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R World (Ron Davison muses aloud)

29 June 2017

This is What a Virtual Coup Looks

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The GOP has taken over the federal government and could keep it through 2032. In 2010, the GOP targeted and won key elections in order to ...
26 June 2017

Minimum Wage

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I believe in a minimum wage. Companies adapt to regulation in the same way that they adapt to market competition. If a community insists tha...
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23 June 2017

Out of the Multitude

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Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself, I am large, I contain multitudes. - Walt Whitman Everyone is a multitude. ...
12 June 2017

How Gaming Is Shaping a New Worldview

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Mary Meeker delivered her annual Internet report Sunday . One of the points she made was about gaming. Entrepreneurs are often fans of ga...
10 June 2017

The Biggest Danger of the GOP - Or What The Comey Hearing Drowned Out

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Thursday, the House GOP passed a bill to repeal Dodd-Frank. Friday, the NASDAQ fell nearly 2%. Meanwhile, the world fixated on a UK election...
09 June 2017

The Real Failing of Modern Politics

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Yesterday's UK election brought home what is for me the major failing of modern politics. There was little question that the biggest win...
02 June 2017

Job Growth During the Trump Administration and Beyond

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In the last year, the number employed has gone up 1.8 million but the number in the labor force has gone up only 1.1 million. Because the n...
31 May 2017

The Simple Solution to the US Trade Deficit with Germany

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If you spend more each month than you make, you will run a personal deficit. If a country buys more than it sells, it will run a trade def...
28 May 2017

Prophets Who Create By Reforming

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Well, it’s certainly true that all great religions deal with the same conflicts of politics and violence, and the struggle to reconcile wi...

Magic Math in Trump's Budget: How an Imaginary $2 Trillion Gets Spent Twice

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Trump's new budget plan forecast $2 trillion in additional revenues because of economic growth and then simultaneously applied that $2 t...

Thomas More's Utopia - How Poverty Makes for Bad Government

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A century ago, Thomas More published Utopia. More was beheaded by Henry VIII when he refused to break with Rome and pledge allegiance to Hen...
27 May 2017

How Real Estate Has Distorted Trump's View of Economics

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There is never just one economy. One person experiences the pain of a shrinking industry and another the exhilaration of a rapidly expanding...
04 May 2017

The Curious Solipsism of Donald Trump

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From Wikipedia Solipsism  ( i / ˈ s ɒ l ᵻ p s ɪ z əm / ; from  Latin   solus , meaning 'alone', and  ipse , meaning 'self')...
03 May 2017

Where Economic and Psychological Progress are at Odds (a partial explanation of how obviously bad policies can make for good politics)

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Trump listens to his gut. While he may not be self-made man, his facts are, and he shows a disinterest in sustained thinking or nuanced tho...
27 April 2017

Adam Smith on What Disturbs the Peace of Society

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The great source of both the misery and disorders of human life, seems to arise from over-rating the difference between one permanent situat...
20 April 2017

Gays, Chechnya and Accepting Reality

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Gay men are being rounded up in Chechnya for harassment, arrest, torture, detention and even death. The Kremlin has said that there is no re...
17 April 2017

A Root of Evil

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I wonder if one root of evil isn't as simple as believing that our own lives don't make a difference. Once you believe that, it does...

Why Democracies Never Move as Fast as Business, Science, Technology or Culture

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Politics is likely to progress at a glacial pace compared to every other important way that the modern world is defined and created. Archi...
10 April 2017

What a Manager Should Know: Deming's Four Elements of Profound Knowledge

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Deming argued that there are four elements of profound knowledge that define a what managers should know. 1. Appreciation for a system ...
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