Economics

The Repugnican Tea Party won mid-term election victories based upon promises of bringing back the jobs and restoring the economy. Instead, Repugnican Tea Party leader John Boehner says “so be it” if federal government workers are laid off, and Repugnican Tea Party Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker is ready to give …Read More

To be brief…… Citizens Capitalism is a form of capitalism that takes into account a few things that our present system does not. I’ll just list them and maybe put in a short word or two. 1- All children born into this country inherit, in roughly equal part, the responsible …Read More

How the form of capitalism we now have got off track and is being rotted from the inside out.

Julian Assange, my hero

 Reuters photo WikiLeaks crusader Julian Assange of Australia, shown above in a photo taken last month, is closest that we have to this guy: I’ve been following the WikiLeaks saga for some time now but until now I have yet to comment. (I actually wanted things to gel a bit before …Read More

It’s interesting how it is just a given in the United States of America (and in other plutocracies) that in an economic downturn, it’s the poor and the vanishing middle class who will have to do with even less — certainly it won’t be the rich. I say: Fuck. That. Shit. …Read More

This post draws an analogy between the Environment and the financial environment and suggests that we approach problems with the financial environment more like we do in the physical environment because both have their own ecological balances that can be upset.