I've written before about the survival instinct being the fundamental driving force behind the capitalist economic system, increasing & maintining wealth, and hence the resulting advantage obtained by capital over labor. The following linked article restates my thesis using the "insurance" ...
The real issue is whether to take actions that substantially & significantly mitigate / reduce anthropomorphic causes of global warming now or not take such actions now --- perhaps taking actions later as in making adaptations, but not by addressing significant reductions in man-made causation yet.
Is the following a good corollary?...
As I've said many times before, in my own case, my successes (& hence also failures) are all a matter of having had a long string of luck.... chance events in which I just happened to randomly be in the right place at the right time (for either eventuality... good luck having been dominant). Skills & personality traits ...
S&P 500 Price 1995 - Present.
Looks like a new, unsustainable bubble is in the works to me. Unsustainable dot-com bubble in 2000,the next unsustainable one was the housing bubble in 2007, and looks like another unsustainable one in the works to peak sometime later this year or early 2013. Note that the dot-com bubble ...
Romney's going after the far right wingers with Ryan ... duh!. This ought to stimulate the centrists and liberals to get out the vote though. My bet is that this was on net a bad move for the GOP presidential nominee. A desperate last ditch effort. Romney's just a bought and paid ...
Looks like my other note today on Ryan is pretty much the same take that Reich has on Ryan (here)... he even uses the same terms I used.
More than any other politician today, Paul Ryan exemplifies the social Darwinism at the core of today?s Republican Party: Reward the rich, penalize the poor, let everyone else fend for themselves. Dog ...
Rasmussen polls heen and continue to be highly biased to the conservative candidates. This is not just my observation (from the 2008 pre-election polls, but by others and the data comparing polls with one another in the same regions at the same time). Electoral votes needed to win = 270. See both electoral maps ...
Listening to 60 Minutes interview tonight with Romney & Ryan tonight I was struck by how often the phrase "...back on the right track." was used.
Romney described Ryan as a person who "wants to get the country back on the right track." Romney said this several times (I didn't count, but more than 3 times). e.g. ...
The blogs and talking heads are focused on fiscal conservancy issues that Ryan is supposedly now bringing to the table as the vp, and on the riskiness of the pick for GOP, etc. This was also my initial take. But these focal points all presume that the Ryan for vp choice is all about the GOP winning the ...
I was curious about how the US aging population change affects future medicare patients... those < 55 especially, which includes our offspring who are now in their 30's and approaching 40. Basically, for those now or soon to be age 55 (i.e. within 10 years of medicare eligibility) are will increase eligibility&...
Writers from the Middle Ages and modern politicians alike have based their arguments on the idea that a trauma of the magnitude of rape can shut down the body's reproductive system.
Representative Todd Akin, the Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate in Missouri, spurred new outrage on the subject when he told a St. Louis television ...
Summers' op-ed op-ed of Aug 19 in the WP "The reality of trying to shrink shrink government" provides 3 basic reasons why gov't will not shrink. These are, without my providing the details:
- Demographics of aging
- Federal debt even under the most
The so called "Beveridge curve" is a time series measure of the relationship of job openings rate to unemployment rate. .... with job openings rate on the vertical axis and unemployment rate on the horizontal. In general it's supposed to (purports to) show a relatively consistant negative correlation of ...
I've described and shown the divergence of median family income growth from GDP growth beginning in the late 1970's in several posts before. I also attempted to discern the underlying reason for the divergence since no such divergence had occurred before --- i.e. median family incomes grew in lock step with the growth of GDP for ...
http://www.taxjustice.net/cms/upload/pdf/Sheppard_1208_Transfer_Pricing.pdf
A July 30, 2012 report on injustice of the International Transfer Pricing mechanism which underpins the US's foreign income tax policy. It turns out though that the International Transfer Pricing mechanism and rules a from a Treaty initially ...
I read this article about the Pennsylvania court decision upholding Pennsylvania's Voter ID law and I was both troubled by it, and then became depressed. The article describes not only the specifics of the court's reasoning in upholding that law, but several other cases and implications of legal ...
Making babies is a fundamental biological function whether humans, or bees, or seedlings from plants... the sole purpose of which is to preserve survival of a species which is subject to a biologically limited life-span... or better stated a limit to living cell life span. This is why rocks don't have a reproduction ...
The paper's theme is that innovation as it relates to productivity growth and GDP growth peaked circa 1970 and has been on a continuous decline since ----- due to the lack of recent innovation's effects on productivity gains.&...
While it's interesting to see the national popular vote polling results develop for the presidential election, it matters not at all in the real world since it's only the electoral college votes that count.
Electoral votes come from each state and are proportioned by each State's population... so the states with the greatest ...
The nation will change dramatically if the right wing succeeds in electing Romney-Ryan. It will
- regress dramatically (aka "taking America back") to the level of the pre-Great Depression era... encroaching on if not virtually eliminating anti-trust laws;
- resurrect state's rights by circumventing constitutional
Read this article -- very interestig questions on how to make democracy and corporations mutually inclusive. The article's title is Can Corportions be Made to Fit Democracy Theory & Vision? My answer is that they cannot... not with the current chartered definition of Corporation, since by defintion they are entites for ...