Showing posts with label economy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label economy. Show all posts
Sunday, October 20, 2024

Trump or Harris for Lower Prices?

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Recently, I have seen lawn signs go up saying, “Trump - low prices, Harris - high prices.”  Is that a reasonable prediction for the next 4 y...
Sunday, August 18, 2019

Making Trade and the Global Economy Work for the American Worker

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The global economy is a fact and there is no avoiding it.   Trade is also a necessary fact of economic life. The question is, ...
Saturday, October 27, 2018

Bring Sanity and Social Purpose to the Lottery

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Lotteries were begun to meet the funding needs of state governments, mainly in the area of education.   That narrow focus, meeting...
Thursday, June 14, 2018

The Concept of “Working Poor” Should Be Unacceptable

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First what does it mean to be poor?   It turns out that’s not as simple to answer as one might think. Doing research I found t...
Saturday, June 4, 2016

White Working Class - The Republican Base?

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While reading a recent New Yorker , I came upon a sentence that made me stop in disbelief.  “The base of the [Republican] Party, the middle...
Saturday, February 13, 2016

Understanding Why America Is No Longer, and Perhaps Can Never Be, As Great As It Was

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People either go on about how great America is, or they lament that America is not as great as it used to be.   In the first case, people t...
Friday, November 13, 2015

Healing Our Nation, Healing Ourselves

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In my recent post, “The Problem Isn’t Capitalism, It’s Our Society,” (October 8, 2015), I noted that the social problems in all modern soci...