The Just Third Way

A few items this week, but with some profound implications.   We call your particular attention to the GoFundMe campaign for Joe Recinos:

      Yesterday we looked at the recent spate of strikes and strike-threats that have gotten this month renamed “Striketober.”   Of course,...

       Seemingly out of nowhere, American workers are threatening strikes; October is being labeled “Striketober. ”   Largely as the result ...

       In the previous posting on this subject , we promised (or threatened, depending on your point of view) on the meaning of “liberal dem...

For a bit of a change of pace, this week’s podcast features an interview with Jack Stack, who came up with the concept of “The Great Game of...

  What with the politicians fighting and the economists arguing, it might seem to you as if no progress is being made . . . and you’d be rig...

       As we saw in the previous posting on this subject , honest or legitimate money can only be created by backing it with something of va...

Today’s posting is in support of a GoFundMe campaign to raise money to defray the medical expenses of a “Soldier of Justice” who has devoted...

 In the previous posting on this subject , we noted that as the “free land” of the 1862 Homestead Act ran out, the concentration of wealth a...

Continuing our series of scare stories about disappearing jobs — and the futility of spending money on “job creation” — we have this little ...

Interestingly, many of the news items — if not all of them — revolve around the issue of money and the fact that few people seem to understa...

      As we saw in the previous posting on this subject , the belief that new cap[ital can only be financed by cutting consumption and accum...

      No, we’re not talking about a Cuban band leader or even someone who plays one on television, even if we do love Lucy.   What we’re tal...

       For centuries and with increasing regularity in our day, the cry has gone up that instead of taxing ordinary people, the government s...

       No, this is not a posting about The Terminator . . . unless you’re talking about all the jobs that are going to be terminated by adv...

All of the antics on Capitol Hill and Wall Street keep reminding us of just how easily much of the mess could be cleaned up with the Economi...

       As we saw in the previous posting on this subject , the past savings assumption of today’s mainstream schools of economics and the Gr...

In addition to writing epic poems about Lepanto (the 450 th anniversary of which is coming up next week on October 7, read all about it in ...

      How was it that the rich were able to use the Financial Revolution top such great benefit while the rest of humanity was left behind i...

Today’s podcast is a video that asks the question that Louis Kelso answers with universal capital ownership: If robots are doing all the wor...

It’s astonishing just how many problems could easily be solved by enacting the Economic Democracy Act .   This week’s news items are defini...

      As we saw in the previous posting on this subject , “usury” is not all profit or interest, but profit (or interest) taken when no prof...

      Last week — or maybe it was really early this week (when something comes in on the weekend it’s sometimes hard to tell whether it’s la...

In the previous posting on this subject , we pointed out a few foibles of socialism, noting especially the idea that the only legitimate way...