In Blood & Spirit

Recently I attended the new Formula One (F1) American Grand Prix race at the new track in Austin Texas and it got me to thinking about economics. No sensible person would recommend buying or starting an F1 team (or any racing team for that matter) to compete for a season and run two cars without [...]

I became very interested in economics around the time the Great Recession of 2008 hit. I had been paying attention to global economics, but really didn’t know much beyond what I was taught in Macro Economics 301 at U.Va. a long time ago (yes, I took micro too). Unfortunately, it didn’t really equip me to [...]

OK, I’ll say it even though it may be wildly unpopular in the wake of the  nuclear disaster in Fukushima, Japan. We still need a nuclear renaissance in the U.S.A. I’ve been studying nuclear energy and there just might be a design that is safe, burns nuclear waste, emits no CO2 and might just help [...]

This TED talk by Yochai Benkler on the new open-source economics hits the nail on the head about the real struggle for freedom in today’s world. He shows that it is a struggle between the exiting industrial/information model that is running in the world today and the new social production model that is represented by [...]

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I have long wondered what happened to the Republican party of Abraham Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt and Dwight Eisenhower and where all the moderate Republicans have gone. Perhaps they are not all gone because we still have Olympia Snow, Robert Gates, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Susan Collins, Colin Powell and even Arlen Specter despite attempts to run them out [...]