Index of Articles

  1. "I Should Explain to You Exactly What it is I Do;" Electricity has a 'Sit-down' with Politicians
  2. No Jerome, low inflation isn't - and has never been - 'one of the major challenges of our time'
  3. Electricity - Do our leaders lie to us or are they just stupid?
  4. Sure, Exxon Makes More Money Than God, but the Government Makes More Money Than Exxon!
  5. The Ivy League and its Graduates - Catalysts for Crisis
  6. The Enemy of My Enemy is My Friend: The Iran - Iraq War
  7. Victory has One-Thousand Fathers While Defeat Dies an Orphan: Ben Bernanke and Today's Chaos
  8. Russian Gas and European Pipelines: Facts, Fiction and Double Standards
  9. "Tom, I don't think you were a bad consigliari. I think Sonny was a bad don." US Policy and Russia
  10. Modern Monetary Theory and Choco Pies: A Lack of Goods Makes People Poor, Not a Lack of Money
  11. Regime Uncertainty, the Depression, Joe Biden and Energy Production
  12. Modern Monetary Theory, the ME-262 and Oxen
  13. Reprint: Tyson-Douglas, the Mirage Hotel Sportsbook and the AIG Debacle
  14. The Fed, Turning Japanese and the Shin Gin Ri
  15. Lights! Camera! Misinformation!
  16. Quantitative Easing: Easy to Start but Hard to Stop
  17. Economists and the "Goal" of 2% Inflation: It Isn't the First Time Economists Got Prices All Wrong!
  18. "Hold my Beer:" Steve Friedman Shows What Fed Insider Trading Really Is
  19. A Deck of Cards of Most Wanted Economists? It Would Only be Comprised of Jokers.
  20. The Fed's Airworthiness Certificate Should be Withdrawn
  21. Lights! Camera! Inflation!
  22. A Day Which Will Live in Financial Infamy - October 15, 1998
  23. PhD Economists and Central Bankers - Missing the Inflationary Forest for the Trees, Part II
  24. PhD Economists and Central Bankers - Missing the Inflationary Forest for the Trees, Part I
  25. Making Simple Things Complex: Economists and the Notion Increased Productivity Can't Produce Lower Prices
  26. Prices, Profits and Ordered Anarchy versus Shortages and Central Planning
  27. Is This Your Homework Larry? Lawrence Summers' Congressional Testimony on Derivatives
  28. 'Pass the Ammo and Pass the Hors d'Oeuvres' - The Ivy Leaguers Behind Afghanistan and Iraq
