Fearless commentary on finance, economics, politics and power

Economists’ bad medicine is a significant factor in our present stagnation.

Michael Husdon reviews the key themes of his recent book, ……and Forgive Them Their Debts, and discusses German austerity.

SEIU is acting like thugs. Please help reporter Mike Elk who has exposed more of their dirty linen than they can stand to have aired.

Looking at the gap between posturing and positions in Libya

Today’s Water Cooler: Polling (national, IA, NH, SC, CA), Bloomberg and dog, Buttigieg and staff, Sanders and worried Democrats, Trump rally, impeachment, employment, Bitcoin, Salesforce, Apple, Tesla, automotive supply chain, Wuhan corona virus, the environmental cost of email

Trying to understand CEOs’ blinkered view of risks.

A downbeat but persuasive take on the likely progression of the coronavirus.

Abortion as a class issue.

The cost of modern agriculture, as measured by a growing oxygen-free patch in the Gulf of Mexico.

Today’s Water Cooler: 2019-nCoV and China trade, Bloomberg, Klobuchar, Sanders, Warren, Iowa no longer relevant?, Big 4 accounting firms, pharmacy counters, GM robot cars, Google, Uber, Internet of Things, farming, reforestation, R0, Harvard union-busting, SEIU, gentrification, Jeff Bezos

The French strike over pensions has gone on longer than any other, even in 1968, has 60% support….yet the press barely covers it.

Coronavirus updates.