The Washington Post reports on an interesting development. If people aren’t able to “see” how they personally fit in to the ‘economy’ or ‘carbon footprint’ in a real way, they often ignore the ‘problem’ or keep it so abstract it does not touch them. Three years ago, Dan Yates and Alex Laskey, the co-founders of […]

Ron Wyden, Democratic Senator from Oregon who serves on the Senate Finance Committee and the Energy Committee, is generally considered a liberal, though with a mixed bag of positions that hardly qualify on all grounds. He is against the estate tax and favors lowering rates of capital gains taxes, neither of which makes sense, from […]

Obama’s energy plan. Clinton’s energy plan. John McCain’s site John McCain ran into a lot of trouble with Republicans the last time he proposed a bill on climate change, getting only 38 votes in the senate. I could not find an energy policy different than the current President’s. If you have access to one, let […]

We have been discussing a lot of economics through the political viewer lately. And I certainly have laid my point of view out there, but I also like the theory discussion. I like to think and know how stuff works or how someone interprets what they see. I believe discussing theories leads to better political […]