  29. Little Chocolate Donuts, the Olympics and the Fed's Dual Mandate
  30. The Federal Reserve and the Imbalances it Creates
  31. LTCM, Derivatives and the Flexible Use of the Term 'Crisis'
  32. Independence Day - Albeit not Independent of Central Bank Tyranny and the Cantillon Effect
  33. The Fed: A Century of Looking at Deflation Through a Magnifying Glass - Part II
  34. The Fed: A Century of Looking at Deflation Through a Magnifying Glass - Part I
  35. The Fed: A Century of Looking at Inflation Through the Wrong End of the Telescope
  36. A Safe, Flexible & Stable Monetary and Financial System: The Fed Provides This?
  37. Memorial Day Origins and Lessons to be Learned: The Wars of the French Revolution to World War I
  38. AIG and the Colonial Pipeline: Everything Wrong with Today's Economy in Microcosm
  39. Who Needs a Green New Deal When the Original New Deal Didn't Work?
  40. Its Not New and its Not Green; the Green New Deal is the Broken Window Fallacy
  41. Confusing Work with Progress - A Carbon Free Grid by 2035
  42. You're Going the Wrong Way! - Carbon-Free Electricity by 2035? No Way!
  43. The Housing Bubble was a Failure of Central Planning; The Green New Deal Will be the Same
  44. California - The Land of Energy Make Believe, Now the Template for the Country
  45. The Green New Deal will Make the Housing Bubble Seem Like Child's Play
  46. Electricity, Housing and the Best Laid (Central) Plans of Mice and Men
  47. The (Long-Running) Economic Causes of the Texas Electricity Crisis
  48. "Thank you sir, may I have another?" ERCOT, Wind and Thermal Power
  49. Take it From Ben Bernanke, Ben Bernanke Knows Nothing About the Depression
  50. Take it From the 1938 Election Results: Ben Bernanke Knows Nothing About the Depression
  51. Take it From Kosher Chickens, Ben Bernanke Knows Nothing About the Depression
  52. More Rotten Economist Fruit: The Electoral College and Gross Domestic Product
  53. Active versus Passive: Economists, Engineers, Nuclear Power Plants and Central Banks
  54. A Comparison of Economics and Mechanical Engineering Proves There is no Comparison
  55. Wow! You have a PhD from MIT! Oh, I didn't realize it was in economics.
  56. In God We Trust: All Others Need Data - A Look at COVID-19
  57. I Don't Feel the Need for Speed: The Ivy League versus Top Gun
  58. Cause and Effect: The Ivy League and the Financial Crisis
  59. Infrastructure as Stimulus? German Reunification
  60. Infrastructure Spending as Stimulus? The Athens Olympics
  61. Computers & Economists - A Disastrous Combination; Part II of II: When Engineers Act Like Economists
  62. Computers & Economists - A Disastrous Combination; Part I of II
  63. The Biggest Lie of All - A Tale of Two Photos
  64. Ben Strong and Alan Greenspan - Closing the Barn Door After the Horse Has Bolted
  65. Labor Day: What Better Day to Demonstrate How Badly Finance Has Lost Its Way; The Tale of Two Photos
  66. Why do we Suffer one Financial Crisis After Another? Because People Like Lawrence Summers Remain in Charge
  67. Frederic Bastiat, Ron Paul, Steve Friedman and the AIG Debacle
  68. Tyson-Douglas, the Mirage Hotel Sportsbook and the AIG Debacle
  69. "You're Only as Smart as Your Dumbest Nobel Laureate Economist:" Paul Krugman and the Housing Bubble - Part II
  70. "You're Only as Smart as Your Dumbest Nobel Laureate Economist:" Paul Krugman and the Housing Bubble - Part I
  71. The Best Thing About Being President of Harvard? Never Having to Admit a Mistake. Lawrence Summers & Derivatives
  72. A Lie Always Tells a Single Truth, You're Weak. Ben Bernanke, Regulations and the Financial Crisis (Reprint)
  73. Ben Bernanke's Selective Seething Anger - The AIG Debacle
  74. Bernanke - 'Central Banks an Important Source of Moderation;' Not Quite
  75. Rock, Paper, Scissors it Ain't; Exactly Why is it so Much Better to Own Assets?
  76. Rock, Paper, Scissors it Ain't: More on How the Fed Fertilizes the Rich Man's Field With the Sweat of the Poor Man's Brow
