And precisely what is this “edifice” to which MLK was referring? I would simply say trickle-down economics. Lowering the top federal tax bracket from 90% to 28%, while taxing Social Security benefits and handing out huge additional tax breaks for …
Category: Renewables – Business
Corporate Greed
I’m sure the actual reason that today’s air travel is so uncomfortable is complex, but it strikes me that there was a limit to corporate greed 50 years ago that is altogether absent from our lives today.
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Does Money Buy Happiness?
Re: The meme here, to use a term from economics, I would say that the “marginal utility” of a living wage is quite high, but it trails off after that. It’s kind of like your first sandwich when you’re hungry …
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Sugar Destroys Our Bodies, as Plastic Does Our Planet
I listened to a podcast featuring the former CEO of Pepsico, Indra Nooyi, hoping to hear her thoughts on some of her brands that are particularly potent in destroying our lives. Of course, the interviewer didn’t frame his questions so …
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Let’s Be Honest About U.S. History
It’s fine to be a conservative economist like Thomas Sowell, but it would be even better if he didn’t make gross mistakes like this. From the mid-1930s through the start of the 1980s, the U.S. public sector, with the help …
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America’s Coming “Hurricane”
Given the fragility of the world’s balance of power, anything’s possible for the U.S. and global economy. One thing that’s highly unlikely, however, is that Tucker Carlson knows anything more about it than you or I. When we come across …
Why Jesus Hasn’t Returned
Anywhere there is a buck to be made, regardless of how morally debased one has to be in order to participate in it, there will be people stooping to it. Some sell heroin; others traffic little kids into sexual slavery. …
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Wealth Inequality
From Rutherford B. Hayes, President of the United States (1877-1881): “In church it occurred to me that it is time for the public to hear that the giant evil and danger in this country, the danger which transcends all others, …
Biden and Trump on Big Oil
The facts as reported here are true, but I’m not sure Biden deserves any moral credit for what happened. If he did, he’d be pushing for things like the Carbon Fee and Dividend, a movement that would incentivize everyone at …
When It Comes to China, Let’s Be Careful What We Wish For
It’s true that China represents a threat to American hegemony on the planet. Personally, I expect all this to happen by entirely peaceful means, but the U.S. would be ill-advised to ignore China’s military buildup. In any case, here’s what …
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