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How high oil prices lead to financial collapse
Financial collapse is related to high oil prices, Tverberg writes, and also to higher costs for other resources as we approach their limits. By Gail Tverberg Resource limits are invisible,… Read more
The Hijacking of Wharton
Rajiv Malhotra – I have repeatedly criticized Western academic biases toward India in humanities departments. In contrast, I consider business schools less ideologically motivated, focused instead on imparting business skills…. Read more
Social Justice and the Economy
Glenn Ricketts – The German philosopher G. F. W. Hegel saw the French Revolution as superior to the American Revolution because it never accepted America’s lowly standard of “settling for… Read more
Let Obama’s Sequestration Happen
A first step in sobering up Washington. President Barack Obama clearly doesn’t like how the threat of sequestration, an idea he owns but now dishonestly wants to disown, is working… Read more
End the minimum wage psychosis
By Dean Kalahar The minimum wage is the perfect example of how American’s have lost contact with reality and exhibit delusional thinking. Simply because it sounds like it makes sense,… Read more
Capitalism has the power to eradicate poverty
The problem is that there is an unequal distribution of capitalism. Whole Foods CEO John Mackey delivered the opening keynote address for the International Students for Liberty Conference this weekend…. Read more
Obama needs to get his act together
On Thursday, former Bill Clinton campaign adviser and longtime CNN staple James Carville appeared on MSNBC’s “The ED Show” to sound off on President Barack Obama’s proposal to raise the… Read more
Stand and Fight
By Wayne LaPierre – Before I tell you how the NRA and our members are going to Stand And Fight politically and in the courts, let’s acknowledge that all… Read more
Searching for a Star-Spangled Minivan
Buy American’ isn’t as easy as it used to be. Then there’s also the ‘buy right-to-work state’ urge. By ABBY W. SCHACHTER When I was a child in the 1970s,… Read more
Grads Are Stuck With Their Dead-End Jobs Or Worse
The Wall Street Journal had more bad news for college-educated millennials Tuesday, reporting that even an improving economy could leave them behind or push them out of the market. The… Read more »