The Case For Liberal Economics
We have serious economic problems.As a country, we need to move ahead. China is buying up the world’s resources. Soon Russia will do the...
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 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 Republican Recession and a Budget for Billionaires
How do we explain the tragic situation in which we now find the country? The simple way to explain it is to say that,...
The Legacy of Ronald Reagan
It is time that we took a step back from the precipice that is the current American political atmosphere and try to understand how...
Social Security Revisited.
On May 28, 2009, in this space, we published a well-researched article entitled, “Who Stole Your Social Security and Why?” The idea was to...
Taxes and Stimuli, 101
So many stupid theories abound today, tossed back and forth between the billionaire-paid politicians and their paid think-tank economists, that it is hard to...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
Nationalize Natural Gas Production and Save America.
There is one simple and secure way to jump start the economy and sustain it over a decade. That one simple idea is to...
The Land of Opportunity–for the Koch Brothers.
In the south Bronx, the unemployment rate is 19%. In Detroit and other metro areas it can be even higher than that. The opportunity...
Forward…to the New Clinton Era
It is time to push and push hard for Democratic reforms of government. We can return to an era when jobs were prolific and...
Democrats in 2014
If you talk to leading progressives these days, you'll be sure to hear this message: The Democratic Party should embrace the economic populism of...