Gordon's Notes

It takes a lot of mental gymnastics to worship both Christ and Trump. But if you demote Christ and elevate Trump, both can have similar Prop...

We know the shape of the socioeconomic future for the bottom 40%  in the post globalization post AI   mass disability world . But how do ...

WaPo has a delightfully meta-subversive headline for an article about the failings of 21st century capitalism:  This Kardashian headline sho...

Unsurprisingly, given the current state of the GOP presidential primary, people who'd prefer to vote GOP are advocating third party equi...

Earlier today I reviewed a decade of Gordon's Notes posts about how information technology has supercharged old frauds . It's an od...

For the past fifteen years I've been fascinated by how the information technologies of the late 20th century supercharged old frauds. I ...

I've written recently about the role of religion in the reasoning of the GOP base . This is an  elephant in the room ; pundits will disc...

Theocratic states are, by definition, not rational. Stalinist Russia, Fascist Germany, Mao's China, Kim's Korea, Revolutionary Iran ...

Gay marriage is a done deal. That culture battle is done. We lost the gun wars, but we won on Gay rights. So now peace has broken out acros...

The weak are inescapable. Live long enough? Probably weak. Child? Weak. Wrong genes? Not so strong. Blacksmith post-horses? Tribe out of po...

In the past week or so I wrote a  summary post on how the people I read think about unemployment and the new American economy . I also wrot...

Minnesota has an undeserved reputation as a sober sort of place. So it surprises some to learn that  the Tea Party's Michele Bachman ha...

There is no Good in markets  Krugman writes. It's short and good, and it should be read in every high school as an antidote to Marketari...

Structural unemployment occurs when the skills and culture of the workforce are a bad match for the demands of the market. For Marketarians ...

I have not been a fan of the modern GOP. I see today's GOP as the party of torture, corruption, thoughtless bellicosity, cynical manipul...

Any Rand is the heroine of the marketarians ... Two biographies of Ayn Rand. - By Johann Hari - Slate Magazine ... In her 70s Rand found her...

Bush laid waste to rational government, leaving a largely broken and corrupted mess. Bureaucracies are hard to kill however. Bush coul...

Paul Krugman picks two examples of the corruption of conservative political institutions … Opinions for sale - Paul Krugman Blog - NYT...

This Consumer Report blog article is the first I’ve heard of this one. Apparently the reports started in 2007, with customers learning of co...

For many Americans, climate nihilism has become a core ideology ... Anti-green economics - Paul Krugman Blog - NYTimes.com   ... I don’t es...