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, Taxes, Deficits and Disaster
Mitt Romney wants to be President. In order to become President, he must persuade the American people that he has a better plan for...
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 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...
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...
Drilling Our Way to a Balanced Budget
The American Petroleum Instititute bankrolled a series of television commercials in which a very emphatic blonde parades through a series of set ups that...
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...
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...
Lies My Republican Candidates Told Me.
The Republican candidates are out on the Old Washington Trail. It leads from Iowa to New Hampshire to the Carolinas, with stops in Nevada...
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...
Rick Perry: Bum to Hero to Bum…Before the Campaign Starts!
This is how Neoconservatives…aka Neocons…aka the American Kinder, Gentler Fascists…work: they lie, then cover their lies with more lies, then let the truth come...
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...
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...