…are free from foreign or domestic threat: I:  How much, which parts of our nation’s wealth should be publicly owned? If the internet in the US were publicly owned, we…

…recently announced that it will end letter delivery altogether, leaving it up to the free market to fill the void. Some privatized systems have also reduced the frequency of mail and package…

…billion. For decades now, the Republican Party has schemed to destroy “welfare” programs, to free up budget headroom for tax cuts for the rich, most recently taking an axe to…

…S&P 500 was about 5900. Yesterday it closed at 7519.12, about a 27% increase in that one year period. That is an absolutely booming (or bubbly!) stock market, driven mainly…

…Hutton presents the democratic Enlightenment concepts as four: “accountability; representativenesss; respect for the rule of law; and the capacity, through free speech, for debate, exchange, and interaction.” As much as…

I read Paul Waldman’s posts on the Washington Post Plum Line blog regularly and agree with most of what he says, but his claim today that rural young people who…

…studies.) An economy is one such organizational grouping of activity. A democracy is another. A “market” is only a labeling of activity. It is one of many relational activities within…

…deregulation of the labor market is not on President Obama’s agenda and has escaped much commentary. Labor-market deregulation boils down to three things: weak unions, weak worker protection laws and…

…23, 2010, 12:00 AM I am all for free markets and not mucking them up with government intervention. But the economic theory of regulation tells us that if there is…

Which view of the stock market to you take? On the one hand there is the fundamental interest rate, inflation approach. It says that the market overreacted to the two…