Richard Layard What is progress? The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development has been asking this question for some time and the current crisis makes it imperative to find an […]
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We each view reality from our own unique perspective, only a community of minds can show us the truth.
Advancing the Cause of Science in America
It is wonderful to have a President who is sensitive to the value of science to human welfare. Reposted from the New York Times. President Barack Obama Today, with the […]
Continue readingWhat’s Wrong with America?
Deepak Chopra When Michael Steele, the hapless chairman of the Republican Party, lost his bearings and called Rush Limbaugh’s style ugly and incendiary, everyone knew it was the truth. But […]
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Phil Harris While there has never been more food around, modern production is not really a ‘success’ story. In the face of a long term decline in fossil energy, there […]
Continue readingHow $30,000 Can be More Than $300,000
Nate Hagens In interviews, speeches and in writing on this blog, I often point out that financial capital is just a marker for real capital, which is comprised of natural, […]
Continue readingToward a Bill of Rights for All Humanity
Timothy Wilken A long time reader, Dexter Graphic, recently forwarded me an article about Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s proposal for a Second Bill of Rights, which was initially suggested during his […]
Continue readingThe Myth of the Fuel Efficient Car
Recently, I have been telling people that we don’t need to rescue the auto industry, just those humans working for the auto industry. It would cost a lot less to […]
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Banking on the Brink
Paul Krugman Comrade Greenspan wants us to seize the economy’s commanding heights. O.K., not exactly. What Alan Greenspan, the former Federal Reserve chairman—and a staunch defender of free markets—actually said […]
Continue readingHumanity’s Final Exam
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Reposted from What I Saw in America. Patrick Deneen In last week’s New York Times Magazine, the Time’s economics writer David Leonhardt laid out one of the more succinct cases […]
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