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The Green New Deal: How much will it cost? And, my top 5 reasons to like it.

Before sharing my top 5 reasons to like the Green New Deal, I want to discuss the cost of this proposal. There’s seems to be some confusion, not sure why … The exact cost of the ‘Green New Deal’ is known. It’s not a mystery. It’s not complicated, no need for higher order differential equations, […]

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Big government must lord over private business, else society would collapse … or would it? (Big Government by Mark T on flickr)

What’s so bad about government control of business?

What’s so bad about government control of business? Glad you asked. Good question. How do I answer in less than five hundred pages? Going to be tricky, but I’ll give it a go. By the way, government control of business has a name. That’s right, there’s a name for it, it’s already been labeled. It’s […]

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Why does the government want to kill jobs?

The government claims they want to create jobs.  They scream it out from the mountain tops, “We want more jobs!”  They even get up on their tippy toes, hold the bullhorn up high, and bellow out, “We not only want jobs, but we want high paying jobs!” So, if this is what the government says, […]

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But, what if house prices keep dropping?

BUT, WHAT IF HOUSE PRICES KEEP DROPPING? Here’s a BUT question I encountered a lot while searching for property in Florida in late 2010.  Seemed like the conventional thinking was property prices were going to drop to zero.  I remember a particular encounter when this question popped up.  It was during a bank visit to […]

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“… find something else to produce.”

” … find something else to produce.”  That’s the message from an article in the International Business Times about the United Kingdom (UK) steel industry. And, the message is ridiculous; makes no sense; shows the author hasn’t thought things through; doesn’t have a true understanding of the problem. Why? Well, I think it’s best explained […]

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