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...
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 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...
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 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...
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...
Romney Lies about the President
There is a point beyond which credulity will not go. You can lie to some of the people, as Lincoln said, all of the...
Here Comes the Election Year Propaganda
If you think you have been lied to before…you ain’t seen nuthin’ yet. It’s an election year and therefore the amount and the degree...
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...
A Tariff Policy to Create Jobs
We need exports and imports. We need jobs. And we need more jobs than can be provided by exports. In other words,at a very...
Wake Up, Republicans, Before It Is Too Late!
The recent elections have brought some emotional and some real political relief to a beleaguered Middle Class, but we need to point out a...
OCCUPY AMERICA!
The last big show of Populist sentiment in this country was when the people of Wisconsin stood up against an oppressive Governor and a...
The Economics of Robert Reich.
Many short men are taller than Robert Reich. But as they said about Ari Onassis (who wasn’t that short, Ms. Onassis was just a...
To Find a Job, Fire a Republican
---------------------------------------------------------------------------Remember the goal: 220-60-1 for 2012. Two-hundred and twenty Democratic House Members, Sixty solid Liberal Democratic Senators and a Democratic President. This is the...