Korea North Korean threats are back in the news lately – this time following the attack on a South Korean naval vessel that cost 46 lives. Many have noted that this…
A Tale of Two Markets
Increasingly, it is “the market” that shapes our social destiny and financial choices, but what is a market and more specifically, what is our market? An ever present concept The…
Only an educated society can be free…
Liberals and libertarians have accomplished little in America but to give liberty a bad name The paradox of freedom is simple yet profound: One individual’s freedom of action will often…
Gold is Surging Again
Was it the crazy drop in trading last week? Was it all of the talk about defaults in Europe or the actual bail out itself? Whatever it is, it is…
The Game is Changing
Politics has always been a game of consensus, and societies hold together because of some shared set of values and beliefs. Whether the uniting myths are religious, hereditary, or purely…
SEC has some crazy theory about Goldman Sachs
The SEC has released this crazy theory about a conspiracy at Goldman Sachs to defraud investors. Although technically, if they have enough evidence to win at trial, it won’t really…
Why Words Matter – Language in Modern Political Debate
Language is a social construct: words are just concepts and we hope for the sake of debate that we’re all sharing the same concept when we use the same words. …
He isn’t one of us…
One of the strangest, and perhaps most morbid, developments in American politics is the way that the usual partisan suspects have mobilized to disown the suicidal pilot in Texas. He…
America cannot blame the world it has created
It is almost inevitable, that in a time of prolonged crisis, that a nation should look beyond its own borders in search of someone to blame. For America in the…
Scott Brown Wins and Healthcare is in Limbo
Just a week or two ago, few people expected that a Republican would rise up to win election to Ted Kennedy‘s old Senate seat. Then again, it was just two…