How Wal-Mart is Destroying America

You have to admit that is a provocative blog post. I could have entitled it “How Trade with China is ………”The reason I chose to come down on the world’s largest retailer is because their business model has been the indirect cause of massive job losses in the United States and in China. Their original

The Lost Decade

There is no shortage of news items crossing my desk here in the waning days of the worst decade in our history. The shadow government nominated and elected an inarticulate third rate Texas governor and a paranoid chicken hawk vice president who then chose a coterie of like minded neo conservative ideologues who launched the

Barak Obanker and Fed Chair Ben Banke

I try to add a new post when I read about some new outrage or insult to sensibility that comes across my desk here in die blogezimmer, my chilly unheated computer room in our log cabin in Jackson Hole. But I just can’t keep up any more. From one outrage to the next insult, I’m

Depression or Recession?

Readers of this blog know my opinion on whether we are in a depression. Whether you think it is a depression or recession is beside the point as there is no good definition of either. Oh I know, it used to be said that 2 negative quarters were a recession if the referee the US

Viet Nam 2.0

It’s been an easy winter so far here in Jackson Hole other than a week of sub zero weather this past week and only minimal snowfall. Helicopter Ben has been mocked before Congress and Obama continues along his blundering way using the worst ideas of the Republican party to ensure the ruin of his presidency

United Sachs of Amerika

I really don’t like to re use images but I do it to make a point. I have spent several years puzzling over why our country’s economy went over a cliff like Wily Coyote. Our political and financial leaders and our media have their take on the causes of this collapse and what they think