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World Map of Transparency International’s perception of corruption index for 2015 Wikimedia Commons/Turnless If there is one area of agreement between believers in capitalist free-markets and American Leftists, it is that … Read More
Galileo’s trial for scientific heresy by the Roman Catholic Church Wikimedia Commons/Painting by Cristiano Banti (1857) (US-PD-Art) I am not the only one to notice the increasingly authoritarian tendencies of … Read More
From Top Left Clockwise: Janet Yellen, Federal Reserve Chairman; Haruhiko Kuroda, Governor, Bank of Japan; Mario Draghi, President, European Central Bank Wikimedia Commons/ US Federal Reserve, World Economic Forum, Asian … Read More
Target the Rich! (c) Can Stock Photo The far-left in the United States — including President Barack Obama and the two Democratic Party candidates, Bernie … Read More
Vietnamese boat people, 1984, rescued by the amphibious command ship USS Blue Ridge (LCC-19) Photo Credit: Wikimedia Commons/PH2 Phil Eggman, U.S. Navy The photo above shows an extreme example of … Read More
The Gods of Fascism: Benito Mussolini and Adolf Hitler Photo Credits: Left: Wikimedia Commons/time.com Right: Wikimedia Commons/German Federal Archives Whenever fascism is discussed, more often than not the characteristic emphasized … Read More
Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton, and Bernie Sanders: A rogues gallery of economic ignorance Image Credits: Top Left to Right: Wikimedia Commons/Michael Vadon, Wikimedia Commons/Voice of America Bottom: Wikimedia Commons/Gage Skidmore … Read More
The Shiller CAPE: The most trustworthy index on stock valuations Image Credit: gurufocus.com The question for the day is whether or not we should invest in the stock market. This … Read More
U.S. measures of unemployment Image Credit: Wikimedia Commons/Autopilot Wow!! The Federal Reserve so distrusted the Labor Department’s unemployment statistics that it created its own?! That is … Read More
Candle charts of Dow 30 index on top, S&P 500 on bottom. Blue overlay curves are 50 day moving averages, Red curves are 100 day moving averages. Images courtesy of … Read More
Ottoman depiction of the siege of Vienna by Muslim forces in 1529. Image Credit: Wikimedia Commons/”Istanbul”, Hachette, Collection “Voir” (PD-Art) It is rapidly becoming obvious to a number of people that … Read More
Alvin Hansen (1887-1975): Keynesian economist who invented the Keynesian idea of secular stagnation Photo Credit: Rugusavay.com Larry Summer’s project to revive Alvin Hansen’s idea of secular stagnation is gaining in … Read More
The European Parliament in Strasbourg, France Wikimedia Commons/Diliff With the three recent jihadist attacks on Brussels and Paris, Europe has been given a wake-up notice … Read More
S&P 500 average earnings per share growth, year over year in % Image Credit: Bloomberg.com [Note on 3/26/2016: On Friday March 25, the U.S. Commerce Department announced corporate profits for … Read More
Compromise: Are our arms long enough to reach across the chasm? Image Credit: CanStockPhoto/photocreo A commenter on the post Economic Questions: Is Everyone Fooling Themselves? was concerned about the ability … Read More
Sukhoi Su-24M: Russian workhorse in Syria Wikimedia Commons/Alexander Mishin, © A. Mishin If you have been paying much attention to what is going on in the Middle East, you … Read More
Velocity of the M2 money supply (blue curve) and its percent change from a year ago (maroon curve). Image Credit: St. Louis Federal Reserve District Bank/FRED In a Fortune.com article … Read More
Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), Junior Senator from Rhode Island Photo Credit: Wikimedia Commons/Kenneth C. Zirkel Last October, while writing about progressives’ views concerning conservatives, I noted how Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse … Read More
Obama and Trump: Two sides of the same coin? Photo Credits: Left: President Barack Obama in Nordea Concert Hall via photopin (license) Right: Flickr.com/WalkingGeek Yesterday the Wall Street … Read More
A homeless man in the East Village, New York City. A situation we need to eliminate. Photo Credit: Wikimedia Commons/David Shankbone In my last post, Income Inequality In the United … Read More
Gini Index World Map in 2014, income inequality by country according to World Bank Image Credit: Wikimedia Commons/M Tracy Hunter One of progressives’ favorite conversations is about income inequality, particularly … Read More
Views that fuel Donald Trump’s Campaign Image Credit: Flickr.com/Mike Licht, NotionsCapital.com The political reactions working in favor of Donald Trump, or for that matter, Bernie Sanders have been a long time … Read More
Justice awaits! Photo Credit: Flickr.com/S Baker Neither the Democratic electorate nor most of the media have shown much interest in Hillary Clinton’s legal troubles so far, but recent … Read More
A modern day view of economists. By Rembrandt – The Yorck Project: 10.000 Meisterwerke der Malerei. DVD-ROM, 2002. ISBN 3936122202. Distributed by DIRECTMEDIA Publishing GmbH., Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons The … Read More
How can we get a little inflation around here?! Photo Credit: Canstockphoto.com/Bialasiewicz Do you remember how the European Central Bank (ECB) decided to try to add more zing to the Eurozone’s economy … Read More
The University of Chicago, where much of New Classical Economics was built by Robert Lucas, Jr. Photo Credit: Wikimedia Commons In my last post I began an examination of what … Read More
Adam Smith (1723-1790), founder of classical economics, which has flowered into New Classical Economics Image Credit: Wikimedia Commons/By Unknown – http://www.nationalgalleries.org/object/PG 1472, Public Domain At this time in history, the … Read More
Clouds: What cosmic rays help create Photo Credit: Wikimedia Commons/Fir0002 The latest measurements of cosmic ray intensity in the stratosphere from Spaceweather.com and the students of … Read More
Trump speaking at 2015 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) Photo Credit: Wikimedia Commons/Gage Skidmore Marco Rubio’s call at last night’s Republican debate to fact check the differences between Donald Trump’s … Read More
