To succinctly recap yesterday's blog post .... The media is largely baffled by Trump's popularity. What if the media created him...

Clay Shirky offered a fairly scathing critique of the mainstream media in a series of tweets last night. You can find his twitter feed here ...

Jeb's failure and Donald's rise signals real hope for the Republican Party. And this is coming from a guy who thinks that Donald Tru...

Here are some numbers that help to tell the story of today's economy and what that suggests about whether the recent fall in stock price...

"I'm a nice guy," Trumps continually assures us."Everybody likes me," Donald likes to say. I'm not so sure that...

Perhaps it is just because it is an election season, but it is popular to bemoan the state of the world. ISIS and a flood of refugees from t...

Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump are doing surprisingly well in this presidential campaign. It would have taken some imagination to predict t...

Here is some interesting data that shows job creation by administration with public sector (government) jobs broken out in orange from the p...

For the first time in 95 months, the unemployment rate has dropped below 5%, which is great. In this decade, we've had a lot of misery ...

While the stock market continues to worsen, the labor market continues to improve. But that is not the most curious thing about it. U...

I'm sure that most people would think me political and religious. And yet .... Watching the candidates tonight give their speeches (I ...

Here's a picture of Susan B. Anthony from History in Pictures . After they beat her, they arrested and fined her for trying to vote in 1...

It's an open question as to why oil prices have fallen so much so quickly. In June of 2014, oil prices were $111. They are now about $30...

Last year, " investment in mining exploration, wells, and shafts fell 35 percent. " With oil prices down, there is less reason to ...

In 2015, $58 billion of venture capital was invested in the US. [All of these numbers come from the Price Waterhouse Coopers / National Vent...

Sometimes progress doesn't look like progress at the time. Getting fit is an ugly business that involves panting and profuse sweating. T...

Kurt Vonnegut's family had money until the Great Depression. Then they didn't. His mother never seemed to reconcile herself to the d...

There are two kinds of retirement plans: defined benefit and defined contribution. While not technically correct, you can think of it as the...

Donald Trump sometimes says very reasonable things. "We spent $4 trillion in Iraq, lost the lives of thousands of our soldiers and caus...