Economics & Empire

Honest Water

On the banks of a river, but can't get a drink.

Promoting Prodigality

News Flash: The Fed to reward spendthrifts and debtors!!

Profiting on Localism

Macy's goes local. Except for the profits.

TARP: RIP

TARP has expired. Are we better off for it?

Hearing Wendell Berry

For Wendell Berry, the environmentalist cause and the localist cause are (or should be) one and the same.

Gunning for No. 12

Is being Number One all it's cracked up to be?

A Brief History of Time Wasted.

The Ninth Anniversary of 9/11/01; Three Squared Equals Zero in the New American Math.

Reflections on 9/11

Is being an American worth it?

And whaddaya get?

My review of Hardy Green's The Company Town is in today's Wall Street Journal.

Neo-Feudalism and the Invisible Fist

So how did we get to a situation where the “freedom of markets” has come to mean “servility” and corporate control?