Tag Archives: Joseph Schumpeter

sign of the times

Posted on November 3, 2012 by Dave

The Sign Museum in Ohio as sign of the times….The love of looking back but an equal fascination with what Joseph Schumpeter called the creative destruction of capitalism. And if there is anything Americans dislike, its the status-quo, albeit the … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged American Sign Museum Cincinnati, Barack Obama 2012, ed koch, Jeremy Bird Obama, Joe Scarborough Fox, Joseph Schumpeter, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Michael Lewis Obama's Way, Mitt Romney 2012, Nate Silver, Nate Silver pollster, Paul Krugman, Winslow Homer | Leave a comment

kick sand in their faces

Posted on May 11, 2012 by Dave

Synthetic credit. Trading a black box. Small is beautiful? Hardly when it comes to banking. In light of JP Morgan’s announced “surprise $2Billion profit bust; soaked and also synthetic red ink, people are naturally worried about contagion and another bank … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Ben Aronson, Bruno Iskill, David Teniers, david teniers the younger, David Tenniers, Donald Trump, Eric Fischl, George Grosz, jamie dimon, joseph heath rebel sell, Joseph Schumpeter, JP Morgan bank, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Mark Carney Bank of Canada, Mike Mayo CLSA, Mitt Romney 2012, volcker rule, Walter Benjamin, will hay ask a policeman | Leave a comment

bank heist: meltdown on the Mississippi

Posted on March 31, 2012 by Dave

It is really a case of the greater fool hypothesis. That is, no matter how high the price of something gets whipped up in speculative frenzy, there are always others who are willing to pay for it. The Mississippi Bubble … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Francois Boucher, francois boucher paintings, Greater fool hypothesis, James Turk, John Kenneth Gailbraith, John Law banking and finance, John Law The Mississippi Bubble, John Law The System, Joseph Schumpeter, Lady Catherine Senor, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, max keiser, Philippe d'Orleans | Leave a comment

school’s out: very blue notes

Posted on March 16, 2012 by Dave

Its always been acknowledged that there are intrinsic qualities to the study of music. But to go to school and make a career of it has always been a questionable decision. The precarity of employment juxtaposed with the liberty of … Continue reading →

Posted in Shake Your Hips | Tagged ash sloan, Donald Kuspit, Jacques-Louis David, Joseph Schumpeter, lol creme, madame pickwick art blog, Maimonides, steven lipson, The Producers Music Group, trevor horn | Leave a comment

sour grapes

Posted on March 8, 2012 by Dave

There is a tendency to romanticize the past; to look back to an earlier epoch in America and the elusive “kindler, gentler America” that is referred to in such reverential tones. Truth is, the past was not so idyllic though … Continue reading →

Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word | Tagged Henry Fonda, john myles the grapes of wrath, John Steinbeck, Joseph Schumpeter, Lyle Boren, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, madame pickwick art supplies, Rand Paul, Ron Paul, shirley temple, Steinbeck The Grapes of Wrath | Leave a comment

safe harbor for captain broke

Posted on January 30, 2012 by Dave

Mitt Romney under siege for not having the common touch. For not paying sufficient taxes. For not appearing to have any interest in the poor and their sort. There is a tug of war between what economist Schumpeter termed the … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Ben Shahn, Jack Levine, jack levine art, Joseph Schumpeter, Mitt Romney, mitt romney bain capital, mitt romney taxes, Oscar Wilde, oscar wilde socialism, Ron English, ron english fat tony, sam gompers | Leave a comment

the too real to be true deal

Posted on January 18, 2012 by Dave

We seem to be on the verge of a new era of populism, a search for someone to rise up on behalf of the little guy and gal like- Obama was rhetorically pining to do before getting knock-kneed- and defying … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Andrew Potter, bob hepburn, Gov. Rick Perry, harry truman turnip day, herman cain, joe klein, john huntsman, john mcain straight talk express, joseph heath, Joseph Schumpeter, Lionel Trilling, Marcel Duchamp, Oprah Winfrey, sarah palin moose hunting, Stephen Harper, Vladimir Putin | Leave a comment

coz andy warhol sez

Posted on December 30, 2011 by Dave

Are free market solutions the answer to public policy problems? A very divisive question to be sure. Much appears to depend on the degree of income disparity society is willing to tolerate, the level of corporate welfare taxpayers are willing … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Andy Warhol, Damien Hirst, emmet cole, Joseph Schumpeter, Marcel Duchamp, Mike Kelley, Milos Forman, Noam Chomsky, paul mccarthy, Slavoj Zizek, Theodor Adorno, tipper gore, vaclav havel, vaclav klaus, Vincent Van Gogh | Leave a comment

degenerate art : fear of the everyday hucksters

Posted on November 27, 2011 by Dave

Signs of pretense. Pretend art where the sentiments are an elaborate fake far removed from genuine emotion. Something like what Freud called the joke in art in his study of Michelangelo’s Moses but now on a grand, industrial scale of … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged albert speer, Andy Warhol, Bruce Nauman, dan graham art, daniel boorstin, Edvard Munch, Erich Fromm, gitta sereny, Guy Debord, henri Lefebvre, jay a. clarke, Jeff Koons, Joseph Schumpeter, lynn h. nicholas, Marcel Duchamp, Piet Mondrian, Theodor Adorno, Vanessa Beecroft, wilson bryan key, YSL Mondrian dresses | Leave a comment

muckrakers and culture stakers

Posted on November 14, 2011 by Dave

The pop culture world. We just have to accept it until it runs its course. And the cycle could be very long until it unravels, like a balance sheet depression or a life long illness or addiction that may take … Continue reading →