"There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy."
Ideas about the role of government in society, its relationship to citizens, and about how much power the government should be given.
“I’m here from the government, and I’m here to help!” Image Credit: FreeImages.com/Daniel Perry In the preceding post The Keynesian Excuse: Secular Stagnation, I described the Keynesian revival of the … Read More
Tea Party Protest, Washington D.C. Photo Credit: Wikimedia Commons/Freedom Fan In my last post I commented on Peter Beinart’s confident prediction that America would follow the … Read More
Tomb of Karl Marx Photo Credit: Flickr.com/Matt From London These troubled times see Americans traveling in sharply different ideological directions. At least partially isolated from each other … Read More
Plato’s Academy in Athens Image Credit: Wikimedia Commons/Raphael (1509-1510) Recently I heard on Fox News of an event that illustrates autocratic tendencies among students at an elite university, and for … Read More
Ever since President Woodrow Wilson, progressives in the United States have expressed varying degrees of disrespect for the U.S. Constitution, and have chafed over its limitations on the implementation of … Read More
Hillary, the Left Face of Obama Image Credit: Flickr.com/azrainman It is virtually impossible to discern anything positive about Hillary Clinton’s proposals … Read More
Hauser’s Curve Image Credit: Wikimedia Commons/Sugar-Baby-Love If you were to plot federal government tax revenues as a fraction of GDP versus time, … Read More
Comparison of smoothed globally averaged temperature data sets with common zero Image Credit: tamino.wordpress.com Very recently, a friend and an opponent on a number of issues asked me to … Read More
A sub-prime mortgage? Photo Credit: FreeImages.com/Roland Maier Last July 20 I warned the federal government was beginning to practice the same irresponsible behavior that resulted in the … Read More
Is this how we should view expert scientists? Image Credit: morgueFile.com/Grafixar This post is a reply to the comments of my friend, whom I will call “Cheese” because of … Read More
Federal Reserve Building, Washington DC Photo Credit: Flickr.com/wwarby Last September 10, I commented on Senator Richard Shelby’s Financial Regulatory Improvement Bill in A More Accountable Fed. Greg Ip in The … Read More
Choice of directions. (c) Can Stock Photo In our last post I described how Obamacare (aka Affordable Care Act or ACA) is falling ever downward in its death-spiral. Its crash … Read More
Stop Obamacare! (c) Can Stock Photo Whatever Powers rule the Universe have blest the Republicans. How else can one explain why the Democratic Party would be so foolish as to enact … Read More
Obama and the World (c) Can Stock Photo Every now and then you read a book or an article, or in this case an internet posting, that is so perfect, … Read More
Casino slot machine winnings like stock market returns? Photo Credit: Wikimedia Commons/Raul654 By now it is common knowledge: Currently the results of the U.S. stock markets … Read More
Memorial to Nov. 2015 Paris attacks at French Embassy in Moscow Photo Credit: Wikimedia Commons/Stolbovsky Dartmouth College academics Steven Simon and Daniel Benjamin, writing the post Could Paris Happen Here? … Read More
Black flag of ISIS Image Credit: Wikimedia Commons ISIS (the Islamic State of Iraq and Sham) has just reminded us in … Read More
William Magear “Boss” Tweed Photo Credit: Wikimedia Commons (PD-US-unpublished) William Magear “Boss” Tweed (April 3, 1823 – April 12, 1878) was a notorious Democratic politician of … Read More
All a capitalist cares about? Photo Credit: Freeimages.com/Fernando Mengoni There are many such as Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, and Bill Gates, … Read More
Leaving the U.S. for more salubrious climes! Photo Credit: free images.com/Oziris Last June 10 I wrote a heads-up about a wave of large corporations possibly leaving the United … Read More
U.S. troops near Siauliai Zuokniai, Lithuania, April 26, 2014 Photo Credit: AFP/Petras Malukas The U.S. and our NATO alliance are now facing the consequences of a weak … Read More
A falling dollar? Image Credit: Flickr.com/Horia Varlan In our last post, Should We Expect Inflation or Deflation?, we discovered several things about why … Read More
Photo Credit: CanStockPhoto.com/dundanim What is it about conservatives that makes at least some progressives want to incarcerate them and otherwise remove them from any influence on society? I can understand … Read More
I have frequently referred to the autocratic instincts of the American “progressive”. It is such a fascinating characteristic of progressives given their self-picture of themselves as the epitome of tolerance, … Read More
Sisyphus and his rock. Photo Credit: Wikimedia Commons/Titian(1490-1576), Prado Museum, (PD-US-no notice) In the post Democrats’ 2016 strategy assumes America is lurching left. Are they wrong? in this morning’s theweek.com … Read More
In this post we will permit more dynamic economic change in the Solow-Swan model than we did in the previous two posts. This is accomplished by allowing the curves describing … Read More
Container ship from Asia Photo Credit: Flickr.com/Peter Kaminski Last Monday the United States and 11 other countries with shores on the Pacific Ocean reached … Read More
Anti-war demonstration in Berkeley, CA Photo Credit: Flickr.com/celesteh When I was a child growing up in the 1950s, I absorbed what at the time felt like … Read More
Speaker of the House John Boehner Photo Credit: flickr.com/Peter Stevens The day after the Pope gave a historic speech to the joint houses of Congress, … Read More
