War on the Poor December 22, 2011 If this chart is right then after the conclusion of the Depression and World War II it took the average renter a week’s income… Continue Reading
Quit calling these folks millionaires… October 11, 2011 …they are multi-millionaires. Continue Reading
Our kind of corruption October 10, 2011 The founding father’s would have viewed it as such even if the laws today permit it. From a book review by Mathew Yglesias: Lessig… Continue Reading
League of Women Voters forum? October 4, 2011 I just saw on the news tonight that there was a school board candidate forum held by the League of Women Voters……. They didn’t… Continue Reading
No Joke 1 July 1, 2011 But its darned funny. But there’s actual substance behind the punch line: Colbert is setting up a superPAC to run campaign ads. The FEC… Continue Reading
Unconscionable March 10, 2010 Today’s story on Dr. Dixon’s continued plundering of a million in Desegregation funds to fund all day kindergarten needs some explanation. Here’s mine. Dixon… Continue Reading
Walmart’s Free enterprise/lunch July 31, 2008 I recently heard the author of the book Free Lunch give a speech in which he said that the Sam Walton descendents had earned… Continue Reading
Business Week Lite October 13, 2006 An interesting commentary on changes at Business Week Magazine which my Dad used to read religiously. Are Americans really more obsessed with getting rich… Continue Reading
The Peace Prize October 13, 2006 I’m very impressed with the Nobel Committee’s Peace Prize selection. I heard about Yunus’s small loans several years ago on NPR and they make… Continue Reading
The Republican “invisible hand” September 23, 2006 If there is any economic assumption that undergirds today’s Republican Party it is that Adam Smith had it right when he described the “invisible… Continue Reading
A case in point (about structural barriers to poverty) September 21, 2006 Yesterday the Duluth Trib had a story about a woman who went missing a few months ago. She was just found. It turns out… Continue Reading
Structural barriers to poverty September 21, 2006 An interesting column on Poverty by economist Bradley Schiller contends that for the vast majority of impoverished Americans their condition is short term. Schiller pointed… Continue Reading
Non-standard labor September 7, 2006 After the BBC news it was off to breakfast in the hotel and the complimentary copies of the Financial Times and International Herald Tribune…. Continue Reading
The GOP and making good money September 3, 2006 An article today caught my eye and on a topic I’ve been licking my lips to expound on. The GOP and its new ethos… Continue Reading
Stealing the Franchise September 3, 2006 In the old days (twenty years ago) Republicans agonized that Democrats brought ineligible voters to the polls. Today they are attempting to shore up their sagging… Continue Reading
and the lows are getting lower August 25, 2006 One consequence of the release of carbon, methane and other heat trapping gasses by the rapid economic expansion of the industrialized is that the world’s… Continue Reading
The Rich get richer August 25, 2006 This map shows the relative growth in weath in the world over the past quarter century. Its from an interesting collection of maps found… Continue Reading
When kids could be kids August 15, 2006 Vic sent me this. Pity the inexorable progress of today’s aspiring children. Continue Reading
Poison Pills August 1, 2006 Why are corporate execs paid so much more compared to “joe six packs” than they were a couple decades ago? This writer suggests it… Continue Reading
Jib Jab Hoot July 24, 2006 A pointed dig at “Big Box Mart” from jib jab that I’ve not seen before. Continue Reading
