The Economy Has Failed the American People, But It’s Taboo To Say Why
The economy has failed the American people, but it’s taboo to say why because that would undermine the entire power structure that so richly…
All Three Pillars Holding Up the Economy Have Cracked
Karl Marx and Henry Ford both understood the key pillar of an industrial economy: the workforce has to earn enough to buy the output…
The Precipice Few See
Readers ask what I propose as solutions to the problems I explore. This is a natural question, especially in America, where the zeitgeist holds…
The Big Shining Lie: We’re Better Off Now–No, We’re Poorer, Much Poorer
Armies of well-paid apologists, apparatchiks and propaganda peddlers–economists, pundits, statisticians, influencers–spend their entire careers pushing a big shining lie; we’re more prosperous now than…
Grey Swans Are Circling
History is either “one damned thing after another”–a chaotic collection of random events–or there are connections between events that are not readily visible. The…
The Three Types of Elites
I’m occasionally accused of elitism, and this raises a socially relevant question: what do we mean by “elite”? Let’s start with a taxonomy of…