Year: 2016

First of all the worlds economy looks as bad in March 2016, as the US was in March 2008. Europe is quite a mess. Greece hasn’t been solved just dragged along with short term bailouts that don’t seem to solve the...

I’m so mad about this that I can’t even write about it.

Oh, it is a wonderful economy if you are in the top one percent. It’s not even all that terrible if you are in the upper 20% (though it isn’t great, either). But when you look at people in the lower 80 percent of the...

After the Obama administration announced yesterday that they would replace Andrew Jackson on the $20 bill with Harriet Tubman, I did a quick survey of right-wing sites to see their reaction. I was pleasantly surprised by what I...

When her campaign chairman John Podesta was asked if Hillary Clinton will consider any women as potential running mates, he could answer only one way. That doesn’t mean that I think Podesta answered dishonestly or that he...