The Failure of Conservative Economics Part VII — Solutions

So what are the solutions to our economic problems? They’d better be good. The Bush Administration left us with an enormous mess. In...

The Failure of Conservative Economics Part VI – Our Current Problems...

We have talked about the problems with our economy. We have discussed how they have been caused by a cynical use of failed economic...

The Failure of Conservative Economics Part V – The Bush-Cheney Depression

The United States has been in decline since 1981. That was when Ronald Reagan’s charismatic personality took over the country. Reagan was the all-time,...

Time Out –A Look at the Republican Non-budget

Before we can return to the Failure of Conservative Economics, we must address a current issue on today's Neo-Conservative agenda...the Paul Ryan Republican Budget...

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...

Failure of Conservative Economics, Part III The Big Economic...

No discussion of Conservative economics will be complete without a full analysis and review of the theories of Fredrich Hayek. Hayek was an Austrian...

The Failure of Conservative Economics–Part II. Ronald Reagan

In the period from the 1950s until the late 1970s, the Conservatives were largely considered Right Wing radicals and economic zealots. Republicans of...

The Failure of Conservatism and the Future of American Economics. Part...

In 1946, in the shadow of the carillon tower on the campus of the University of Chicago, an economist by the name of Milton...

Romney’s Lies and the Future of America

The first Presidential campaign debate of the 2012 campaign was generally seen by the political punditry as a victory for the contender. Not...

Homeless in Seattle…and Lakewood…and Reno…and more…

Tent cities are growing all over the country. Over 47 million people now live below the poverty line. There are growing numbers of tent...

Dr. Ferguson…You Presume.

This might be called, "practical economics." It is a response to economic history and social commentary specialist Niall Fergeson’s article in NEWSWEEK and...

Romney Has a Serious Problem. (short)

Mitt Romney is doing something that many candidates do when they are attacked, and especially when they are attacked with facts that are very...

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 Ryan Road to Ruin

Paul Ryan had the courage to put his name on a budget that was announced last week. This budget will change his image from...

The Son-in-law Senator from Wisconsin

The nice thing about “stupid” is that you don’t have to make anything up or manipulate anything or try to exaggerate anything…stupid is as...