Just when I thought it was safe to re-engage with economics I stumble across two more reasons for my blood to boil. Economics is – not to put too fine a point on it – a rotten profession. As in ethically rotten. Not all economists of course. Some try to tell the truth. Or rather […]

There’s not much to say. After all the brinkmanship and game playing over the debt limit last year, and after being ridiculed by pretty much everyone, the Republicans are back at it. In an election year and with last year’s plunge in the polls as evidence that voters just don’t agree with their tactics. What […]