I finally got to watch part (switching back and forth with Mythbusters) of the Sarah Palin show last night. I'm convinced that she's the smartest politician out there, the most connected with whatever America is right now. I don't know if … [Read more...]

The Fed devalues the dollar in "quantitative easing".... no questions from the establishment in either party. This kneeling to authority looks disturbingly like Iraq.   … [Read more...]

A little speech about disease and genes from Tom Boyce MD, Professor of Pediatrics at the University of British Columbia. On the CBC "Ideas" program, starts around 17:30. http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/episod... Here is an interesting example … [Read more...]

Here is an issue for the Dems: the futility of devaluing your currency to encourage exports. We are often told that devaluing your currency will lead to export growth. How does this happen? The country, say Mexico, declares that the peso … [Read more...]

Christine O'Donnell defeats Mike Castle, I would argue, on his TARP vote. Sen. Robert Bennett (R., Utah) voted for TARP. He lost the Republican primary for his seat in March. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison voted for the TARP, and lost a … [Read more...]

I'm putting together two quotes, one from a web site which I've been reading quite a bit, with a lot about urban planning and economic change, and another which presents the failure of this kind of change through battering realist approach, … [Read more...]

[This is a long piece that gets pretty conservative even for my tastes, but explains somewhat why we keep getting the same stuff from both parties no matter who we elect. And the drastic view of what change will really look like if it ever … [Read more...]

NY Times economics writer Paul Krugman has argued in two recent columns that the Europeans are not focused on growth, instead are looking to cut spending, and he thinks this will be disastrous. First of all, it looks like Krugman does not … [Read more...]