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Business vs. Progress
Do we have access to the latest and greatest goods and services? Or do unseen powers delay delivery?
November 21, 2021
Jeffery J. Smith
Activist
Oil Beneath $0, Exxon Dropped From the Dow
Less Wealthy Oil Companies Signals Breathing Room For the Environment, Yet Can Rentiers Replace Oil Rent With Other Rents?
August 31, 2020
Jeffery J. Smith
Activist
Five Forms of Unearned Corporate Net Income
People are usually unaware about insider looting and unearned corporate profits, which belongs to the public at large rather than being privatized.
April 14, 2019
Rick DiMare
Attorney
Dropped by Gatekeepers
An investigator takes two steps forward, one back, then steps where?
January 8, 2017
Jeffery J. Smith
Activist
Another Job Killer: Section 385
Yet another regulation is being proposed, to treat effects rather than cure the cause of capital flight.
September 4, 2016
Fred Foldvary, Ph.D.
Economist
Review of Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, by John Perkins
Conspiracy arguments are always suspect, since they typically have plausibility but no compelling proof.
June 18, 2016
H. William Batt, Ph.D.
Economist
Utilities Monopolize Land
The prices you pay go up whenever monopolies get their way. Will prices still rise if technology does in monopolies?
May 22, 2016
Jeffery J. Smith
Activist
Removing Damages
Once we heal Earth, we not only heal ourselves but also enrich whoever ends up with the fatter rents for healed land.
May 17, 2016
Jeffery J. Smith
Activist
Make Prices Reward “Green” Choices
Target the most sensitive body part—the wallet. Make prices tell the truth. Earth as object of speculation? Not with geonomics.
April 11, 2016
Jeffery J. Smith
Activist
Corporations Aren’t Dysfunctional—the System Is
If you prevent corporations from taking from the commons, their purpose becomes re-aligned with the good of humankind. That’s where the work has to be done.
July 3, 2015
Martin Adams
Author, Educator
Capitalism: a brilliantly confused story
To understand the economic policies of governments, and the main cause of social problems, grasp this idea: The main purpose of government is to serve the big landed interests.
October 19, 2009
Fred Foldvary, Ph.D.
Economist
Pope Benedict XVI says private enterprise should correct government failure
The pope calls on private enterprise to have a goal of contributing to the well being of society.
July 14, 2009
Fred Foldvary, Ph.D.
Economist
Redistribution: an Unnecessary Evil
Redistribution would not be necessary if we had the proper initial distribution of income in the first place.
June 22, 2009
Fred Foldvary, Ph.D.
Economist
US GDP First Quarter 2009
The good news and the bad news
May 4, 2009
Fred Foldvary, Ph.D.
Economist
Anti-Stimulus for Las Vegas
President Obama has stated that companies should not have events in Las Vegas “on the taxpayer’s dime.”
February 16, 2009
Fred Foldvary, Ph.D.
Economist
How Ron Paul could Win the Presidency in 2008
Ron Paul could win the Republican primary election for president and then the general election in 2008 if he adopts a winning policy for the environment
December 1, 2008
Fred Foldvary, Ph.D.
Economist
Why the Crash of 2008 was not a Market Failure
Government policy can be either market enhancing, such as by penalizing theft, or market hampering, such as by taxing human action.
October 1, 2008
Fred Foldvary, Ph.D.
Economist
Whole Phooey on Antimonopoly Action
The federal government has initiated an anti-trust action against the Whole Foods grocery company to prevent it from merging with Wild Oats.
June 1, 2007
Fred Foldvary, Ph.D.
Economist
Corruption in Tapping the Oil Rent
In the US, the Minerals Management Service has been lax in tapping the oil rent
December 1, 2006
Fred Foldvary, Ph.D.
Economist
Government Financing of Political Campaigns
The corrupting influence of money in politics is widely deplored, and some reformers are seeking the superficial remedy, government financing of political campaigns
October 1, 2006
Fred Foldvary, Ph.D.
Economist
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