Do We Have A Crisis?
- Category: Economic Conditions
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That's it. It's over. You know it, we know it, everybody knows it. The financial world it's crashing down like a pile of dominoes. This is the big one. What we have always been expecting. All the signs are in there, the writing is on the wall, everybody is saying it, nothing is getting better, OMG!
Really?
Not the clue.
According to the World Bankthe "perfect storm" is coming, and…
Fairness Is Asymmetric
- Category: Regulations
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How many times have you heard the words "this is fair" or "it is only fair" or any other variation of these words. In general terms these words do not bother us. However, there's one occasion when these words become deeply insulting. This is when people, most people, use them to refer to something that the government did to somebody. Typically, these words are used in reference to taxes, or…
Sex Slaves….Mmmmmmmm
- Category: Church & State
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Every friggin time we think we are done with ISIS or ISIL or whatever they call themselves this weekend, we are forced to turn around an publish an article. Over the last few days a document has been widely circulated on the Internet (yes, with capital "I" as a sign of respect). The document carries the unappealing title of "ISIL COMMITTEE OF RESEARCH AND FATWAS - FATWAS No. 61, 62,…
Pause… And Think!
- Category: War
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"... there's trouble in the World. So they called us. And we're going over there... bringing the most lethal killing machine ever devised. We're capable of launching more firepower... than has ever been released in the history of war. For one purpose alone: To keep our country safe. We constitute the front line... and the last line of defense."
Yes. We borrowed those words from the movie Crimson Tide.…
Soft Kitty, Hard Cash
- Category: Intellectual Property
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The news have come out that the alleged owners of the copyright to the lullaby "Soft Kitty" that has been used several times in the TV show "Big Bang Theory", have sued CBS, Warner Brothers and other producers. It would seem that Edith Newlin published the lyrics in 1937 in a book which was registered with the Copyright Office in the same year. The copyright was later on renewed in…
Our Financial Leaders, Ladies And Gentleman
- Category: Banks & Banking
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We have been told ad-nauseum, that our future is "safe" in the hands of experts. People with the skills, knowhow, dedication and will to "manage" our economy "for the greater good". No organization epitomizes this "need" for management more than the International Monetary Fund(IMF). This is so because the IMF is typically the lender of last resort for all countries and in wielding such power they get to decide the…
Total Country Cost Of Ownership Redoux
- Category: Socialism
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Yesterday we published our famous-to-be TCCOindex. This index attempts to quantify (within our limited, limited means) what does it actually mean to so-call "own" a country. In other words, we, the people, are supposedly the owners of the country we live in. We have so-called "rights", we have a so-called "government" and we have so-called "benefits". Fine. But however appealing and interesting this may seem, one question lingers in the…
Special Project - Total Country Cost Of Ownership
- Category: Socialism
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Today we are releasing yet another ground breaking project. Its name is the Total Country Cost Of Ownership (TCCO). This index attempts to quantify what is the real cost of having a government and receiving "free" goods and services from it. Specifically, it measures how much of your productive life we spent working for the government instead for us.
As usual, it is linked in our Special Projectspage at the site,…
Root Cause Analysis In China
- Category: Asia
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The three worst man-made accidents on the mainland this year all took place in its largest cities, where planners struggle to accommodate an expanding middle class and waves of migrant workers. This is how the article "After Shenzhen landslide, residents of China’s big cities wonder when disaster will strike next" that appeared yesterday in the South China Morning Post begins. So don't tell us that we are exaggerating!
And why are…
