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I say no, he needs to get all of this out in the open and behind us.  But the Conservative Wall Street Journal's Jerry Seib makes a compelling argument that he should, using Jerry Ford's pardon of Richard Nixon as a reason.  Take a look. …

This past Sunday Felix Salmon wrote a post called "10 reasons for the lack of German econobloggers." I found it inaccurate and offensive. Let me tell you why. I was in Germany at the time I read the post and had been there for the…

The following is a translation of an article by Dr. Artur P. Schmidt, a well-known economist and economic journalist in Switzerland. Schmidt is also a keynote-speaker, who speaks regularly about new media, technology, future trends and…

Economics and finance are slowly coming to grips with the fact that human beings are simply not rational. The boom-bust cycle that we are now living gives us a front row seat to that irrationality. Below is a video by Dan Ariely that is…

Barack Obama has won the U.S. presidential election in convincing fashion. While I am clearly not a liberal nor a Democrat, I am pleased with the election's outcome. It signals a new beginning - a new era in American politics and in…

Race has a way of inserting itself into almost everything in America. I have always found this troubling. In this particular Presidential election, it should be the economy here, the economy there, the economy everywhere. Yet, we also…

I just read a post on the blog Duck's Pond about how the crisis in health care in the U.S. will lead to some sticky problems for baby boomers. It's an interesting take because it's not the straightforward…

This comes from Larry Wright of the Detroit News via the Moderate Voice

Here's an interesting statistic from the OCRegister in California. What are the twenty wealthiest cities in the United States? Pleasanton, CA tops the list with a median household income of $113,345. See the chart below for the other 19. I…

In reading about profit increases of some U.S. multinationals due to robust overseas business and the weak dollar, while the U.S. economy faces a protracted downturn, it has occurred to me that the divergence between U.S. worker and…