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  • Economics, A Rant in F Major

    Economics, A Rant in F Major

    Posted on August 31, 2010 | No Comments
    Isn’t money sitting around in giant piles indistinguishable from firewood? Money at rest is money wasted. If you aren’t growing, you’re failing, right? Isn’t that business? So now this guy is telling me that, in order to make rich people richer, I have to BRIBE them with tax cuts and deregulation first? Go fu...

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  • The Evolution of Ideas

    The Evolution of Ideas

    Posted on November 11, 2009 | No Comments
    When an idea becomes sacred, it forces a resistance to innovation. New ideas are shunned. Flexibility and adaptation are abandoned. Change is not merely discouraged, it is abhorred, and those who would bring change are often ridiculed, sometimes persecuted and occasionally executed for their beliefs.

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