China realizes that fossil fuels are a technology that has seen it’s time and yet the U.S. Congress keeps focusing on fixing highways rather than fixing climate change. The U.S. still thinks that the market will fix all our problems so green companies and alternative fuels will establish themselves if there are demands for it […]
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 […]
The Individual is dead. Top money was paid to put out the mother of all hits. I kinda liked you too. Why did it happen? Should we hire a detective to find out why you are dead? It might make as much sense as you performing an autopsy on yourself. Time of death: thirty years […]
Only You Can Save Us from Catastrophe Perhaps you have heard about Moral Mondays (MM). The folks in North Carolina take Monday as a day to restore fairness in government and social justice. Now that these activists have begun to stimulate our consciousness into action, it is time to add another day to the social […]
Your Agenda Here The social media website TweetieBird (a thinly disguised pseudo-corporation) combined with ALEC, The American Legislative Exacerbation Council (a thinly disguised 501 organization), is sponsoring a nationwide drawing. The lucky winner will be allowed to insert up to 140 characters, and only 140 characters, into any legislative bill of their choice. The […]
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 […]
I was once a young man. I not only suffered from the petulance of youth but at the same time pictured the possibility of an ideal world in which I could personally make a difference. I became disheartened though when I found myself living paycheck to paycheck and every dollar that came in was a […]
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, […]
(continued from Planes, Trains, Automobiles, and Welfare States) The question of when an individual should be protected from a risk, of course, comes down to economics. It is obvious to most of us now that paying for someone’s food by giving out food stamps or paying for social security and Medicare when we are all […]
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 […]
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