A Capital Idea Attention Millennials: do you need some financial advice about how much to spend on college or how much to take out on loans or how to best pay off your loans? Do you need some financial advice about what career path to take or where to live that has good job opportunities […]
A Challenge to Millennials: Recreate a World Where Participation Has Meaning There are a scant few who would defend that money works. If you are one of the lucky ones for whom it is working, than you would also be one of those who are quietly doing the defending. For the vast majority though, money […]
The Great Shift Away From Economic Justice “The day of reckoning is here, we’re at the end of an era where we have Democratic spending policies and Republican tax policies. The result has been huge deficits and mounting debt burdens. It doesn’t work”- David Walker, former U.S. comptroller general. Rome wasn’t built in a day, […]
Is Money at a Tipping Point? As the Obama administration announces a policy to conditionally not deport those under thirty who came to the U.S. as children and the U.S. Supreme Court will be reviewing the controversial Arizona law on immigration, we see emotional rhetoric on each side of the fence, so to speak. Most […]
It’s in your food supply. It affects your health. The Fed Chairman does it. Robin Hood did it. Dying people must deal with it. The 1% get their share but so do single Moms. You can find it in merit scholarships. It was behind the Cold War. It pits the old against the young and […]
A Story of How to Optimize Children and Increase Profits I have no evidence for my conspiracy theory that my children are out to get me. There seems to be something dastardly in their eye on the oft chance that they look at me, which is rare these days. What would cause them to avoid […]
In part I, how culture uses its large institutions may be blocking the changes needed to sustain the very institutions that we need. We need these institutions to not only flourish but for our survival. We used the examples of college admissions, collegiate athletics, commodities trading, and political elections. Can we change the story of […]
My daughter is about to graduate from college and my son is about to graduate from high school. As many parents, while I am extremely proud, however, I worry about the opportunities that await them. When I think about how the world will change for them, my twisted mind seems to wrestle with college graduation […]
You say you want money, but you’re the one who’s a little stingy, Cuz we not only want you We need Leonardo Da Vinci. – Strange job interview Advice for recent college graduates, college students, and job seekers What was I skilled to do, what was there out there to do, and what did […]
Barry is one of those friends who we picked up later in life and we got to know because he is a parent of a friend of one of your children. Barry is a “poach,” that is Parent Of A Child Hibernate or so he thinks. This means that he worries his kid is a […]
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