Have We Thrown Our Clean Renewable Energy Babies Out With The Global Warming Bath Water?

I have to say, I’m looking at our empty environmental tub and I’m worried. Was our “green” bandwagon only driven by concerns … More

No Longer Passively Accepting

I love George Carlin. He is a hero from my youth. Revered from the first time I heard “The Seven … 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

Will “Cap-and-Trade” be the Next Bubble?

Okay. I’ll confess. I’ve always considered myself something of an environmentalist. I don’t remember ever hugging a tree, but I … More

Have We Forgotten How To Be True Patriots?

I took THE TRUE PATRIOT by Eric Liu and Nick Hanauer on a four-hour cross-country flight and as it turned out, played right … 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

Clunker Goals Get Clunker Results – Update

Trashing a vehicle is pretty easy to do. Of course, if your goal was to to have fun and still … More

A Skeptical Simon Johnson on The Sun King, The Inside Man, and “Too Big to Regulate”

Almost everyone agrees that our financial system is broken. That our government is complicit in this broken system. That the … More

Kaptur and Johnson Detail Wash & Wall Dysfunction

US Rep. Marcy Kaptur (D-OH) and Former International Monetary Fund chief economist Simon Johnson discussed the state of the economy … More