Recently Tyler Cowen at Marginal Revolution posted asking this question, and getting few answers . He posed it in terms of some people argu...

The following story got me curious as to how much Amazon earned in pretax income over the 2003 to 2005 period: TOKYO (Reuters) – Japanese t...

by the Sandwichman Dean buries his lead... again: "If we all worked five per cent fewer hours, then seven million more workers could h...

Seth Sandrosky published a very nice interview with me. http://www.truthout.org/070709E

The damage done by intellectual property goes well beyond the prevention of the downloading of music. Yesterday's story about a Goldman ...

Solastalgia : " The solace that one’s environment provides, the desolation caused by that environment’s degradation and the pain or dis...

While the latest nonsense from Eric Cantor gives me a headache, it is typical of what our Republican “leaders” have been saying: Americans ...

one ecosystem in diversity under the sun - Gary Snyder

1. Formulate comprehensive plan 2. Generate community enthusiasm 3. Get 'buy in' from industry/government/UN/Vatican etc 4. Use mass...

By the Sandwichman Oh, you thought it was spelled s-h-o-o-t-s? "We were on the road of things getting less bad in the jobs market, and ...

"Were I a Third World Leader in the dock, accused of getting my country hopelessly ensnared in debt, my defence would be that money was...

Nearly a year ago (7/12/08) I posted here on " Falling from the Period of Financial Distress into Panic and Crash ". In that I no...

I have complained a lot here about the Nobel for Paul Krugman, both that others did not share it with him, and that he seemed not to mention...

“Everything we measure is at the upper end of that range of uncertainty. So everything is worse than we were expecting it to be, and that...

I just checked with this source to see how state&local government purchases during 2009QI compared to where they were in 2008QIII and t...