  77. Exactly How Does the Fed Fertilize the Rich Man's Field with the Sweat of the Poor Man's Brow?
  78. The Fed - Fertilizing the Rich Man's Field with the Sweat of the Poor Man's Brow
  79. No Blood, No Body, We Hit Nothing! - The Fed's Version of Predator - Part II
  80. No Blood, No Body, We Hit Nothing! - The Fed's Version of Predator - Part I
  81. The Federal Reserve - All Hat and No Cattle
  82. Normalization of Deviance and Central Banks: What They Were and What They've Become - Part IV
  83. Normalization of Deviance and Central Banks: What They Were and What They've Become - Part III
  84. Normalization of Deviance and Central Banks: What They Were and What They've Become - Part II
  85. Normalization of Deviance and Central Banks: What They Were & What They've Become - Part I
  86. Ben Bernanke - Central Banks, an Important Source of the Great Moderation(!!?)
  87. Today's Market Chaos - Inevitable Consequence of 25-years of Fed Central Planning
  88. Admitting a Mistake: One of the Many Things an MIT PhD Knows Nothing About
  89. Economic Performance: One of the Many Things an MIT PhD Knows Nothing About
  90. Inflation: One of the Many Things an MIT PhD Knows Nothing About
  91. Bill Dudley - The Perfect Central Banker; Ignorant of Both Economics and History
  92. California Dreaming: Renewable Energy and Which States are Doing Best
  93. The Energy Infrastructure - Self-Righteous Environmentalism, Electric Vehicles and Electric Power Plants (Updated)
  94. Sure, Economists Have Sunk the World; Just be Happy They Don't Design Airplanes!
  95. The Greatest Great Depression Myth of the Them All: Hoover the Laissez-Faire Capitalist
  96. Great Depression Timeline: FDR the Candidate versus FDR the President: Exposing More Depression Myths
  97. Great Depression Timeline: The New Deal & the 'Depression within the Depression'
  98. Great Depression Timeline: No, Ray Dalio, The Fed Didn't Raise Rates and Snuff Out a Recovery
  99. Great Depression Timeline: No, Prof. Krugman, War Undermines an Economy; The Depression Proves It!
  100. Great Depression Timeline: The Fed and the Bank of England Had a Baby, and They Called It the Great Depression
  101. The Fed - Capitalizing on the Chaos it Creates; A Timeline of the Great Depression
  102. The CIA - The Federal Reserve's Equal in Capitalizing on the Chaos it Creates
  103. (Reprint) The Fatal Conceit of Economics - The Source of Today's Economic Chaos and the Question That is Never Asked
  104. Bear Bryant, the Net Capital Rule, Henry Paulson and Leadership on Wall Street
  105. Paul Krugman Proves Economics Isn't the Dismal Science; It's Just Dismal
  106. Changes to the Net Capital Rule - William Donaldson, Useful Idiots & Today's Repo Market
  107. Derivatives and the Financial Crisis - A Look Back on the 11th Anniversay of the 'Lehman Weekend'
  108. "You're Only as Smart as Your Dumbest Competitor" - Fannie & Freddie and the Housing Crisis
  109. Reprint: Whistling Dick, Hank "The Hammer" Paulson & Hillary Clinton - What Does GDP Tell us About Voters?
  110. Alan Greenspan, Jackson Hole and the Fed's Intellectual Bankruptcy
  111. The AIG Debacle - Created by Lawrence Summers, Ignored by Tim Geithner and Henry Paulson
  112. Lawrence Summers and the 1998 Hearings on Derivatives: A Wall Street Shill Masquerading as an Unbiased Public Servant (Part II)
  113. Lawrence Summers and the 1998 Hearings on Derivatives: A Wall Street Shill Masquerading as an Unbiased Public Servant (Part I)
  114. The Errors of the Stabilationists are Identical to the Errors of Today's Central Bankers
  115. The Stabilationists: The Animating Force Behind Food Shortages in the Soviet Union & Bubbles on Wall Street
  116. The 'Stabilationists', the Great Depression and a Preview of Today's (Purported) Economic Ideal of 2% Inflation
  117. Barney Frank and the Lack of Personal Accountability Among Elites
  118. Jerome Powell is a Mere Shadow: Alan Greenspan & Ben Bernanke are the Sun
  119. Reprint: Chickens Coming Home to Roost - The Fed and 25-years of Price Suppression
  120. Reprint: June 05, 1995 - President Clinton Formally Kicks-off the Housing Bubble
  121. Lawrence H. Summers - Archetypal Dunce Among the Confederacy of Dunces
  122. The Most Dangerous Thing that Can Come to a Country - A Brief Timeline Courtesy of Messrs. Clinton, Cisneros & Cuomo
  123. Bernie Sanders, AOC and the Most Dangerous Things That Can Come to a Country
  124. "The World is Holding it's Breath" - More Reasons for GND Skepticism, Including its Similarity to the Financial Crisis
  125. The Green New Deal and the Green New Dealers - Reasons for Skepticism
  126. The French Revolution and the Green New Deal - Same Song, Second Verse
  127. H.L. Mencken was Correct; Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez, Ed Markey and the Green New Deal Proves It
