The Threat to Open Society and the Interactive Voter Choice System
The Problem The biggest problem for Americans in our time is the increasingly dangerous threat to open society posed by the trend toward plutocracy and its effects on the political system. George Soros...
View ArticleThe Real Solution to the REAL Fiscal Sustainability/Fiscal Responsibility...
In a recent post I wrote about “The Real Solution to the Fiscal Sustainability Problem.” But I was just kidding, folks. That was a solution only for people who think that Fiscal Sustainability means...
View ArticleThe “Progressive” Give-Up Formula Is Alive and Well In the Latest Deficit...
Self-styled “progressive organizations” and commentators have been releasing their own deficit reduction plans in reply to the plans released by Erskine Bowles and Alan Simpson, Alice Rivlin and Pete...
View ArticleA New “Progressive” Deficit Reduction Plan
Even though I deny that there is a deficit/debt/debt-to-GDP ratio problem, I thought I’d get in on the fun everyone is having this month and offer my own deficit reduction plan. It prescribes 1)...
View ArticleThrowing Savers Under the Bus?
In a reply to my post on a progressive deficit reduction plan, a commenter suggested that holding Federal interest costs at the rate of .0226 in the coming years would “crush” retirees and savers, and...
View ArticleI Shared My Thoughts with Organizing For America
Today I was favored with a message from Organizing for America (OFA). They asked me to listen to a video clip from the President explaining the deal he made with the Republicans. The President spent a...
View ArticleCongressional Progressives: Make ‘Em End Debt Issuance!
There’s a flood of reaction out there among Progressives and other Democrats criticizing the recent “tax deal” on grounds that President Obama was rolled again and got far too little for his agreement...
View ArticleThe National Debt Is Congress’s Fault!
I’m sick and tired of hearing progressive icons like Bernie Sanders, Keith Olbermann, Ed Schultz, and many, many others, talking about the evil of leaving an enormous national debt, now at $13 Trillion...
View ArticleThe National Debt Is Congress’s Fault! Redux
The national debt exists today because when the nation went off the Gold Standard in 1971 and adopted its present non-convertible fiat currency system, Congress did not repeal its mandate requiring...
View ArticleMoody’s: Bring It On!
Yesterday, as reported in Money News, Moody’s made me laugh, with the following pronouncements: ” . . . it could move a step closer to cutting the U.S. Aaa rating if President Barack Obama’s tax and...
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Riskonomics: Reducing Risk by Killing Your Worst Ideas — A New Book
About 6 years ago I stopped posting at my All Life Is Problem Solving site, and shifted my blogging over to other sites devoted to economics and politics, often blogging under the handle letsgetitdone....
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