Teenagers Doubt The American Dream

In the last 15 years, the attitudes of teenagers has shifted from one of ‘expecting to get ahead’ to ‘getting Continue reading →

Housing Crisis Pervades Attitudes

What is more likely: someone from the lower class moving to middle class, or someone from middle class moving to Continue reading →

Cleaning Coal Is Expensive

In the last few decades we progressed from coal companies worrying about mining but not about cleanup, to ensuring they Continue reading →

The Poor Are Working

“Work hard and get yourself out of poverty” is an old adage, but not a current reality. Of the approximately Continue reading →

Give The Money To The People

The recent disaster within the Red Cross’ disaster relief response is Haiti highlights a simple, yet, institutionally difficult issue: the Continue reading →

Iceland Makes Bankers Pay

In the midst of the Great Recession, Iceland saw that the banks had become too big to fail, and the Continue reading →

Puerto Rico Is America’s Greece

Greece catches a lot of attention for good reasons. Besides the implications of a failing national economy, Greece’s debt has Continue reading →

Zimbabwe Hyper-Inflation

Worried about inflation going up or down a full percent? It is easy to think that it always moves so Continue reading →