In the new American ghetto, the nightmare engine is bubble economics, a kind of high-tech casino scam that kills neighborhoods just like dope does, o….

The world's most powerful investment bank is a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into an….

Criminal justice, as it pertains to the Goldmans and Morgan Stanleys of the world, is not adversarial combat, with cops and crooks duking it out in i….

There really are two Americas, one for the grifter class and one for everybody else. In everybody-else land, the world of small businesses and wage-e….

Our leaders know we’re turning into a giant ghetto and they are taking every last hubcap they can get their hands on before the rest of us wake up an….

In modern American politics, being the right kind of ignorant and entertainingly crazy is like having a big right hand in boxing; you've always got a….

This story is the ultimate example of American’s biggest political problem. We no longer have the attention span to deal with any twenty-first centur….

In a society governed passively by free markets and free elections, organized greed always defeats disorganized democracy..

We paid for this instead of a generation of health insurance, or an alternative energy grid, or a brand-new system of roads and highways. With the $1….

There is a reason it used to be a crime in the Confederate states to teach a slave to read: Literacy is power..

'Nobody goes to jail.' This is the mantra of the financial-crisis era, one that saw virtually every major bank and financial company on Wall Street e….

I think America has the best assholes in the world. I defy the Belgians or the Japanese to produce something like a Donald Trump..

Conspiracy theorists of the world, believers in the hidden hands of the Rothschilds and the Masons and the Illuminati, we skeptics owe you an apology….

You can have somebody living next door to you and you can live in a completely different world from that person, which is definitely something we've ….

Why is JP Morgan getting so much heat? Maybe because it is a massive international crime syndicate..

To be robbed and betrayed by a fiendish underground conspiracy, or by the earthly agents of Satan, is at least a romantic sort of plight - it suggest….

'American Sniper' is a movie whose politics are so ludicrous and idiotic that under normal circumstances it would be beneath criticism. The only thin….

Like wars, forest fires and bad marriages, really stupid laws are much easier to begin than they are to end..

In other countries they have histories with revolutions and class movements. In America, people don't like to think of themselves like being in a low….

Being a wiseass in a groupthink environment is like throwing an egg at a bulldozer..

Unquestionably, however, something else is at work, something that cuts deeper into the American psyche. We have a profound hatred of the weak and th….