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Voter Turnout Seems to Rise in a Divided Country

The Balancing Act: FDR vs. Dictatorship and the Power of Inclusive Policy (Or, What is Fascism?)

The Price of Gold Rises as Trust in Institutions Wanes

NO MORE ICE!

Soon to Hit 2 Million Views on R World

Ouija Board Stand at a Funeral Home

Any Hope in the Fact That MAGA Lied About Why They Supported Trump?

The Difference Between Conservatives and Fascists

Remembering Anne Frank

AE as Segue to AI

Trump Shares a Peace of His Mind

Creating a Global Trading System with Multiple Alliances

Greenland! Iceland! Not Sure What It Is or Where But We Must Have It!

Americans Mostly Uneasy About Trump's Presidency (but also frustrated, unsafe, exhausted ...)

Market Manipulation and Puzzling Political Orientation

Trump's Odd Hatred for the Great City of Minneapolis

Stock Market Day After Trump's Announcement That He's Going to War Over Greenland

Trump Daily Amps Up the Fascist Meter - Serving Subpoenas to Minnesota Governor, Attorney General and Minneapolis Mayor

Time to Invoke the 25th Amendment

Donald Trump 2026 - Like King Lear But With Nuclear Weapons

The 100 Year Gap Between the Civil War and Civil Rights - an Argument About How Culture, Entrepreneurship and Institutions Are Connected

The Difference Between a Conservative and A Fascist

A Tentative Theory About 20th Century Germany and the US and the Impact of Conscious Social Change on Entrepreneurship

Trust and Innovation - The Value of CEO Trust

Harper's Reports - 92 Percent of Investment Driven by Data Centers & How Credit Card Debt is Increasing Divorce Rates

Institutions As Enablers of Excellence

"Mixed" Reviews on Trump Coming Into His First Anniversary

Trump's Terrible Tariffs and Job Creation Rates

I've Replaced my Keyboard with an Ouija Board

2025 Job Creation Less Than 4Q of 2024

If You Were Conscripted into Public-Sector Entrepreneurship Where Would You Focus

Excerpt from Pope Leo's State of the World address

2025 Was the Slowest Rate of Job Creation Since the Great Recession (And - of course - the Year of COVID)

Michael Reagan Dies at 80

When We Began to Wear Clothes for More Than Warmth - Beginning the Move from Living in Nature to Living in Culture

Politics in a Multicultural America

Either We Become a Radically Different Country or the Republican Party Becomes Essentially Extinct for a Lifetime

A Vote Against Democracy Should Mean The End of Your Right to Vote

Monogamous Penguins

History Compresses Vast Sprawls of Time, Lives, Events and Trends

Cooperation Helps One Compete

A Cultural Contrast Between Canada and the US As Seen in Its Supreme Court

The Secret to Becoming a Billionaire

Happy new year!

Change in Value Through 2025 - the Highs (Silver) and Lows (Trump Media & Tech Stock)

The Directional Difference Between Socialists and Capitalists

I Didn't Say She Was Emotional

AI's Great - Largely Unspoken - Potential for Intellectual Matchmaking

Fortune Cookies as a Gateway

Two Amendments That Shifted Policy from A Focus on Just Capital to Capital and Labor

Mencken's Rebuttal to Thorstein Veblen's Claim of Conspicuous Consumption

If You Can't Decide on a Genre For Tonight's Entertainment ... might we suggest sports?

Proposing Cat Stevens Updates One of His Classics to "Oh Very Old!"

Don't Forget the Mary in Merry Christmas!

It is a Curious Thing to Advocate for a World You Can't Live In

YTD Returns on Various Assets Through 23 December 2025

The Miracle of Community & Culture in a World in Which We Can Distinguish Between 7 to 10 Million Different Colors

Real GDP Percent Change from Year Ago = 2.3%

7 Million Shades of Cultural Reality

Oh the Dickens You Say

Reading Minds

UM Consumer Sentiment Index at Lowest on Record (going back to 1960)

Herod's Violent Crackdown

This World, a poem

The 10 Richest Americans are Worth a Combined $2.6 Trillion

Karma of a Different Sort

Are You Closer to Bankruptcy or Billionaire?

