Economics

The French Government Fears Its People

Just a quick observation. In the US the people are afraid of the government; in France the government is afraid of the people. Citizens don't need to own firearms to make

Is It Posh Assholery Or Projection?

Niall Furguson is perhaps the closest thing the UK has to Ann Coulter. He's not a real economist or historian, despite his teaching privileges at Harvard. He's a right

New York's Middle Class Has Shrunken

The penthouse at 15 Central Park West, which was purchased by the Rybolovleva family in December 2011 for the full asking price of $88 Million. Their 22 year old daughter, Ekatarina, now lives

PhDs In Climatology

All it takes is a few February snowstorms to send the wingnuts into a frenzy over climate change. But not only climate change.  They also went into a frenzy about the weather'