The Just Third Way

As if to highlight the importance of the several mentions we've made of how the current global financial crisis is affecting Ireland, to...

Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir, Iceland's new prime minister, is ostensibly taking quick action on the financial crisis, although at this point ...

As we saw in the previous posting in this series, Say's Law of Markets contradicts Keynes' belief that it is economically sound to c...

In the musical 1776 , the John Adams character spends the first few minutes of the show loudly singing about how Congress should begin discu...

Focus on President Obama's near-trillion dollar "stimulus" package seems to be diverting people's attention away from more...

In the previous posting in this series we learned that a Keynesian stimulus package can only make matters worse. This is because a Keynesia...

Mr. Obama is indeed correct that the country is at a " perilous moment ." The only problem is that, sincere as we assume the pres...

When we hear of economic breakdown, political unrest, and government collapse, most people don't think of Iceland. The true scope of th...

Norman Kurland, president of CESJ sent the following letter in response to a comment from a reader that, "The leading governments of th...

The Big News this week was, of course, the inauguration of Barack Obama as the 44th president of the United States. While many people seeme...

Aside from the fact few people seem to understand just what it's supposed to do, nobody seems to know exactly who "owns" the F...

by Dr. Robert D. Crane, Guest Blogger We have now had two presidents in the past generation who had difficulty with what our 41st president ...

I admit my hearing is sometimes not the best. To make matters worse, I listened to President Obama's speech yesterday while taking note...

You'd never know it from all the hype that has been flooding the media, characterizing the inauguration of Barack Obama as president of ...

This morning Mr. Chris O'Connor, Financial Secretary/Treasurer of the Colonel John Fitzgerald Division of the Ancient Order of Hibernian...

Just as the middle of the country (the United States) seems to be locked in a deep-freeze with respect to the temperature, things show signs...

Over the past week, participants in the Kelso Binary Economics Discussion Forum (which you can join by going to the CESJ web site, www.cesj....

The problem with the idea of focusing on jobs, jobs, jobs, is that it's been done before, and has never worked. Unless a "job...

While we expected the stock market to take a deep plunge as soon as the euphoria wore off from Obama's inauguration (being touted here w...

The rather chilling headline reads, " Obama seeks Dem votes for $350 billion bailout " (Associated Press, 01/13/09). While the ar...