1. Peak Capitalism
(Featured Articles/Featured Articles)

... our 21st century world. Nationalism, Patriotism, and economics all combine to make capitalism the overarching architecture of the modern era. However, if one journeys back to the late Roman Empire, as ...

2. The Owe-String
(Aetius Romulous/Articles by Aetius Romulous)

... Blankfein There Is No Recession in Heaven Lorax Economics A Crisis Carol Stock Markets are Not Democratic Free Markets Are Not Rational Like A Rolling Stone Editorial Perspective The ...

3. "Blogenomics": The New Economics
(Editorials/Editorial & Opinion)

"Blogenomics": The New Economics   Our world has become a chaos of complexity. It became this way slowly but inevitably. It is the human way. Each new thing begets another two, and each two in their ...

4. About ScreamBucket
(About/About)

... him off to no end. Aetius uses history and economics to weave his way through the choppy waters of capitalism and free markets, always in search of the elusive reasons why modern humans can be so confounding. ...

5. The Brief, Great, Vanished Social Welfare
(Featured Articles/Featured Articles)

... Capital would be employed for the benefit of all, with enough left over to beat their competitors senseless in the marketplace. In short, they would defy economics by using capitalism against itself. If ...

6. The Trouble with Tuesday in the Gaza Strip
(Editorials/Editorial & Opinion)

... Rage Impossibleism Food is too Cheap The Humble Tuna Freud's Bastards Economic Democracy Demands One World Balance Why is Lloyd Blankfein There Is No Recession in Heaven Lorax Economics ...

7. Twenty Things, May 10 2010
(Twenty Things/Twenty Things)

... geyser a mile under the ocean....it's all been for show. "   How Mathematics Might Have Caused the Financial Crisis As economics developed over the last several decades, the technical requirements ...

8. Twenty Things April 12,2010
(Twenty Things/Twenty Things)

...  Insane Clown Posse Miracles Thanks - It helps. A lot. Really. Rutgers University professor writes book on how infants shape culture, economics ...

9. The Empty Triumph of False Validation
(Aetius Romulous/Articles by Aetius Romulous)

... produced an economic system quite unlike the one that would develop later in the west. Where Capitalism got its form from primitive, unrestrained accumulation of wealth, Islamic economics were built upon ...

10. Twenty Things April 4, 2010
(Twenty Things/Twenty Things)

... performance when the problems of economics outside of multiple regression analysis is one of moral philosophy, human behavior, and our institutions. We teach people a lot of formulas. We teach them models. ...

11. Twenty Things March 28, 2010
(Twenty Things/Twenty Things)

... sins.       Batshit Craziness for the Thinking Challenged: Foundations of Economics; Laugh 'till You Cry Foundations of Economics is an introduction to economic principles. Readers will ...

12. The Unsightly Back of the Invisible Hand
(Aetius Romulous/Articles by Aetius Romulous)

... his "The Theory of Moral Sentiments and An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations" of 1776 now recognized as the starting gun of modern economics. Smith is considered today to be ...

13. Twenty Significant Things: March 21, 2010
(Twenty Things/Twenty Things)

... explains the obvious "The problem for macroeconomics is that the types of causes mentioned for the current crisis are difficult to systematize. The mathematical models that macroeconomists have may resemble ...

14. The Angry and Forgotten of Conservative America
(Editorials/Editorial & Opinion)

... has turned out. A permanent and growing social "underclass" that obeys all the rules of economics as they are currently designed. If you absolutely believe human life is not a right, and insist that ...

15. We Held These Truths to be Self-Evident
(Aetius Romulous/Articles by Aetius Romulous)

...  There Is No Recession in Heaven Lorax Economics A Crisis Carol Stock Markets are Not Democratic Free Markets Are Not Rational Like A Rolling Stone Editorial Perspective Göbekli ...

16. Are There No Prisons - Are There No Workhouses
(Aetius Romulous/Articles by Aetius Romulous)

... that wrote it, the entire structure of finance that developed as a result became a fundamental feature behind all of politics and economics, and forever more. After a stunning explosion from Urbino in ...

17. Göbekli Tepe: A Subtle Admonition from the Gods
(Aetius Romulous/Articles by Aetius Romulous)

... accumulated and ever will. You have never heard of Göbekli Tepe and yet, the earthbound remains of what happened there will rock the foundations of science, sociology, economics, and religion for generations ...

18. Leave Timothy F. Geithner Alone
(Editorials/Editorial & Opinion)

... He grew up in Zimbabwe, Zambia, India and Thailand. He went to High School in Bangkok. He learned Mandarin while attending Peking University. He speaks Japanese. He has degrees in Economics and East Asian ...

19. Banks: Corporate Bundles of Dismal Joy - and Mislaid Rage
(Aetius Romulous/Articles by Aetius Romulous)

... duty to choose the money, and to do so with extreme prejudice. They are barred by basic economics from participation in any activity that does not promise "profitable enterprise", regardless of the need ...

20. Yemen: The Most Dangerous Place You Never Heard Of
(Aetius Romulous/Articles by Aetius Romulous)

... about the earth's surface by pure cosmic chance. Like all these mortal hells, there is endemic corruption, inequality, war, poverty, atrocity, and broken economics. We call these "Failed States" now. And ...