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Storing Energy Bleg

Robert Waldmann I am eager to learn from this blog again. A problem with solar and wind generation of electricity is the sun isn’t always shining and the wind isn’t…

America 2012: Thank you Justice Roberts?

…face is surprise entrant Manuel G________, a wealthy third generation Mexican American little known outside Latino business, charitable, and religious circles. He currently is CEO of TelMUSA, a newly formed…

Somewhere Peter G. Peterson is weeping.

generations. A good introduction to Pete G P and his works can be found in this cover story in the Nation from last February Looting Social Security PGP is alive…

Reversed Psychology: Tax Cuts and Work

…shift could go the other direction in any given generation, but the whole effort was not particularly driven by the profit motive but instead by the desired outcome. Which is…

A different sort of crowding out

…Investors such as Warren Buffett and Bill Miller were the models. Those fellows are a far cry from this generation’s masters of the universe. Traders are in charge now. They…

Michael Jackson

…other powerful and wealthy African-Americans of his generation, racially ambiguous. Toward the end of his life he bridged his family’s Jehovah’s Witness brand of Christianity with a profound interest in…