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on healthcare
What is it about public debates? For some reason (and I do not think I am alone in this), the longer our great nation ponders over any given topic, the more I feel I possess the right to impart some kind of judgment on it. I do not think this has anything to do with [...]
Posted in economics, politics Also tagged health care, obama, republicans, roosevelt, tax cuts, world war ii Leave a comment
wrapping paper in the street
The bonus season’s not even started, but at Goldman and JPM, you can hear the 30-something suits licking their chops all the way out in Albuquerque. Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan today posted incredible multi-billion dollar profits, and we outsiders are left with little to do besides scratch our heads in wonder. Even though the [...]
Posted in economics, new circuits, politics Also tagged economy, fed, finance, goldman Leave a comment
bastille day
Many people think that freedom and liberty are the bedrocks of our national ideology. Bastille Day and Independence Day give us time to remember the sacrifices of those before us made to secure the political autonomy we enjoy every day.
I’d like to call this the positive conception of freedom. Freedom, in this understanding, is something [...]
quotes to make your skin tingle
Leaving things to the Government, like leaving them to Providence, is synonymous with caring nothing about them, and accepting their results, when disagreeable, as visitations of Nature. With the exception, therefore, of a few studious men who take an intellectual interest in speculation for its own sake, the intelligence and sentiments of the whole people [...]
speculative realism