  128. When Money Can be Created Indiscriminately, Laws Will be Indiscriminately Applied: The Steve Friedman Affair
  129. Buffett's Brass - Not the Yellow Metal - Fuels Today's Concentration of Wealth & Power
  130. Forget the Yellow Metal versus American Mettle; Nothing Matches Buffett's Brass
  131. Choco Pies - Additional Evidence that Wartime Spending Does Not Produce Prosperity
  132. Money is Not Wealth and the Fallacy of Prosperity Through War
  133. Wealth is not measured in money; it is measured in production.
  134. Chickens Coming Home to Roost - Greenspan and Bernanke Confront Market, Fold Like Origami - Part II
  135. Chickens Coming Home to Roost - Greenspan & Bernanke Confront Market, Fold Like Origami (Part I)
  136. Chickens Coming Home to Roost - Alan Greenspan and Charlie Sheen Chaperone the Junior Prom
  137. Chickens Coming Home to Roost - the Fed and 25-years of Price Supression
  138. Not so fast CNBC; Warren Buffett and Henry Paulson didn't save the world.
  139. Charles Evans - PhD Economist, Federal Reserve Official and Cipher
  140. Carrying Hillary Clinton's Water - the Media and the Flint Water Crisis
  141. Things to be Thankful For - Hillary Clinton is not President; Selective Outrage and the Flint Water Crisis
  142. The Fed as Public Enemy #1 - Modern Monetary Policy and the Destruction of Working Class Incomes
  143. Andrew Cuomo on Halloween - Far More Terrifying Than Michael Myers
  144. Who knows more about economics - Harvard PhD economists or hockey's greatest defenseman?
  145. Hang Ten - How Surfers Helped Put Men on the Moon (or Whistling Dick vs Hammering Hank Part II)
  146. Inflation - The Surest Way to Fertilize the Rich Man's Field with the Sweat of the Poor Man's Brow
  147. The Fatal Conceit of Economics - The Source of Today's Economic Chaos and the Question That is Never Asked
  148. The Federal Reserve and the "Fatal Conceit" of Economics - Necessary and Sufficient Conditions to Cause Enormous Economic Damage
  149. Paul Krugman, the Federal Reserve and the Fatal Conceit of Modern Economics
  150. Whistling Dick, Hank "The Hammer" Paulson and Hillary Clinton - What does GDP tell us about voters?
  151. The Housing Bubble and Financial Crisis as Central Planning by Government and the Promulgation of "Fake News" by Legacy Media - A Tale in Three Parts
  152. The Housing Bubble and Financial Crisis as Central Planning by Government and the Promulgation of "Fake News" by Legacy Media - A Tale in Three Parts
  153. The Housing Bubble and Financial Crisis as Central Planning by Government and the Promulgation of "Fake News" by Legacy Media - A Tale in Three Parts
  154. August 15, 1971 - Nixon (temporarily) Closes the Gold Window & Opens the Door to Inflationary Chaos and Wealth Concentration (Part II)
  155. August 15, 1971 - Nixon (temporarily) Closes the Gold Window & Opens the Door to Inflationary Chaos and Wealth Concentration (Part I)
  156. Befuddled by Bubbles: The Greenspan/Bernanke Era at the Fed
  157. "Don't worry Donny. These men are frauds." The Big Lebowski meets Ben Bernanke, Tim Geithner and Henry Paulson.
  158. Hillary Clinton and the American Federation of Teachers vs. Larry Elder and Dr. Walter E. Williams - Who Gets it Right on Education?
  159. Mad Maxine, the Housing Bubble and the Road to Ruin
  160. Printing Money is not Drinking Milk; It Doesn't do an Economy Good; Ben Bernanke and the Depression - Part II
  161. Like Most MIT PhDs in Economics, Ben Bernanke Breezed Through Chapter 9 - Ben Bernanke and the Depression Part I
  162. A Lie Always Tells a Single Truth - You're Weak. Ben Bernanke, Regulations, the Financial Crisis and Self-Serving Conclusions
  163. June 05, 1995 - President Clinton Formally Kicks-off the Housing Bubble
  164. Derivatives and the Financial Crisis - An Introduction to the Timeline
  165. Skewered by Skew and Castigated by Kurtosis: Did it ever make sense for 92% of Harvard undergrads to make the Dean's List?
  166. What does a 92er do?
  167. Why the 92ers? What is the significance?