- Putting a Trillion Into Perspective
The is our take on Charles Hugh Smith’s (oftwominds.com) perpective on how to visualize the magnitude of a trillion vs a billion vs a million. It is a very important thing to get our heads around given that budget deficits liabilities of our country and others are measured in trillions of dollars!
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- Should We Question Fair Trade?
The other day my wife and I had the morning off together – a rare occurrence. To celebrate we decided to go to a different Coffee Bar from our usual haunt, one located on the far more affluent side of town. The place has a new owner, and since she took it over has a ...
- Will Bitcoin Boom Spell Environmental Gloom?
For the longest time, Bitcoin, the Internet’s largest cryptocurrency, slowly puttered along as essentially a libertarian thought experiment. That is, “why rely on the American Dollar, which is backed by a federal reserve, when a community can collectively create a separate currency?” Years ago, Bitcoin users were lucky to purchase pizza with their independent coin, ...
- Washington is The New Versailles
In the dead of night, democracy died with a whimper. Withered husks of humanity, driven only by the demands of their monolithic donor base, voted to gut the middle and working class in order to transfer over a trillion dollars to the richest percentage of our society. These wolves, cloaked in the rhetoric of populism, ...
- SEPTEMBER 1, 1939
This poem was written by W.H. Auden in 1939, a little over 77 years ago. It was time not so different than our own; rising nationalism, economic stagnation (don’t be fooled by the buoyant stock market), and the rattle of sabres across a multipolar world. The Spanish Civil War started 3 years prior in 1936. ...
Leviathan and Its Enemies is a book about power: who has it, how they got it, how they keep it, and whether it can be taken from them.
Today we are giving our take on the Biden administration’s announcement that it will be raising tariffs on a host of Chinese-made products. Given they are calling for a 100% tariff on electric vehicles, we ...
On August 24th, the Department of Justice announced it was suing Elon Musk’s "Space Exploration Technologies Corporation (SpaceX) for discriminating against asylees and refugees in its hiring practices." The news took ...
Given the numerous attempts to pack immigration provisions into current spending bills, there’s probably no better time to talk about the real meaning of the Statue of Liberty. The Statue of Liberty has long been a ...