Archive for the ‘ViewPoints’ Category
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The other night I bit the bullet and listened to my first presidential primary debate for the upcoming election. I was not impressed not just with the debate but also with the ubiquitous spin and pundit analysis filling the airways and the internet afterward. I watched the debate and don't need someone else telling me what to think. I'll make up my own mind, thank you.
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Worried about the national debt? You should be but that isn't the fundamental problem. The debt is only a symptom of a much larger problem. I touched on the fundamental problems in earlier posts (http://getoddnews.com/tag/economics/ and http://getoddnews.com/tag/overpopulation/). The latest nail in these economic follies is provided by some hard data at http://prl.aps.org/pdf/PRL/v105/i19/e198701 which shows that as globalization increases economic stability decreases !!!!
This is another hard empirical economic data point that spells bad news (more...)
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Egypt, a cradle of civilization with a rich and storied intellectual and cultural heritage, is in convulsion. A civilization once so successful and powerful that it has endured through eons has been reduced by, well we'll explore how later, has been reduced to a poverty stricken subsistence filled with turmoil, intrigue, intolerance, and envy but while predicting the immediate outcome of the current maelstrom is dicey at best the ultimate result is obvious.
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BOOK REVIEW
Author: F.A. Hayek
Publisher: The University of Chicago PressI have heard about this book for a long time and was more than curious about it. Surrounded by controversy it was difficult to separate fact from fiction by reading reviews of the book. In fact in the reviews I read about this book two things became immediately apparent:
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Blind irrational overwhelming unreasoning rage striking without warning. Sometimes amusing in a perverse sort of way but often causing not just havoc but, on occasion, death. Unfortunately plagues of anger and violence continue spreading unchecked across the globe creating an epidemic of unprecedented proportions.
I'm not talking about outrage or legitimate anger. I'm talking about some serious contagions gradually infecting all the world's various cultures be they religious, political, economic or even philosophical in nature. The fundamental question is; What is the cause and how do we combat or cope with this pestilence?
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It's a perilous (and time consuming) odyssey one undertakes to publish a book as I am learning. I enter this arena because I wrote a book on economics. The latest result of the mental therapy instigated by my daughter to keep me from turning into a mental vegetable. The book is called Dominance Economic Principles and I'm including a preview here as well as a brief account of my current status chronicling this journey. First off here is the PREVIEW:
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EAN-13: 9781452802183.
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Once again we hear the hackneyed and ubiquitous rationale “too big to fail” as governments bailout yet another irresponsible enterprise! This time it's a country, Greece. Looming on the horizon are Spain, Ireland, and California. Who knows maybe the entire economic system is threatened! When you think critically about the situation then several embarrassing questions immediately arise:
- Who's paying for all these these bailouts?
- How did we get in this situation?
- More importantly what can be done to fix things?
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When you stop to think about it the concept of nothing or rather nothingness is truly a mind boggling conception. Most people equate the idea of nothing with empty and that is certainly one valid historical meaning but nothingness is much more (or perhaps I should say much less) than empty. In fact the word empty is meaningless where nothingness is involved. Nothingness means read more about nothing
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Yup. A trillion dollars here and a trillion dollars there; first thing you know we'll be talking about real money. (more...)
