by Henry Oliner | Dec 31, 2011 | Financial, Politics
The outcome of the 2008 election centered around the financial collapse that hit just months before the vote. Even the most committed capitalists were taken by surprise at what seemed like a significant failure of capitalism. Outrage was magnified as taxpayer...
by Henry Oliner | Dec 30, 2011 | Uncategorized
A Part of the Truth Can Be More Misleading than All of a Lie Philosophers have long debated the intersections of religion and science. While religion and science may not mix well, they both mix poorly with politics. Prinicples can be an important guiding light. They...
by Henry Oliner | Dec 30, 2011 | Politics
In Thomas Sowell’s collection, The Thomas Sowell Reader he offers an interesting idea in the chapter , ‘Reflections on Term Limits’. Pay Congressmen $1,000,000 a year. No benefits, no retirement pension. The biggest problems with the current system, in Sowell’s...
by Henry Oliner | Dec 29, 2011 | Politics, Taxes
From The Atlantic by Derek Thomson, The Most Important Graphs from 2011, 12/21/11 This graph shows how the richest 1% have take a larger share of the economy in the last 35 years: … or does it? This graph does consider the effect after taxes and transfer...
by Henry Oliner | Dec 28, 2011 | Economics, Health Care, Politics
Andrew Puzder writes Job Creation Is Price for New U.S. Health Law in Bloomberg, 12/26/11: Excerpt: Our company, CKE Restaurants Inc., employs about 21,000 people (our franchisees employ 49,000 more) in Carl’s Jr. and Hardee’s restaurants. For months, we have been...
