Monday, January 30, 2012

Thomas Sowell: A Closer Look At Discrimination from Firing Line

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Charles Koch: William E. Simon Prize Acceptance Speech Video

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Charles Koch is a true american hero...I am suprised MSNBC or the New York Times have not a hold of this video yet...
Friday, January 13, 2012

Mitt Romney: How Private Equity Works

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Recently in the news Mitt Romney has been criticized for his tenure at Bain Capital. The common thing you hear is that Romney amassed great ...
Wednesday, January 11, 2012

Hostess Bankruptcy: Was CEO a Ding Dong?

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2012 seems to have started out with many bankruptcies. First, we had Kodak and now Hostess Brands is filing Chapter 11 for the second time. ...
Tuesday, January 10, 2012

Apple Steve Cook Highest Executive in 2011?

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Apparently, Tim Cook could be the highest paid person in 2011. The Associated Press is reporting that Tim Cook could stand to receive $378 m...
Monday, January 9, 2012

1980-2010 Government Spending Receipts and Outlays

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Spending data from 1981 to 2010 is now in. The data shows that the U.S. is now spending $3.45 trillion per year. To put this in perspective...

Relationship Debt and GDP Growth

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This chart is from a paper in the American Economic Review from 2010 by Reinhart and Rogoff. The study followed countries over a 200 year p...
Sunday, January 8, 2012

War on Cancer Failure

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In 1971, President Richard Nixon declared a war on cancer or what is known as the National Cancer Act of 1971. I hate when politicians say t...

Richard Rainwater: The Billionaire and His Battle

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A few weeks ago I read a story about Richard Rainwater and his battle with a potentially fatal disease. Rainwater is probably most famous fo...
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Tuesday, January 3, 2012

Airplane Safety: Safer Than Ever

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Despite what people may believe it seems that airplane travel has become very safe. For 2011, only one life was lost for every 7.1 million ...