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

On FDR’s New Deal: The American People Sound Off

Back in 2008 & 2009 there were headlines, numbers, and analysis being thrown at FDR’s New Deal almost daily.  Obama … More

Words to Stir a Nation (And a President?)

Theodore Roosevelt’s THE MAN IN THE ARENA speech has long been a inspirational favorite of mine. But, in a strange … 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

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

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