All these past months I have been on a tirade against the Keystone XL pipeline partly because the dang thing would run thousands of miles across the country…risking any number of fragile local eco-systems…with the resulting fuels exported around the world from the gulf refineries…with only a small group of Americans actually benefiting…with the major [...]
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Comedian Lee Camp asks a good question: “Who is this economic recover really benefiting?” Since the recession, the federal deficit has been topping One Trillion Dollars every year. But just three months ago the Congressional Budget Office predicted that the 2013 deficit would be around $845 billion…well that was then, this is now and the CBO is now projecting the 2013 deficit at $642 billion…just 4% of the gross [...]
Markets erode moral values The Skills Most Entrepreneurs Lack – Bill J. Bonnstetter – Harvard Business Review
When Capitalism Consumed the Internet Jaron Lanier: The Internet destroyed the middle class – Salon.com
Horton’s Who: The Unborn? – ABC News Yertle the Turtle (ebook) – YouTube
[...] Do you have friends or relations who work full time and earn $11.53 per hour? Do you know people who work really hard full time and make less than $11.53 per hour? Do you feel that’s a reasonable full time hourly rate? Is it livable rate? Now, why am I picking on $11.53 per hour? [...]
The economic discipline’s all in a buzz over the recent debunking of the Reinhardt/Rogoff study and with good reason. The study’s conclusions form the entire foundation for Conservative austerity and recessional spending (more appropriately, the lack thereof). Shall we not forget the “serious” budgetier Paul Ryan’s insistence of fiscal crisis proven without doubt by [...] If you haven’t read Joshua Kurlantzick’s editorial highlighting the China Model, it is well worth a look: Why the ‘China Model’ Isn’t Going Away – Joshua Kurlantzick – The Atlantic Admittedly, I have not read his book from which the editorial is derived. Having said that, I point to the following passage: “Many Southeast Asian [...] |
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