• October 20, 2014

    New York Times: Unfair and Unbalanced?

    The New York Times is almost a parody of itself.   “In the spring of 2006, I quit my job as an adjunct professor at Boston College to protest the ...
  • October 18, 2014

    What really fixed the Great Depression?

    “Our Greatest Generation president, FDR, drove unemployment down from 25% to 15% [!] during the ‘30s using this recipe [government spending on inf...
  • October 12, 2014

    Team Player

    Robert Shiller and Finance as Panacea Shiller, Robert J. (2012-03-21). Finance and the Good Society. Princeton University Press. Kindle Edition. Yale ...
  • September 12, 2013

    LETTERS: Legislation by Delegation, the ...

    The core problem seems to be “legislation by delegation.”   The Dodd-Frank act and the Affordable Health Care act are both wish lists of Utopian...
  • Skyscrapers by Sharee Basinger
    January 13, 2013

    Corporations: More than People…

    REVIEW: Treasure Islands: Uncovering the Damage of Offshore Banking and Tax Havens  (1st 2011)   By Nicholas Shaxson.  Palgrave Macmillan  Nichola...