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27 September 2015

Why You Will Never Again Earn Interest Rates Higher Than Zero (or, why capital wants to be free in a post-information, entrepreneurial economy)

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In The Fourth Economy , I argue that capital no longer limits. We now have trillions in capital and unsurprisingly, returns to capital have ...
26 September 2015

The Republican Party Has the Same Problem as Islam

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According to a 31 August  poll from Quinnipiac  University, Only 8% of Republicans approve of the job Obama is doing as president. Only 6...
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25 September 2015

Why House Leader John Boehner Should Be Replaced by an Algorithm

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John Boehner is retiring from his job as Speaker of the House 30 October. The next day, on Halloween, he might just dress up as someone with...

State and Local Spending Finally a Boost to - Rather than a Brake on - Economy

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We are finally at the point in the recovery when spending at the state and local level can be a boon to the boom. The Commerce Departmen...
24 September 2015

Headlines I'd Like to See for Pope's Visit to US

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Pope visits White House gift shop: passes on "I Slept in the Lincoln Bedroom" t-shirt and buys Supreme Court Justice souvenir rob...
23 September 2015

Vonnegut's Rule Predicts the Political Furor Over the Pope

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The rarely seen dual pope Vonnegut once quipped, "Thanks to TV and for the convenience of TV, you can only be one of two kinds of ...
19 September 2015

The President Reminds us Where The Economy Was 7 Years Ago

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I read a wide variety of sources. Still, I don't see anyone as simply report the facts as the president. No wonder his approval ratings ...
18 September 2015

Social Inventions Determine Whether Bright, Irreverent, Charismatic Kids Become Head of Apple or Head of ISIL

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How you do in life is largely defined by a few lotteries that happen before you are conscious. We could mitigate that but it would require t...
17 September 2015

Am I the Only One Who Thought ... at the GOP debate

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Am I the only one who .... Watching the candidates parade out in their identical business suits ... thought, "You can't help bu...
16 September 2015

A Nation Prejudiced Against the South: What Ahmed Mohammed's Case Reveals About Group Psychology, Social Media and the Rush to Judgment

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A black high school freshmen named Ahmed Mohamed was arrested in Texas for bringing a clock to schoo l. Excited about the device he'd ma...
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15 September 2015

The Eventual GOP Winner Will be in Tonight's JV Debate

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In August, Republicans had so many candidates that they held two debates. The main stage had the 10 top candidates and then there was a juni...

Why We Should be Glad that Teachers are Not Treated like NFL Players

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This video is hilarious because it contrasts the way we treat NFL players with the way we treat teachers. My wife is a teacher and s...

Why Ted Cruz is Lunging Past Rand Paul to Vacant Anarchist's Slot in GOP Primary

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Ted Cruz is threatening to shut down the government unless teenagers stop having sex. In the race to the right in the GOP primary, he's ...

The Secret to Being a "Real American"

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Obama is criticizing the anti-immigrant sentiment in this country as "un-American." Fox news feigning outrage over the fact tha...
12 September 2015

One Fundamental Flaw in the Stock Market

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When you buy a stock, you are paying one price today for all of its future profits. If their sales or profit margins go up more than expecte...

Time for US Candidates to Name Their Shadow Cabinets?

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You don't exactly vote for a prime minister in the UK. You vote for the party and - of course - everyone knows that the head of that par...
11 September 2015

How to Create an Entrepreneurial Revolution - Isenberg on Entrepreneurship as Self-Expression

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Harvard Business Review's July 2010 issue featured an article by Daniel Isenberg about how to start an entrepreneurial revolution. Isen...

The Burden to "Never Forget" - The Families of the 9-11 Victims

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Joe Biden was on Colbert's new show last night and Colbert asked him about the recent death of his son, Beau Biden. Joe had the presenc...
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10 September 2015

The Truth About Addiction - Another Reminder that Context is Everything

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Everything that follows is a quote from Johann Hari writing about research by Bruce Alexander, a professor of psychology at Simon Fraser Uni...

The Camry-Effect (or why inflation is actually even lower than its already low reported rate)

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Inflation is under-reported because products are evolving faster than prices are rising. This should color the Fed's decision about rais...
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