Here is the table from The Fourth Economy. One of the central arguments is that we're living through a shift from the information econom...

Looking through my mail-in ballot and sad to see that there is still no proposition to tax pop songs to fund actual poets. You think I...

There is a marketplace for ideas. It doesn't necessarily reward more effective ideas. It does seem to reward ideas that are easy to expl...

There is still a popular myth that our founding fathers fought a revolution in the late 18th century that - by the time they'd ratified ...

This New York Times story about tax schemes used by the Trumps is a story of 3 things, only 2 covered by the media. link: https://www.nyt...

If you wondered what people mean when they talk about white male privilege, you have to look no further than Kavanugh's testimony yeste...

On America’s west coast there are examples of what the popularization of entrepreneurship could look like at the regional and company-leve...

Here in mid-September, Trump just announced tariffs on $200 billion in goods from China. This is a tax on American consumers that works ...

I had jury duty the other day. Along with 40 others, I was called into a courtroom to be considered to serve on a trial. Simply put, an indi...

I'm seeing a fair bit about how the recovery isn't real or isn't really done because people are still poor. That's nonsense....

I have this thing about institutions. When they use people, they're oppressive. When people use them, they're enabling.  Free people...

This week Bob Woodward's new book Fear and an anonymous New York Times op-ed from a Trump administration official describes a presiden...

Richard DeVos died today . In 1959 he co-founded Amway with his friend Jay Van Andel. Like Shaklee - founded just three years earlier - Amwa...

As I write this there is a bit of a furor over the fact that Steve Bannon was invited to an ideas festival hosted by the New Yorker and then...

One sign that the Catholic Church is losing its monopoly over the opinions of the Irish is the vote there in May to end the ban on abortion....

There were things I did not like about John McCain's politics. McCain and his buddy Lindsay Graham seemed intent on sending troops into ...

The world's fastest man in the 100 meter race is black. Has been for some time. It seems tough to deny that there are differences in pop...

It's more interesting to write about how to make future progress than how to protect past progress but we don't always have that ch...

19 July, Trump tweeted out a video of Hillary Clinton saying this: "We want very much to have a strong Russia because we think that a s...

Since Oct-2010, the US economy has destroyed 475.6 million jobs (layoffs, retirements, firings, quits) and created 494.2 million jobs for n...