28 March 2015

The Religious Right - Those Christians Who Understand Christianity Better Than Christ

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"I have as much authority as the pope, only fewer people believe it." - George Carlin 83% of Americans claim to be Christia...
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12 March 2015

As a Matter of Fact, This is the Spanish Inquisition (or Why Singapore and Canada are More Affluent Than the Philippines and Mexico)

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Excerpted from The Fourth Economy: Inventing Western Civilization The Spanish Inquisition Put people in a terrible position. I don’t ...
08 March 2015

Lindsey Graham Insists the Economy is No Better Than it Was at the Height of the Great Recession (The Republican Dilemma)

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Since Obama has taken office on January 20, 2009, the NASDAQ has more than tripled and the S&P 500 has more than doubled, unemployment h...
07 March 2015

350th Anniversary of Newton's Miracle Year and the Scientific Peer-Reviewed Journal

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Perhaps all we need to see a flowering of creativity is a mini-apocalypse. Not a collapse of society or bombings that destroy buildings and ...
06 March 2015

Are We On Track to Create 4 Million Jobs in 2015?

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Today's jobs report has great news and yet it'll likely be reported with lots of caveats and caution. Last year the economy cre...
24 February 2015

Jeb Bush as Republican IQ Test

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There is a very real possibility that a father and his two sons will be presidents of this great country for two full decades (George H....
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20 February 2015

Confusing STEM Education, Innovation and Entrepreneurship

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Innovation is a form of technological invention. Human genome sequencing that results from a swab from the inside of your cheek, for instanc...
30 January 2015

Why Corporations Could Get Higher Returns Than VCs

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Daniel Kahneman is the only psychology professor to have won a Nobel Prize in Economics. His studies with Adam Tversky on how people value...
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20 January 2015

Why Financial Bubbles Are Becoming More Common (and Dangerous)

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  “Between June 1998 and June 2008 the notional [1] value of outstanding over-the-counter derivatives exploded from $72 trillion to $673...
09 January 2015

This Decade's Extraordinarily Good Job Creation Performance

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December's job report completes the fifth year of this decade. So far, this has been an extraordinarily good decade. First, a simple...
22 December 2014

Why You Should Be Blown Away by Median Wage Growth of 2.1%

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Wages rose 2.1% year over year through June 2014. That's been met with a yawn but it is a phenomenal number. 2.1% doubles wages eve...
18 December 2014

Anniversary of Verdun - Not Just Worse Than Anything We've Experienced But Worse Than We Can Imagine

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Try to wrap your mind around the scale of this tragedy. 9/11 happens. 2,996 lives tragically ended on a Tuesday. The country shocked. And th...
13 December 2014

Halfway Point of the Decade that Will Transform the Middle East

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Arab Spring seems to have begun with Mohammed Bouazizi, a 26-year-old Tunisian with 6 kids. Police had confiscated his vegetable cart – his...