Year: 2014

Yesterday’s defacto legalization of gay marriage by the U.S. Supreme Court  is a wonderful development. It appears certain that this non action by the court will cascade to all fifty states fairly quickly. This raises the question of why American public opinion has changed so radically in the last 15 --->> read more -->>

The relationship between our financial services industry, our government, and us, ordinary citizens who have repeatedly suffered the consequences of the avarice and incompetence of this industry, has always been troubled. Booms, busts, crashes, bubbles, depressions, inflation. Since the beginning of the 2008 Great Recession we have hoped that the --->> read more -->>

The 1/2% of the Population That Run Our Politics Recently I came on a Ted Talk by Lawrence Lessig, “We the People, and the Republic we must reclaim” filmed in February 2013 (18:19 minutes). This typically brief TED talk provides a compelling argument for why the dominance of big money in --->> read more -->>