BBC Blown Away by Post-Keynesian Economics

From the Beeb: Low Taxes ‘Boost Public Sector’
Hah!

Bolt for a Buck

I’m on my way to New York City (THE City, as it turns out), and I decided to be a little unconventional this time and take a new busline, called BoltBus. I saw the advertisement, well, on the side of one of their buses on the highway with their slogan “Bolt for a Buck.”
Doing anything [...]

Confederate History Month

Jon Henke, guest blogging for Megan McArdle, has a very interesting post on her Atlantic Monthly blog, discussing the controversies surrounding Confederate History Month (April) and, inevitably the nature of the Confederate ‘battle flag’ (popularized, ex post facto) that still flies rather ubiquitously in certain areas in the American South. It’s an understatement to say [...]

Oil and Creative Destruction

The other day, as I was walking into work at the Labor & Industry building in Harrisburg, I was startled by the sounds of dozens (hundreds?) of big-rig trucks circling the capitol complex, ensnarling the whole area in massive gridlock and collectively drowning the entire area with the screams of their horns. What was going [...]