Broad Oak Magazine

Seeking to draw parallels between modern America and decadent Rome , Washington's Blog links to this: A dwindling middle class, th...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children's_Games_(Bruegel )# In Philip K Dick's " Minority Report " anthology there is a...

From Jesse

Jesse explains succinctly how the financiers are deliberately wrecking and looting what's left of the economy. The money the government...

BBC economic journalist Robert Peston recently professed himself "nauseous" on reading of the paltry £9 million per head earned by...

"Economist's View" argues that the Gini Index will go on rising until someone positively stops it: Once income concentration b...

A chewy piece from Professor Perry about the widely-held perception that the American middle class has essentially gotten nowhere since 1980...

I've said more than once that the housing market is segmented geographically and by price bracket, so discussion of house price movement...

... Americans will thus pay for the TARP and low interest rate subsidies to their financial rulers with erosion in the purchasing power of t...

... sang Creedence Clearwater Revival. And as Panzner points out , inequality and growing poverty are factors that destabilise society. He ...

... the economic problems of the future will not be about growth but about something more nettlesome: the ineluctable increase in the number...

The cure will be to increase the median wage, and to stop the transfer of the national income to fewer and fewer hands. For that is how the ...

Mish gives us a few interesting graphs on the US housing market and asks whether it's hit bottom yet. I did leave a comment but it disa...

A few days ago , I charted American public debt in the 2oth century. I also wrote to the Spectator (they didn't publish) to point out th...

This extract ( highlight mine ) from Robert P. Murphy's essay on the Mises Institute website explains some of the process whereby hard t...

Michael Hudson sees the current crisis as deliberately fomented, and intentionally anti-democratic ( htp: Anon, on Nourishing Obscurity ). T...

For years, at least since the Reagan era, we in the US have heard the Republican Party mantra that the answer to growing the economy is to c...

Here is a letter to the NYT from the insouciant Don Boudreaux. Unfortunately the comments to this piece on Cafe Hayek are closed - I wonder ...

Wikipedia reports that chief executive Angelo Mozilo cashed in over $400 million (about a third of it in 2006/7) in Countrywide Financial s...