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PopCap: Big Brother Runs Amok for…Nada?
(Friday’s Populist Capitalist Blog Post) National security! Terrorist threats! These have been Washington’s mantra for close to 8 years as our civil liberties have been…
July 17, 2009
Hurrah for Pigovian Taxes!
What is a Pigovian tax? Good question. Thought you’d never ask! A Pigovian tax is a tax on any thing, any activity, or any product…
July 9, 2009
Online Degrees: For Real?
How does learning occur? How do you know that learning has occurred? What about knowledge? How is knowledge transferred? How are skills acquired? What about…
July 8, 2009
Read The Footnotes: Jim Rogers
Jim Rogers is a successful author and investment guru from the old school. The “best advice” he ever received was to “read everything… (if) you…
July 7, 2009
Do You Want to Live Forever?
Percentage of people in the 17 countries surveyed who say they want to live forever: Do you want to live forever? As long as I…
June 29, 2009
“The Long and Winding Road”
Steve Ballmer has been the CEO of Microsoft since 2000 and by his own admission he is a “chop, chop, chop, chop, chop” (yes, that’s…
June 25, 2009
Self Trust
I’ve been listening in the car to a CD of Stephen M. R. Covey’s book, “The Speed of Trust.” Its essence is that things work…
June 16, 2009
Idling Away Our Future
Section 4-08, Subsection P of the New York City traffic code prohibits engine idling for more than three minutes. Engine idling, obviously, significantly pollutes our…
June 15, 2009
“It is only the memory of poverty…”
“It is only the memory of poverty that creates the social discipline necessary for prosperity. Once that is forgotten, the seeds of decay begin to…
June 3, 2009
“Large Scale Waiting”
I’m reading Eckhart Tolle’s “The Power of Now” (sorry it took me so long to get to it, Oprah!) and learning how to be more…
May 21, 2009
The Most Important Variable
How long would you wait for a treat? Researchers put four-year-old children, one at a time, in a small room with a treat (a toy,…
May 18, 2009