The Fed’s Dramatic About-Face
March 4, 2019 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
"Quantitative easing" was supposed to be an emergency measure, but the Federal Reserve is now taking a surprising new approach toward the policy.
5G and Trump’s Tweets – Ignorance, Greed, or Insanity?
March 4, 2019 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
"The 5G Rollout is Absolutely Insane." Dr. Martin Pall, Professor
Emeritus of Biochemistry and Basic Medical Sciences, Washington State
University.
A SENSE OF CHARACTER
March 4, 2019 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
In a culture of bland conformity it is stimulating to find a challenge. It surely demands a response. To dismiss it out of hand would be to show no respect.
High & Mighty
February 14, 2019 12:11 am Leave your thoughts
A few decades ago, a visit to my cousin in upstate New York included a
trip to a shopping mall.
THEN AND, UNFORTUNATELY, NOW
February 14, 2019 12:00 am Leave your thoughts Our public duty is to demonstrate our lack of faith in the thoughtless and insensitive polity that erodes the social fabric as a matter of deliberate intention. Philistine and self-satisfied domesticity cannot be the aim of a thinking democracy in a creative culture
The Venezuela Myth Keeping Us From Transforming Our Economy
February 13, 2019 12:00 am Leave your thoughts Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) is getting significant media attention these days, after Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said in an interview that it should "be a larger part of our conversation" when it comes to funding the "Green New Deal.
‘No Love on the Streets’: Knife crime in Britain
February 13, 2019 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
There is something fundamentally wrong with a society when children feel they have to carry deadly weapons in order to protect themselves.
The Veganuary Dilemma
January 27, 2019 10:59 pm Leave your thoughtsThe Veganuary Dilemma
The Financial Secret Behind Germany’s Green Energy Revolution
January 27, 2019 12:00 am Leave your thoughts Funding through the Federal Reserve may be controversial, but establishing a national public infrastructure and development bank should be a no-brainer.
Marie Colvin, Homs and Media Falsehoods about Syria
January 27, 2019 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
In April 2014 I was part of an international delegation which visited Syria for five days. In each city we had meetings with political, religious and social leaders but also had time to wander about and talk with people on the streets.