Inflation Versus Inaction
We now get a lot of activity from the theorists who say inflation is right around the corner. Every little up-tick in the interest...
Monetary Madness and Economic Cowardice
Since 2008 and the onset of the Great Bush Depression, we have seen some of the most remarkable and inane economic theories ever proposed...
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 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...
Why We Need Unions
There are a lot of people today who do not understand the history and the purpose of unions. And that is very important. Very...
Republicans Oppose Obamacare…and the Middle Class
For years, even decades, the health insurance industry has run medicine in this country. Health insurance is basically when a corporation gets between...
How Conservatism Becomes Fascism
In 1946, in one of the great cosmopolitan cities of Europe, ancient and yet contemporary, with a tradition of culture, music, popular culture and...
The Scott Walker Story
Being fair to Governor Scott Walker of Wisconsin is very difficult. It is like trying to be fair in analyzing the administration of Benito...
ALEC and the Corporate Takeover of America
Our government at local, state and national levels is being confiscated by huge corporations. It is happening every day in state legislatures all over...
Newt Gingrich’s Laughable Run for President
Newt Gingrich is actually a pretty smart guy. He has a little bit of Reagan in him. He likes to entrance you with a...
The Catholic Church, the President, the Heritage Foundation and Birth Control
One of the implementations of the new health care reform that has gone into effect is the provision that says that women’s reproductive health,...
The Parable of the Thieves
When reason fails, people fall back on superstition. The American society has long operated under the basic principle that hard work creates abundance and...
Grover Norquist: Lobbyist for the Rich
Grover Norquist is without question the kind of nerd that most working-class Democrats and Liberals like to attack. He comes from an affluent Republican...
How Fred Upton and Whirlpool Devastated Arkansas and Michigan.
Large corporations are often so huge that it is difficult to get one’s head around their size and their influence. General Electric, for example,...
The Post Office and Republican Treachery
Do you have a utility bill or a credit card bill that’s going to cost you extra if you don’t get it there on...