Retired industrial scientist with a lifelong interest in social sciences. I write on economic and political topics from a cultural evolutionary standpoint.
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Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) has brought an alternate perspective to the standard one on government debt. As a teenager developing my personal political beliefs in the 1970’s (when inflation was a big concern) I saw government deficit as money creation leading to an increasing number of dollars in the economy relative to stuff to buy. More dollars per unit of stuff means a higher price, hence,…
Income inequality has risen in America since 1980.
Explaining why he writes so much about the DSA, Jeff Maurer writes:
It's the focus on bullshit issues while ignoring the real problems.
Redirection of income that used to go to workers to investors serves to reduce inflationary forces
How the promise of America has been extracted from its people
It's the wages, stupid.
Peter Banks recent piece on the Iran war got me thinking on all the parallels between the Iraq War and the Iran War.
This is my contribution to the Boyd Essay Contest. Solving problems requires two things: a technical solution and a political solution.
Application to Democrats before 2020
