NOTHING has been done to fix the financial crisis. The Bush-Obama-McCain-Pelosi plan to bailout the very people who caused the crisis was passed by Congress to...
This letter to the editor in the Marshall Independent is from John Gochenouer, a Professor of Business Administration at Southwest Minnesota State University. ...
I am working on a chapter on taxes in my new book. To show you just how extreme the benefits of the Bush policies to the superrich have been, in 2004, the...
Bill great link, thanks! might send it to my uber-conservative relatives. i sent them a rant about "corporate socialism" that i wrote and of course, got Obama...
I think some of the conservative thing makes sense and it's our job to find it. I have tried to be a positive critical theorist. O.K., you realize it's crap...
Oil closed today at $77.61. It had peaked at $147.27 early this year on July 11. At that time, gas was $4.04 a gallon. Oil has decreased by 47.3%. If...
Someone said a conservative is a liberal who has been mugged. As there is no such thing as the mind, no need to go there. Understanding is funny. Who...
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Hi Bill and all. We're paying 2.90 and sinking. Prices have come down faster than they went up. The 401K's are taking another beating. Del...
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This is from the new book I am working on: The Big Picture - Recognizing the Patterns There's a story making its way around via e-mail. You're walking down...
Bill, et al, This whole debate about conservatism vs. liberalism (progressivism) is a waste of time. These labels and their associated philosophies died out ...
FYI... john Dear Friends and Colleagues: Men’s Resources International (MRI) has extended the application deadline for the position of co-executive director...
Here's a really interesting article on the money crisis. http://www.thislife.org/extras/radio/355_transcript.pdf Columbia Journalism Review had this to say...
Weber pointed out long ago the problem with the dominant scheme of american capitalism..... profit. I suggest that there are some functions sectors that must...
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Weber was wrong about the profit thing (among other things). Over the last 30 years profit has been made the "dominant scheme" of American capitalism. But...
Ken and all, Ken has just provided the proof for Weber's statement on European american (EAC) capitalism. His description of that EAC profit is organic and...
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Someone once said that the stock market is governed by two emotions -- fear and greed....
Del, Tell us about your conversations with Kenneth Boulding about profit/finance. As a humanistic economist, he must have had some interesting insights. ...
Hi, I first met Boulding in 1960 when I picked him up at the twin cities airport. Then in Ann Arbor he was a member of meeting and served on committees. Lots...
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Del, et al, Yes, "economic action" is economic action, and "non-economic action" is non-economic action. The two really are different and not at all ...
Hi, This is a creationist argument. The economy is not built. It arises out of interaction. And the economy (s) is anything but stable and predictable. ...
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Del, "The economy is not built. It arises out of interaction." Unless you mean there is magic in "It arises out of interaction," then I submit it is indeed...
I am an NBA fan. The season started Tuesday night and the Boston Celtics were given their championship rings. On them is enscribed the word: "ubuntu." The...
George W. Bush, the absolute worst environmental president in the history of the earth, has done it again. Don't be deceived by the headline of this USA Today...
I just put this together for a friend but I decided I was going to send this out to the list. (I've cited some of this stuff already but here it is in...
asking the question from an applied perspective, NOT a political one. curious what Obama did that resulted in him being elected. i think that whomever wins,...
He won for two reasons. First the clever use of the race card and second because of the use of micro sociology....called micro targeting by Rove. Micro...
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You must listen to this. David Cay Johnston speech to the Commonwealth Club, April 14, 2008 Free Lunch: How the Wealthiest People Enrich Themselves at...
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