Tuesday, April 21, 2020

Clearing the Mist: Models and Ideology

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Models are deliberate simplification. You do not necessarily have one kind of labor and one kind of input and you have that input at a highe...
Friday, February 28, 2020

Very little of the gain, Most of the Pain: The Stock Market and the Real Economy

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Something like 80% of all traded securities are owned by the top 10% of households by wealth. So it is galling when we see the stock market ...
Monday, February 24, 2020

The Left at the Local Level: Aiding Access

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One of the things I have been asking myself in the last five years as I have become more active in my community is “What does it mean to be ...
Friday, February 21, 2020

Bernie Sanders for President

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As both a private citizen and someone chosen by the people of the Village of Brookfield to serve in government, I want to talk about who I a...
Tuesday, February 18, 2020

Alternate Economic Histories: The Great Inflation

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I may have mentioned this elsewhere, but one of the things that really got me interested in economics was that I was unemployed for two year...
Saturday, February 8, 2020

Diamonds Do Not Shine, Only Play With Light: Charles Joseph Mihelic Remembered

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I’m going to cry. We lost a father and husband. We all lost a friend. I lost a hero, a man larger than life so I never needed to read comic ...
Thursday, January 30, 2020

Learning From the Past: Ideas for Full Employment Now

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One of the things that I have struggled with in my studies is in how we look at economic history and how we use that to guide policy for the...