The meme here speaks to what has become a defining element of American society, i.e., facts have ceased to matter. Here we have a scenario in which essentially every metric surrounding the economy is extremely positive; inflation, job growth, real …
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Understanding the U.S. Consumer Economy
If you’d like some insight into what’s happening in the airline industry and how it affects its customers, I recommend the video linked here. Please note that the trends that former labor secretary Robert Reich identifies here cross over into …
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The Union of Concerned Scientists on Hydrogen
The Union of Concerned Scientists writes: Will hydrogen be a climate solution? Not if fossil fuel interests get their way. With billions of taxpayer dollars set to flow, the Biden administration must set rigorous hydrogen standards to defend against a …
Issues Associated with Reprocessing Asphalt Shingles
Sky Quarry asks prospective investors: Did you know millions of tons of shingles end up in landfills every year? It’s an environmental problem. But we have a solution! At Sky Quarry, we get paid to collect and dispose of asphalt …
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Restructuring the Edifice
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 …
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 …
