Jake's Wisconsin Funhouse

This is 1930s level. I am stunned at how badly this could be screwed up. These people on Wall Street need to be straitjacketed, and bent ove...

Wow, I'm just stunned and amazed that for-profit corporations decided to swindle folks and make bad bets in an attempt to make a few ext...

So let me get this straight. 6.1% unemployment, increased poverty, $600 billion deficits, and widespread Wall Street corruption (and the ass...

I've since made my way to Milwaukee to count some beans and hopefully watch C.C. Sabathia help me see my team in the playoffs for the fi...

I gotta give props to Barack Obama for telling it like it is about small towns. I lived in a shit town like this in La Porte, Indiana, and t...

Here's a paper I wrote in May 2007 called "A Careful Depreciation of America". It doesn't have all the cool pictures and s...

As this big weekend approaches in the Badger state, a few relatively quick thoughts. First, it's been remarkable looking at the IU meltd...