Side Effects May Include ... What Political Parties Are Not Telling Us

Job Numbers in Trump's Economy

Frankly, I Had Higher Expectations for the West Wing Sequel

The AI Generated Soundtrack of Social Encounters

Powell Suggests Economy is Steadily Losing Jobs

Trump's Threat to A Century of Foreign Policy And Global Alignment

The Tiny Portion of Crypto Assets Used for Payments

A Christmas Poem (or something like it)

Labor Market Like a Deer in the Headlights Waiting for More Predictable Economic Policy

For Profit Media is At Odds With A Healthy Democracy

Thanksgiving 404

If I Were King

Tariffs Seem to Be Driving Layoffs

How California did - and perhaps the US will - Turned Blue

A Quarter of a Century to Recover - the 1929 Great Crash

Indecisive

Trump's Department of Labor Fabricates 2 Million New Jobs - confusing a periodic correction with the real world

Weakly Job Creation Rate This Summer

Crypto Wealth Dissolved

Job Creation Slows for 2025

Miss Information

BIG returns from TINY changes COMPOUNDING over time

What Global Consciousness Has Done Local Politics

The Lack of Civility in the Trump Administration

Trump's Presidency as Evidence of Poor Quality Civics Classes

How to be Miserable

Prayer, Politicians, and Lies

The Scale of Tragedy in WWII

Amplified Intelligence

Let Us Pretend We Are Orchestrating Them

Inflation Reporting Has Lost the Plot

The Importance of Miscalculating How Long a Project Will Take

During the Shutdown Only 0.04% of Federal Employees - Including the President and Vice President - Are Getting Paid

I love you too

LA Dodgers Become First American Team to Clinch World Series on Foreign Soil (The Past is Still Probable )

21st Century Fortunes - Give Away Now, Later, Or Plow Into Foundations?

Yesavage's Inexperience Beats Dodgers' Great Experience

Jefferson's List of Grievances in the Declaration of Independence Sound Like Trump's To Do List

Trump's Ballroom Sends a Simple Message

Canadians Take Game One of the World Series

Rule of Law - Even Presidents Are Subject to the Law

No Kings Personal Protest

Immigration OLD, NEW & NEO

The Way Shohei Ohtani Plays

A Summary of New Politics for the Next Economy

Jensen Huang on Bringing Other Companies Along

Is the Internet Shrinking Your Brain?

Reality TV and Surreal Policies

Power Over and Power To - The Distinction Between Great and Awful Institutions

Interplanetary System - A New Information-scape

Falling Off a Cliff with a Blindfold - Job Loss Blackout During Trump's Government Shutdown

Jane Goodall on Making a Difference

Donald Trump as the Last Resort

Bill Gates The Trillionaire

Trump Deploying Troops Into American Cities As Further Evidence He Doesn't Understand Specialization

Trump's Nobel Peace Prize

The Colonization of Mars and America and Travel Times

From Will Storr’s Selfie - Pruning Down the Brain's Possible Paths

A Trumped Up Charge

Jill Lepore, Changing the Constitution, and the Issues You'll Soon Be Engaged In

Outlawing Comedy (And what that tells us about the last time America was great)

Adams - No Reason to Believe That Our Founding Generation Was Better Than You Are

Jim Moore's Poem Those Others

The Development of Time Travel That Doesn't Disrupt the Development of Time Travel

Colbert, Kimmel, Trump and the Role of the Jester

A Decoder Ring for MAGA Regarding School Shootings

Last Words

Curious Exaggerations in the Socio-Economic World

Gordon S. Woods On American Chaos in the Generation After the Revolution

Even Immortal Gods Die Once their Institutions Erode

The Secret to Japan's 100,000 100 Year Olds

Stochastic Terrorism and Social Media

American Identity - and Acceptable Marriages - Now More Defined by Politics Than Religion