On a recent trip to the bay area I encountered two distinctly different liberal ideologies. One is the “smug” approach, popularized in an episode of South Park, that became emblematic of the area and of elitist liberals in general. This approach, in my experience, predominates in Berkeley… Read full post »

In Adam Smith’s On the Wealth of Nation’s, Smith lays out a framework for creating free markets. Our free market system aspires to fulfill this framework but it is undermined by profit seeking firms. If one applies the strategic analysis tools that firms seeking to maximize profits employ… Read full post »

Eight Centuries of Financial Folly looks at the history of financial collapse from around the world. A least common denominator that emerges from the history of financial collapse is out of control debt, with an important distinction. The act of taking on debt in and of itself is actually a very… Read full post »

Since Mitt Romeny now finds himself in the difficult position of campaigning against his own health care plan it is doubfult you will hear him speak on the subject again. Here is Mitt in his own words on majors points of his Massachusetts plan which the ACA is the direct descendant… Read full post »

In making the news rounds yesterday I came across a piece by Jonathan Chait in New York Magazine. I am a serial offender of sharing links especially through my twitter account but this piece deserved more attention then a 140 character bump. In Chait’s piece he poses the question as such,… Read full post »

In making the news rounds yesterday I came across a piece by Jonathan Chait in New York Magazine. I am a serial offender of sharing links especially through my twitter account but this piece deserved more attention then a 140 character bump. In Chait’s piece he poses the question as such,… Read full post »

Depending on who you ask the Supreme Court's decision upholding the Constitutionality of the Affordable Care act was a victory for everyone. In reality it is a victory for everyone as rising health care costs and and aging population made action necessary at the juncture, but that's not the victory a… Read full post »

In order to strike down the Affordable Care act conservative justices will have to ignore not only precedent but decisions they have penned personally. It came to light very early on in the discussion that the most controversial point of the ACA, the individual mandate, is not without longstanding pr… Read full post »

As an any early adopter of virtually every social network created I have seen one time revolutionary and addicting technologies cast aside time and time again. Facebook these days looks a lot more like the next Friendster than the next Google and their time of relevance may be coming to an… Read full post »

We find ourselves on the cusp of Huxley's Brave New World as our use of technology makes us chronically entertained, mindlessly consume, perpetuates self-delusion, and drives a wedge between happiness and truth. Huxley's words seem prophetic in a time where we see the merging of government/… Read full post »

In my morning rounds though the headlines I came across a blog entry from Mark Cuban comparing the impending student loan debt crisis to the mortgage crisis. I agree with his piece. I argued on the same grounds in a similar piece on my blog. Here is my piece as it appeared… Read full post »

The Price of Civilization

Here are my highlights and thoughts on Jeffery Sachs The Price of Civilization which may suffice as a sort of cliff notes and hopefully prove relavant to the pressing issues of the day.

On Wealth and Poverty

• I have no quarrel with wealth per se. My quarrel is/
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