Billionaires, having put the squeeze on US-funded science as well as everything else the state needs to do, are using their money to direct scientific research.

We have to take away from those billionaires the ill-gotten gains they achieved through corrupting our laws and regulatory agencies. Most of it should go to the Americans they have impoverished, but some should go to the public treasury to fund all the things that states ought to do.

Above all we should not let these billionaires buy legitimacy for their overlarge share of our national income by giving away a fraction of it, even if the causes they give it to are good ones.

The (inadequate) Dodd-Frank financial reform law tried to limit the Federal Reserve's power to bail out banks. The Federal Reserve seeks to implement it in regulations so weak that they won't change much.

It seems to me that emergency loans to banks should carry a variable interest rate computed so as to assure it is high enough that banks won't be eager to borrow this way.

Egypt's military is taking economic as well as political control of the country.

If you were thinking of tourism in Egypt, I recommend applying personal economic sanctions by going elsewhere.

Proposing a new model of free enterprise not mainly owned by a few plutocrats.

To achieve it, we will need to defeat the plutocrats.

The UK government is not satisfied with censorship by banning some topics and viewpoints. Now it wants to pressure web sites to delete other sorts of material.

Censorship is evil.