Captain Capitalism

An interesting chart I found. Can really see any trend or relationship there. All I'm happy about is that economists are not on the ri...

The Economist has endorsed Barack Obama. And I now no longer endorse The Economist. Sorry, after what is approaching a 12 year love affair w...

A while ago my sister sent me this cartogram, expanding or contracting the size of each country based on its GDP. Just saw this one in The E...

Boo! Scarrrrrrry!

Fellow junior, deputy, aspiring, official or otherwise economists. I have decided with my readership going up many thanks to Small Dead Anim...

As it tis busy season and I'm in the middle of teaching dance classes, I have opened Cappy Cap up to several writers to help me keep the...

I have guilt. And the reason I have guilt is that I remember long ago the experiences that formed me and cut my teeth. And those experience...

I know; Facts. What a bummer. They keep getting in the way of hope and change don't they? I mean, can't those evil meanie right wing...

I've been fortunate enough to have some friends help me out with selling my book and some of those friends happen to be authors themselv...

Well, if it was Big Oil that made prices go up, then certainly it must be Big Oil that has made prices go down; Oh, but wait, we're not ...

OK, I'm going to go on a bunch of minor little posts that I haven't had time for, so here we go. Why did I waste $9 to see Bangkok D...

HAR!!! Anybody know the cartoonist for this? I can't make out the script at the top. HT

I don't know how many times I've had liberals yelling and shouting and at times crying when I'm debating them. Meanwhile, I...

I made a post on Obamanomics that was received quite well. However, the largest protest or complaint I received were from Obama supporters w...

So I click on the link to see John McCain's photo when he was in POW in Vietnam and see the caption below: Are you F#CKING kidding me???...

Tis true!

For those of you not familiar with Twin Cities geography, allow me to lay out the Twin Cities metro to you. In the center you have two ma...

Turns out it was not Cicero, but rather Robert Heinlein who said it; ""[O]nce a state extends the franchise to every warm body, be...

Oh, you so knew this was going to happen. And all you dumb Gen-xer's out there who thought the "Roth" was too good to be true....

Pfa! Romans. Cicero. What did they know? Didn't they know Barack was going to save them all? Besides which, it's not like daddy...