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Punkonomics2013-6-24 Jesse and I chatted about some of the exciting things happening lately. Here are the notes i mentioned having on the show… which we didn’t exactly follow of course I mentioned my post (June 21st) where I spewed the following witticism in response to this whole drug tests for welfare recipients BS which is […]

Nicolas J. S. Davies is the author of Blood On Our Hands: the American Invasion and Destruction of Iraq (Nimble Books: 2010), with a foreword by Benjamin Ferencz, a chief investigator and the only surviving prosecutor from the Nuremberg war crimes trials, and the founding father of the International Criminal Court.  Nicolas’ writing about American war crimes has […]

Special Guests: Felix Balak, Penelope and Mia Dutton, and a special shout-out to “Feminist Frequency” on YouTube for inspiring several parts of our show! We aren’t telling you to watch her videos, but the link is right there, and it is very thought-provoking, so if you happen to have any interest whatsoever, it may be […]

Special Guests: Thalia and Felix Balak, and our regular, Corey Caroll. EDIT: The end of the show was lost due to a glitch caused by a thunderstorm (Apparently, Florida has thunderstorms in summer! Who knew?

My bad–what can i say, maybe there’s something worthwhile in there.

Inspired by Star Trek Jesse & I had Corey Carroll and my son Felix in the studio. We also had a great caller: Raphael from Lemongrass Edible Landscaping   

After completing my 3 year sentence to be the Chair of the Department of Economics, and dealing with Soviet-style bureaucracy and other administrative eldritch horrors, I’m reviving my research and scholarship! I had a blast meeting old friends and new, presenting 2 of my papers and discussing others. Oh how I missed the academic life: study hard & party hard!

Jose is a Rollins alumnus working on his PhD in economics at The University of Colorado. He added a lot of methodological substance to my usual ramblings and gave us some really interesting things to think about in hopes of improving the sorry state of economics and the world. We also had some technical difficulties figuring […]

Talked about this and that with Jesse.

Jay Gordon & Corey Carroll joined us for an Earth Day special. We wanted to share with you a voice not often heard in the media: Radical Environmentalists & most notably Deep Green Resistance. We need to continue this next show…

I was still basking in the after-glow of a brilliant Smashing Pumpkins show last night but Jesse said to wake up and come speak truth to power so I said: Sir! Yes Sir! BTW this was the 1st concert my wife Charlotte (http://secretofthefairies.org/) and our 2 kids (Thalia 11, Felix 15) went together ^_^ Corey Carroll […]

Chris Garlock and Jay Gordon joined Jesse & i Links: Bitcoin (anonymous, peer-to-peer, electronic payments system) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitcoin http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-04-12/first-bitcoin-now-gold-all-alterantive-currencies-must-be-crushed http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/04/what-is-bitcoin-explained The Reinhart-Rogoff fiasco in which the seminal paper behind austerity policies (tax cuts for rich + cost-cutting for everybody else) is exposed as shockingly sloppy. Conservative pov: http://www.economist.com/news/finance-and-economics/21576362-seminal-analysis-relationship-between-debt-and-growth-comes-under Liberal pov: http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/04/20/other-austerity-bloopers/

With Jay Gordon. No we didn’t break out in song from The Wizard of Oz… but almost haha

Punkonomics2013-3-29 Here are the sources Jay referenced in our discussion on Chavez Pro Chavez Dual Power in the Venezuelan Revolution The Death of a Boogeyman: The Corporate Media Bury Hugo Chavez. Venezuela After Chavez. Critical of Chavez The Deification of Hugo Chavez by Xavier Marquez  Hugo Chavez and Socialism by the World Socialist Website.

We had Corey Carroll with us Punkonomics2013-3-15