Conservatives like this metaphor, because they don’t have a problem ignoring U.S. history and the unprecedentedly high standard of living that Americans had after World War II, when the tax rates for corporations and wealthy individuals were 90%. Until Reagan …
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Elon Musk, Eternally in the Media
Lots of gratifying and actually amusing things in the news, none the least of which is the utter mess Elon Musk is making of Twitter. I have to say that essentially everything I’ve predicted about Musk has been wrong. Make …
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The Terrifying World of Elon Musk
I’m amazed to find legitimate, intelligent environmental activists support Elon Musk because of the role he’s playing in forwarding the cause of electric transportation. Let’s imagine a world where both the energy and the transportation sectors have made great progress …
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Economic Challenges to Today’s World
Record corporate profits, inflation, sub-living wages, COVID, declining educational standards, jobs moving overseas, virtually no unemployment, and the rise in automation replacing human labor. These are some of the macro-economic factors that make life so tough for us today. Then …
Examining Our Working Lives
Here’s what a professor of theology at Georgetown University told me when I was young, when I happened to have asked him about his career, and his life more generally: Most people work 50 weeks of the year doing something …
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The Challenge in Closing the Gap Between Rich and Poor
Since my college days almost 50 years ago, I’ve believed that the United States is experiencing the unsustainable end game of unbridled capitalism, i.e., that we were seeing winners win and the losers lose. I graduated in 1977, just before …
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Margaret Thatcher Got This Completely Wrong
What Margaret Thatcher said here is completely untrue. There are numerous government investments that add jobs (thus adding to the tax base) and make our country more competitive on the global stage. This why it’s such a disaster that the United …
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Understanding U.S. Energy Independence
From senior energy analyst Robert Rapier: Every time someone says “Trump made us energy independent, and we lost that under Biden” — I ask them to back that up. The most important thing is to get them to define energy …
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Making Life Difficult
It seems like we’ve forgotten what makes life pleasant for the common American. Between the end of World War II and the election of Ronald Reagan in 1980, taxes on corporations and the ultra rich were very high, and those …
The Only Real Focus of Government Spending Is Explosives
This has been a feature of life in the U.S. for as long as I can remember, but admittedly, it’s getting worse. If you want money for destroying people and their property, no one questions it for a second. Try …
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