothers' latest piece of propaganda--quite probably the worst and perhaps most consequential lie ever told in a...
Can a Radical New idea Change American Politics?
In September of 2017 Katherine Gehl and Michael Porter published a report called “Why Competition in the Politics Industry is Failing America.” It has...
Inequality and Poverty
Government is failing Americans. A nation accustomed to creating new industries, technologies and good jobs within those industries can no longer expect vision from...
Bush Revisited.
As I write this, articles by reporters who apparently can find nothing better to write about are pouring out their hearts to assign feeble...
The Nightmare of U.S. Private Prisons
With everything else you have to worry about—Fascism in government, domestic terrorists and the lack of intelligent response, a congress trying to overthrow all...
The Sanders Revolution
The world is changing again. Instead of a 40-something running for President, we have two 60 or 70-somethings. Maybe it takes that long to...
Putin and the Russian Economy
In the Fall of 1952, Vladimir Vladimirovitch Putin was born in Leningrad, now St. Petersburg, to Vladimir Spirodonovich and Maria Ivanovna Putin. His father...
Governor Brownback, the Wizard of Oz
Has Kansas, under Governor Sam Brownback, become second-rate, with a semi-Fascist government? The answer is in the history of the state since Brownback took...
The Failure of Conservative Economics–Pt. IV–Bush, Cheney and Big Government by...
In 1994, in an interview, Milton Friedman said that in the 1990s there is “much less optimism and all the problems have been...
The Bad News and the Good News
The bad news is here. And it will keep coming. Trump is elected and we see already what he has in store for us....
The High Cost of Neo-Fascism
At the very outset, let’s restate our definition of Neo-Fascism. Even if you do not agree with our definition of the current Republican Party...
The Reagan Legacy: Economic and Social Disaster
The United States was once the envy of the entire world. Even some very wealthy and prominent individuals in England and France settled here...
The Koch Brothers, Fascism and the 2014 Elections – Part II
So, here we have two brothers, raised in privilege by Frederick Koch, Sr., a man who was at first accepted, then apparently shunned by...