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

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

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

~ The “square root” Economy and Goldman Sachs “Surprises”

The economy was center stage at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) meeting in Istanbul this week. So I thought I … More

Does This Make Me an Ethics-er? Or a Corruption-er?

How can it be? After 8 years of the Bush Administration and EVERYTHING that they did wrong, how could we, … More