Seeing Things In A New Light: Dancing

Musical expression comes in an infinite variety of forms – from professional musicians … to air guitar players, from formally … More

Earth To President Obama, Adding Speed To Our Death Spiral Isn’t Helpful

Happy Labor Day, Mr. President! Now can I give you some Main Street advice?  Get yourself some new advisors.  Maybe … More

The Oil Isn’t Just a Perception Problem

On the surface it may look like BP and the Obama administration are having some bad oil days. Rust-colored oil that … More

~ Sometimes, One Graph Says It All

In the debate over April’s 290,000 jobs added VS April’s increase in the unemployment rate to 9.9 percent (which some claim … More

Bring in the Criminologists

In May of 2009, Simon Johnson wrote in The Quiet Coup: If the IMF’s staff could speak freely about the … More

That Gaping Hole in Our Recovery is Called Jobs!

There is a gaping hole in our recovery and more and more of Main Street America is falling through it. … More

Facing Down the Wall Street Oligarchs (part 2)

And so the story of The Wall Street Oligarchs (part 1) and the Main Street Taxpayers, resumes with Simon Johnson, former … More

The Wall Street Oligarchs (part 1)

There’s been a lot of finger wagging at the unruly class recently. It seems we, the Main Street Taxpayers, have … More

Suggestions for the President

Personally, I’m just a little frustrated that we, the American people, are not being enlisted as builders of our own … More

Enjoying Will Rogers

I have always been a huge Will Rogers fan.  So when I spotted THE WIT AND WISDOM OF WILL ROGERS at a … More