Has the Fed bought the Economics profession?

There’s an intriguing and well written, though overly long, article over at HuffPo called “How the Federal Reserve Bought the Economics Profession“.
The basic idea is that so many economists work for the Fed, have worked for the Fed, or want to work for the Fed that their desire to please their employer has stifled debate [...]

A small step toward a much better world

The website Wikileaks is currently down.  They recently broke the story of the list of websites banned by the Australian government, and their bandwidth has been overloaded by peoples’ interest.
Wikileaks allows little people to get information indicting powerful organizations in to the view of the larger world.  They protect the anonymity of their sources, and [...]

Professional World Savers

The Washington Post details their travails in trying to be normal middle class adults.
I think we got the point after watching the Incredibles, the Spiderman movies… really the whole World-Saving genre is one long way of saying, as Five for Fighting’s Superman did, “It’s not easy to be me.”
Get rich first, save the world later [...]

What to do with $

Now that I have a real job, and may or may not have some other significant revenue streams/assets, this is now a question with more than theoretical importance to me.
Being back home, I’ve been confronted by the examples of my family members.
Some can only measure their net worth with significantly negative numbers; another measures wealth [...]