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Mar.31.2013 Occupy Your Income Once again we saw a trend that indicates the Occupy movement is correct. Once again, must people remain oblivious. The Occupy Wall Street and collateral grass roots organizations occupy to protest greed. They're also protesting double standards, expressing frustration about how the system is...	Jan.16.2013 What Americans Can Learn from the Vietnamese This is something I wrote (gulp!) more than 20 years ago. I'm re-posting it here because I think it is instructive regarding the financial problems we are facing here in the US 21 years later. When I visited Vietnam in 1990, the country was suffering from sporadic bouts of...
Jun.04.2011 Mitt Romney And The Era Of Jimmy Carter Stagflation, the worst of both worlds (anemic economic growth and high inflation) brings back less than fond memories of the 1970's, along with the misery index, which is calculated adding the inflation rate to the unemployment rate. Until the 1960's, Keynesian economists had thought that those...	Apr.02.2010 Bubble, Bubble, who has the Bubble ... now? Bubbles - Image Credit: ventrella.com Bubble, Bubble, who has the Bubble ... now? Our cultural lexicon has been inundated with the concept and effects of the "Bubble" these last few years. A Bubble is an artificially modified sustaining of an activity which has been created to...
Jul.29.2009 The Economics of Entropy A faultline runs through the middle of the modern world's imagination of its own economic life -- the gap between the real world, where entropy rules, and the world of money, where interest keeps on stacking up to infinity. Crossing that gap requires a recognition of one of the least popular...	Jul.14.2009 Real Estate Has the entire world gone mad? How is it that you can actually enter into an agreement with someone for a purchase price and then an arbitrary entity can come along and tell you that the price you agreed upon is ridiculous? I sold my house. We went back and forth with an offer, a counter offer, a...
Mar.22.2009 Money: The (Un)Necessary Evil (published Dec 31, 2008) I realized a frightening thing yesterday as I was riding home. My father and I were passing the Turkey Creek area when it hit me that nearly every single car was on the road because of money, one way or another. They were driving either to spend money, make money, or save money. I immediately felt...	Mar.11.2009 Executive Branch Incompetence Crisis - Obama, Delivering Obama Barack Obama administration - This map of Barack Obama administration relationships is interactive. Ctrl-Click to activate (new window), once at the mapsite, click on names to explore and expand. (Requires Java.) - Image Credit: muckety.com Executive Branch Incompetence Crisis - Obama, Delivering...
Dec.07.2008 The Tutorial 'W' Missed... ...to cite but one! 'I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up...