Lonely at the Top, Stupid at the Bottom

The main ultimate highest priority of one of our two political parties is tax cuts. Even though if you take the time to go read the polls you will discover that a vast swath of the people of the United States are concerned with a great many other priorities. Grover Norquist’s Club for Growth has […]

Finding Patagonia’s Better Nature

By all accounts what work a hearty new arrival might find Patagonia is less than none.

Surrender Your Bowling Shoes

Fashioning a New Path DeLong, Krugman and Stiglitz my touchstones all have been posting on free trade. Labors circumstances have been damaged. The economists penciled out positive economic growth, but none penciled in trade negotiators ripping labor a new one. I got people in my life, avid both-sides types, infinitely reminding me that Labor Unions […]

Fairer Trade… Looks Like This

Where the Ploys Are… “Income distribution characteristics” is a term to describe how a free trade agreement alters how and where money flows in an economy. It may be true that a new trade deal increases the total amount of money being exchanged between two trade partners, but it may also be true that more […]

The Lunch Bucket Card Carrying Men in My Family

Where the people live… in reality… they don’t live in trade deals

Pedal to the Metal with A Thousand Clowns

Norm Ornstein describes the partisanship to have metastasized into tribal warfare. Tribalism is about being a member of a group that you are above all else loyal to. Privatization, sending programs back to the states, rejection of spending on infrastructure, no new taxes, lower old taxes, and dismantle social welfare programs. That’s the village they […]

Precious Versions of Personal Hell’s

Lifeblood of Poetry and Passion Good morning from San Diego. Will report there is some fog out my eighth floor window at the Manchester Grand Hyatt. The heatwave seems to be over. National Weather Service is expecting another record setting week ahead. Welcome to life between the heatwaves. My barber on Melrose in Hollywood expects […]

The Great Tony Benn Hits it Out of the Park

Click Right Here and Enter into the Truth of the Matter Tony Benn gives a stem winder from over on the other side of the pond. Now 83 in ten minutes time he crushes it. The British lilt in the voice and the humanity of his cause ooze from this talk. Our work is […]

The Empty Vessel

Democracy is an empty vessel. The blanks must be filled in. Want to slow or stop immigration? Do you want low taxes, less regulation and globalize manufacturing and trade? Perhaps more home schooling and charter schools and scrap universities altogether and simply ramp up vocational career schooling. The stock markets of the world are a […]

How to Not Write Anything Brilliantly

We go to busking great Tim Motley enjoying his summer in Melbourne for this: “I try to sit down with my morning coffee around noon.” It usually happens first thing,” Dan Looker explains, “when the previous evening’s alcohol and the morning coffee meet in a front.” That’s some kind of weather pattern. The well washed […]