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Never Ending Elections

Can this be true? Apparently two leading Republicans, in their own estimation, are visiting Iowa to start drumming up support for the 2016 presidential race. Perish the thought, but apparently it is the case. Rand Paul, our very own Ayn Rand advocate, and Ted Cruz the current bad boy of the Senate, are both headed […]

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A Dilemma

The recent crisis, and our not very good policy response, lingers on. The damage to ordinary people’s lives amounts to a hidden disaster that will take years to mitigate. The economics profession – and I use that word loosely because a true profession monitors itself better than economics does – has been shown as inept, […]

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Farms and Food Stamps

I was going to break my summer silence to comment on an extraordinary example of modern Republicanism today, but Paul Krugman beat me to the punch. Read his op-ed piece in today’s New York Times. I am sick of hearing from Republicans I know about the ‘waste’ in government. That waste is invariably caused, in […]

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