Today let’s go big picture and look at some pressing global problems and my conceptually simple solution to them: As Nobel Prize laureate Joseph Stiglitz points out, in the U.S. and worldwide, we face an excess of productive capacity that presses wages downward everywhere. Lower wages means that owners and investors keep more of the […]
A lot of wishful thinking goes on in articles that purport to be news. I’m talking about the kind of article that speculates that a trend is forming that will be positive to the interests of the U.S. But when you read the article carefully, you see that it’s built on a series of conjectures […]
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The people who make advertising decisions for the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) must either have a sick sense of humor or an unconscious desire to admit that they’ve twisted the purpose of the food pyramid from helping people make good eating decisions to supporting food manufacturers. The USDA is now running a series […]
Which publications would be considered more representative of the so-called liberal and leftwing leanings of the mainstream news media than New Yorker and the New York Times? Yet both persist in giving enormous coverage to the Tea Party, much more than this small band of political entrepreneurs deserves compared to other third parties that have […]
National Public Radio has hopped on the media bandwagon of advocates of just walking away from a house that’s underwater, i.e., worth less than the mortgage. NPR aired a story this morning that justified and gave credence to the view that the one-third of all home owners across the country who owe more on the […]
Read More… from NPR the latest media to get on the walkaway bandwagon.
Parade Magazine’s new chef, Bobby Flay, from the Food Channel, is thin and buff, very photogenic. He must not be eating the Superbowl party menu he is proposing in last Sunday’s Parade, which as a Sunday magazine supplement is delivered to more people than any other publication in the United States. In Bobby’s first monthly […]
Business Week’s Venessa Wong has written an article about a new study that shows that Texas leads in number of high-growth cities, those places that are seeing population increases and rising prices for houses. Here are the leading high-growth areas across the country, according to this new piece of research: Braselton, Georgia (Atlanta suburb) Atascocita, […]
Someone in the Obama administration has leaked the main findings of a government ethics report about the Bush II attorneys who wrote and published the memos that in various places stated the legal justification behind the following views: 1) waterboarding is not torture; 2) that the legal definition of tortured permitted a number of techniques […]
The New York Times continued its campaign to get the average Jane-and-Joe to adopt the questionable ethics of investment or mortgage bankers this weekend with an article by Professor Richard Thaler of the University of Chicago wondering why more of the millions of homeowners who owe more on their homes than the places are worth […]
Every media outlet has its share of advertising for shady products that don’t perform as promised. Colon treatments, male enhancement treatments, hair loss treatments, speculative investments, Internet business ventures that don’t require you to work, companies claiming to help people get out of debt, lump-sum structured settlement companies, companies that sell you incorporation materials or […]
Read More… from My small study may demonstrate that ads for shady products dominate talk radio.