03 November 2014

Muslim Extremists and Why the West Needs to Start To Take Meaning Seriously

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Thanks to Thomas Jefferson, the US was founded not just with religious freedom but freedom from religion. Others wanted to have a church-mem...

Three Lies Politicians Are Telling You

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Here are three lies politicians are telling you. The Lie : I'm a successful businessman so I can be a successful politician. The Trut...
02 November 2014

How Google Creates Income Disparity (Or How Google Has Confused Their Ability to Hire Great People With the Ability to Make Employees Great)

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Jonathon Rosenberg and Eric Schmidt have just published "How Google Works." Recently Yahoo CEO and former Google employee Marissa ...
28 October 2014

From Lean Startup to Lean Schooling - What if Students Were "Graduated" Every 10 Weeks?

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One of the central ideas of the Lean Startup by Eric Ries is the idea of Minimum Viable Product, or MVP. The purpose of a MVP is to release...
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16 October 2014

A Museum of What Has Been Lost - Starting With the Story of How After the Mona Lisa Was Stolen The Lines at the Louvre Grew Longer

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The Mona Lisa was stolen in 1911. More people lined up to see the blank wall on which it had hung than had previously lined up to see da Vin...
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13 October 2014

Stupidly Predicting the Stock Market (Fools Rush in When Angels Dare to Sell)

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If you want to look foolish, predict the stock market. Given I've just tweeted a jobs report prediction (over 300k for October, to be re...
09 October 2014

The GOP's List of Spectacularly Wrong - But Sincerely Panicked - Major Predictions

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You can tell a lot about a worldview by how well it predicts. Of course worldviews are weird tools that can more readily shape us than we sh...
07 October 2014

5 Reasons Boehner's Tweet Called Our Attention to 5 Points He Couldn't Make

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Today, Boehner sent out this odd tweet, a "5 points for jobs" plan The twitterati were quick to notice that he'd left thes...
05 October 2014

It's Time for a True Patriot in the White House

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Instead of the obligatory American flag lapel, it's time for presidential candidates to show they love every state and not just the cou...
03 October 2014

The Economy May Have Hit a Tipping Point for Wage Growth

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It won't be until employees have choices about where to work that we will see wage growth, a key to progress. Ben Casselman reports at ...

Today's Jobs Report Sets a New Record for Consecutive Months of Job Creation

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Last month the economy gained 248,000 jobs but today's announcement is for 317,000 new jobs since July and August numbers were revised ...
02 October 2014

Entrepreneurship Can Be Taught - And Might Someday be Taken as Seriously as High School Football

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A new study by Kathryn Shaw  of Stanford provides data supporting the notion that entrepreneurship can be taught .  I would assume that li...
01 October 2014

In Just 2 Years the Economy Lost 8.6 Million Jobs, Erasing 8.5 Years of Job Creation. It Took Only 5.5 Yrs To Recover

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It was only six years ago that the Great Recession began in the Fall of 2008. Lest you yawn at this Friday's announcement of tying the r...
30 September 2014

“Can the U.S. economy be doing all that well if ‘Kidney’ is a common autofill?”

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Two things can be true: the economy is getting better and things are incredibly hard for some people. The social safety net has holes in it ...
29 September 2014

Sitting Still in a Plane Moving 400+ miles per Hour - Why People Are Unimpressed with Economic Progress

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Evolutionary scientist Richard Dawkins argues that there was no first human. The reason? The change in any given generation was so imperce...
27 September 2014

Sold The Horse and Bought a Car - Tijuana to San Diego Wait Times Plummet from 2 to 3 Hrs to 10 to 20 minutes

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This is huge news. It could affect San Diego and Tijuana's economies in ways that only bio-tech and Maquiladoras have. From my house t...

Kansas' Brownback About To Lose His Job As Governor Because He's Bad at Algebra

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Governor Sam Brownback of Kansas enacted a sweeping tax cut for the state. He slashed taxes for everyone, reducing middle class tax rates fr...

Using Charter Schools as Tools for Progress by Letting Them Patent New Approaches

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Pedro Noguera writes a great piece in The Nation about charter schools titled, " Why Don't We Have Real Data on Charter Schools? ...
26 September 2014

GDP Grew 4.6% in 2nd Quarter (Politicians and Media, Committed to Bad News, Look the Other Way)

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The final estimate is that the GDP grew by 4.6% in the 2nd Quarter of this year, according to today's report from the Department of Com...
24 September 2014

Pittsburgh Pirates Get Into Playoffs for One-Third of What It Cost the Dodgers

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A 3-bedroom home in Los Angeles costs $695,000. In Pittsburgh, a 3-bedroom home costs only $143,000. Given players can get a place for their...