…the neoconservative economic mythology that wealth is wholly based on merit and that the way to have a good economy is to make sure the wealthy, who are deemed to…

…an independent journalist who’s been covering political and financial news for more than a quarter-century. He’s been studying Social Security for the past 15 years, and just published a smart…

…brother”; not when he swept away a century’s worth of campaign finance regulations. So complete is our swoon, in the afterglow of the ACA ruling, that Bob Shrum has written…

…the twenty-first century (2006) several months ago. The 320pp book — one of the best general overviews of water problems that I’ve read [1] — is organized into 10 sections…

…science-fiction writers of the 20th century, beside those of Isaac Asimov, Arthur C. Clarke, Robert A. Heinlein and the Polish author Stanislaw Lem. In Mr. Bradbury’s lifetime more than eight…

…Paul Ryan believes will solve the economic problem much of the population faces today. Maybe in the past, the US in its early product life cycle of growth had the…

…The record spending total was made possible thanks to the Citizens United U.S. Supreme Court decision — which had the effect of invalidating Wisconsin’s century-old ban on independent expenditures by…

…prospect unfortunate because runaway inflation will result? You can count our problematic inflation periods from the past century on two fingers. Now count the recessions. Or is it because higher…

…medical costs predicted over the next century will require that the Medicare tax be increased, or that medical costs be brought down. But cutting Medicare will not lower medical costs,…

…2 shows, there were no such peaks. Graph 2 Personal Consumption Expenditures I’ve argued already that, contrary to standard economic thought, consumption is directly determined by income. (Posted at RB…