When George W. Bush took office, the NASDAQ was at 2770.38. By the end of his administration, 8 years later, it was at 1440.86, a drop of ne...

Obama is issuing the Presidential Medal of Freedom to 16 people and having a couple more over for beers. He's going to need to think bi...

It would have been fun to watch Hitler come to power under the watch of 24 hour news channels. I wonder if it would have fueled his rise or ...

Bankers are about to get big bonuses for the turn around in financial markets. Some people are outraged at the fact of bankers getting bonus...

The biggest problem with grades is that they start with the assumption that it is the student and not the system that needs changing. This i...

It seems to me that - as is so often the case on policy issues - the health care debate is now led by extremists. One the one hand are the c...

I wonder if one of the biggest differences between conservatives and liberals is how they view systems. Conservatives seem to believe that s...

The blog author seems unable to write this week. Whatever point I start seems too obvious or too obscure to merit posting. I'll offer th...

Thanks to a good quarter, the average employee at Goldman Sachs is on track to earn $900,000 this year. This only months after the US govern...

My daughter graduated from UC San Diego last month. Even people she has just met now feel free to ask her, "So, what are you going to d...

The guys at Google came up with a secret sauce in the form of algorithms that efficiently and quickly search the Internet. They understand p...

“You are responsible for the predictable consequences of your actions.” - Noam Chomsky 72% of Republicans said they would support Sarah Pali...

By 2014, the world's biggest economies are likely to have public debt equal to their GDP. This is not necessarily debilitating: many hou...

why do I like this so much? It seems to explain everything. - The essence of the message from my brother in law. I don't know what more ...

The other day I'm on the treadmill and I'm watching the TV monitors hanging from the ceiling: CNN, MSNBC, and Fox were all on. As I ...

We’ve now reached a curious and potentially powerful point in history in which our social reality will be less defined by any one dominant i...

Secular scientists, agnostics, and non-Christians have challenged the authority of the Bible. Next, a new protestant movement will actually ...

The problem is not that financial markets are too mature and able to create too much capital and credit. The problem is that the corporation...

This recession has one more dip in it before it’s over. The problem doesn’t stem from Obama’s stimulus package: California’s fiscal woes wil...

I'll join the chorus of voices lamenting the loss of Farrah Fawcett (and my youth). Every generation conspires with the media to create ...