…the workplace.” *** Samuel Gompers, cigar maker-turned-labor organizer and founder of the American Federation of Labor in the early 20th Century, had a different business ethic related to labor and…

I’ve been reading Steven Johnson’s The Ghost Map, about the London cholera epidemic of 1854, and one passage reminded me exactly of today’s economics discipline. The sense of similarity was…

…since the late 19th century. That increase is statistically significant, although it may not be enough for everyone to notice. Despite the great need to move policy towards a global…

…the East India Company could access cash on the back of their government bond holdings in the 18th century, any pension fund, insurer or bank can do the same today….

Art at The New Arthurian Economics and I are looking at the relationship between debt and economic growth. Art started with an observation of two FRED series, total credit market…

…It’s long past time for the Obama campaign to educate the public about 20th century American economic and political history. And to challenge Romney’s intellectual capacity to recognize what facts…

…snow … James Hansen, the head of NASA’s goddard institute, believes that a 5 meter sea level rise is possible this century as the Greenland antarctic ice sheets rapidly melt……

…a look. Here is a graph of current expenditures that took place in the years of the current century. First observation is that anon’s math isn’t very good. Current expenditures…

…out in a marvelous piece titled “Stag Party”: “For much of its history, misogyny was not the style of the party of Lincoln. For most of the twentieth century, the…

…lobbied for Wall Street and accounting firms during first eight years of the 21st Century and had witnessed Enron, WorldCom and so many other blatant frauds up-close, knew that corporate…