30 May 2015

Why Capitalism Might Yet Topple Democracy (It's Not How You Think)

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In just the last decade, you can walk into frozen yogurt shop and make a dessert that has exactly the mix of nuts and berries and candies ...
24 May 2015

Betting Against the Euro Zone

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About a dozen friends sign a pact. They are going to become better people. They debate a few variables and finally agree to the same workout...
22 May 2015

A Few Economic Metrics (as the Nation Seriously Considers Hiring a Third Bush for President)

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17 May 2015

Personalized DNA Analysis Will Eventually Be Something You Can't Live Without

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Personalized DNA analysis reminds me of computers in the early 1980s. In 1983, fresh out of university, I managed a ComputerLand store. P...
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14 May 2015

Forecasting 2nd Stage of Recovery - After 1/2 Decade of Job Creation We Will Have a 1/2 Decade of Wage Growth

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Through April, the American economy has been creating jobs (11 million) for 55 straight months.This is a record for uninterrupted job growth...
22 April 2015

$2 Billion for Campaigning May Sound Like a Lot But It's a Trivial Sum

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I recently heard that Jeb Bush and Hillary Clinton will probably spend a billion each for their presidential campaigns. This seemed to the c...
14 April 2015

How Those Wacky Social Conservatives Sound to Me

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Rudolf Diesel, inventor of the Diesel engine "That was never the intention of the founding fathers," some social conservative ...
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12 April 2015

The British as Social Inventors (or, the policies that could make the UK wildly prosperous again)

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The UK will elect its next prime minister in just a few weeks, on 7 May. As an American, I envy the fact that British politics is so mu...
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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