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glen @ November 30, 2008 # One Comment
The second part is available at MPP.ORG HERE. Prohibition and Drugs by Milton Friedman From Newsweek, May 1, 1972 “The reign of tears is over. The slums will soon be only a memory. We will turn our prisons into factories and our jails into storehouses and comcribs. Men will walk upright now, women will smile, [...]
glen @ November 24, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Imagine how much money would be in the U.S. Economy if gas prices were at the current 2005 levels over the last 3 years. Almost two dollars for every gallon of gas used for the last 3 years by everyone in the country. If the U.S. uses 400 million gallons a day, then the amount [...]
glen @ November 22, 2008 # No Comment Yet
For more than three years we have been paying fuel costs more than 2 times market value, by design. After the 2002 commodity deregulation, speculators around the globe made up stories from sugar cane rot to burst oil pipelines, from Iranian threats to Russian natural gas monopolies. The entire free world has been pilfered by [...]
glen @ November 21, 2008 # No Comment Yet
We are going through yet another “recession.” There is a little known fact about recessions about what things cost before, during and after the recession takes place. While it takes time for goods, services and profits to come back from a recession, wages never recover. Wages never recovered from the last 3 recessions we have [...]
glen @ November 17, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Ever wonder if we are over medicated?
glen @ November 17, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Is there such a thing as a dangerous Economist? Check out the story of Phil Gram at The New York Times. Mr. Gramm helped lead the charge in Congress. Demanding even more freedom from regulators than the financial industry had sought, he persuaded colleagues and negotiated with senior administration officials, pushing so hard that he [...]
glen @ November 14, 2008 # No Comment Yet
I was reading over some comments from a Cosmic Log story and what a quick sociological survey that can be.. It’s math folks. Far beyond most human beings brain power. So leave it too the experts. The Space Industry has provided the knowledge and innovations only seen in times of war. Just the engineering advances [...]
glen @ November 12, 2008 # No Comment Yet
A great read from the Huffington post. The obvious intention here is to cobble together an abuse of power meme against President-elect Obama, despite President Bush and Vice President Cheney having, you know, spent the last eight years consolidating executive power, authorizing torture, suspending habeas corpus, illegally invading sovereign nations, ignoring congressional investigations and eavesdropping [...]
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