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 [...]
Knowledgeable Pinheads and Sneaky Pickpockets make the Economic Universe Let’s go back to the beginning…the very beginning. All matter was gold until the great explosion sent gold pieces hurling into deep space. When the stars and planets formed though they were not just made of gold and land but combined with labor and capital. 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 [...]
Exercise: What have you done in your life that was done for money but felt wrong since you believed that you didn’t have a better choice? As each person ages, we must decide at what point do we apply the label “old” to ourselves. Like becoming rich, there is not one point when you are [...]
I dream worlds. They are other worlds which I figure must be in alien realms or distant lands. I used to dream about relationships which contained the characters in my life like one would view a play at a theater. No more, I only see some bizarre world where I can’t explain what happens or [...]
The other night, I was out with my son in the Mid-Wilshire area of Los Angeles. He was also going out of town that evening so we had to arrange a rendezvous with his friends who he was going to be driving with. I thought to myself that in my day, we did not have [...]
This was a sign from the Occupation movement in Los Angeles. The top of the sign reads “15 years ago we had” (Photo by Harlin Kahn) When the Arab Spring populist movement came about, it was not only about changing the type of government but also about jobs. This translates to a demand for a [...]
Europe is on the brink. They’re goin’ down. No wait. They can contain it. We’re okay for now. Gee, it’s only Greece. No wait. It may spread to Spain and Italy. Everyone watches and tries to gage where this is all going. The markets are pacified one day and panicked the next. What everyone knows [...]
It’s official. The financial markets have been diagnosed with bipolar disease. Wildly down one day and then up the next (or even during the same day). Everyone wants to know whether consumers will have the confidence to keep buying anything and everything they can find. One day it seems we will keep buying and buying [...]
The Story of I, We, and IT continued The history of homo-economicus has always been about a battle between the I and the We. For each side, the IT has always been about equality. The I’s want equality of prospects for individuals to have the freedom to pursue the goals and motivations without government getting [...]
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