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Ryan, Deficits and Hypocrisy

April 12, 2018

Paul Ryan is leaving Congress. Before he had finished announcing his upcoming retirement the airwaves were awash with commentary about his legacy. Count me as one of those who have a particularly strong perspective on this. Paul Ryan was, and presumably still is, a supremely hypocritical human being. Recall how he sprang into public consciousness. […]

Economics / Axios, Bain, capitalism, democracy, disruption, Facebook, innovation, Uber /

Watch The Boulder

April 5, 2018

There’s a boulder rolling down the hill. We are watching it carefully. It is accelerating. It is enormous. It will mow us down. Lives will be lost. Or at least livelihoods will be lost. People will suffer. The boulder is terrifying. But, hey, let’s keep watching. That’s about the attitude of the people who keep […]

Politics / capitalism, democracy, neoliberalism, parliament, plutocracy, Trump /

What Happens Next?

March 13, 2018

As we tumble from one degrading political spectacle to another it is worth remembering that things that mattered were actually addressed periodically, even if the result was tumult. For reasons not worth mentioning here I am taking good look at English history between 1909 and 1911. In this case the tumult was triggered by a budget which […]