Life is a State of Mind » Economics http://blog.scottnolan.org ideas, thoughts, rants Mon, 06 Feb 2012 15:14:50 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Occupy movement is a cause, or an effect? http://blog.scottnolan.org/2011/11/10/occupy-movement-is-a-cause-or-an-effect/ http://blog.scottnolan.org/2011/11/10/occupy-movement-is-a-cause-or-an-effect/#comments Thu, 10 Nov 2011 13:22:12 +0000 snolan http://blog.scottnolan.org/?p=2326 Wow, very thoughtful and though-provoking essay by professor Robert Jenson; worth reading and thinking about…. Occupy movement is more than just a flash in the pan.

aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2011/11/201111191022862285.html

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They have not even tried and been vetoed or rejected in the Senate… they simply have not tried. Clearly Republicans, at least the ones in office now, are not interested in ending the recession nor putting Americans back to work.

Will Americans try a new congress in the next election?

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]]> http://blog.scottnolan.org/2011/04/15/why-has-no-one-on-wall-street-gone-to-jail-yet/feed/ 0 Just the Simple Truth http://blog.scottnolan.org/2011/04/15/just-the-simple-truth/ http://blog.scottnolan.org/2011/04/15/just-the-simple-truth/#comments Fri, 15 Apr 2011 11:33:01 +0000 snolan http://blog.scottnolan.org/?p=2175 The truth is neither harsh nor forgiving; it simply is. It probably seems quite harsh to those who refuse to live with it or observe it though; I remain unsympathetic.

Just the Simple Truth about President Obama’s speech on April 13th, 2011.

]]> http://blog.scottnolan.org/2011/04/15/just-the-simple-truth/feed/ 0 Should corporations be considered individuals by the law? http://blog.scottnolan.org/2010/11/08/should-corporations-be-considered-individuals-by-the-law/ http://blog.scottnolan.org/2010/11/08/should-corporations-be-considered-individuals-by-the-law/#comments Mon, 08 Nov 2010 21:40:04 +0000 snolan http://blog.scottnolan.org/?p=1983 There are many reasons I do not think that corporations should have the same rights as individual persons. Corporations are effectively not subject to the effects of aging, they can have virtually unlimited resources, they dodge personal responsibility by selectively using scape-goats/layoffs/contractors, and they can effectively dodge taxation by getting subsidies or tax-breaks that ordinary individuals cannot get.

Bypassing US Taxes is an interesting article about how they are abusing international trade laws to bypass paying taxes. While I may sympathize, I am also angered, as that tax burden is transferred to you and me when it is not paid by large corporations who have all the benefits, but none of the liabilities nor responsibilities of individual people.

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I think this is an interesting read about how the public can so easily be misled by lies, stated confidently… and left unchallenged because calling the liars out is beneath those who should be calling them out.

]]> http://blog.scottnolan.org/2010/11/08/lies-and-misleading-the-voters/feed/ 0 This is one reason Fox is propaganda http://blog.scottnolan.org/2010/06/30/this-is-one-reason-fox-is-propaganda/ http://blog.scottnolan.org/2010/06/30/this-is-one-reason-fox-is-propaganda/#comments Wed, 30 Jun 2010 12:27:25 +0000 snolan http://blog.scottnolan.org/?p=1804 The deliberate misrepresentation of data to manipulate it’s viewers:

Media Matters “Worst chart I’ve seen all day”

The Republicans have Fox and the Soviets have Pravda.

]]> http://blog.scottnolan.org/2010/06/30/this-is-one-reason-fox-is-propaganda/feed/ 0 Excellent article in Rolling Stone http://blog.scottnolan.org/2010/06/11/excellent-article-in-rolling-stone/ http://blog.scottnolan.org/2010/06/11/excellent-article-in-rolling-stone/#comments Fri, 11 Jun 2010 15:51:22 +0000 snolan http://blog.scottnolan.org/?p=1773 This may be the best bit of journalism publish in the United States in two decades… excellent and valid criticism of our president and the corrupting power of giant multi-national corporations.

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/17390/111965?RS_show_page=0

Hat tip to “The Richmonder” on Blue Virginia for pointing the excellent article out.

http://www.bluevirginia.us/diary/844/required-reading-the-spill-the-scandal-and-the-president

]]> http://blog.scottnolan.org/2010/06/11/excellent-article-in-rolling-stone/feed/ 0 Tax bills in 2009 at lowest level since 1950 http://blog.scottnolan.org/2010/05/12/tax-bills-in-2009-at-lowest-level-since-1950/ http://blog.scottnolan.org/2010/05/12/tax-bills-in-2009-at-lowest-level-since-1950/#comments Wed, 12 May 2010 11:14:10 +0000 snolan http://blog.scottnolan.org/?p=1738 What are all those “Tea Party” folks up in arms about again?

http://www.usatoday.com/money/perfi/taxes/2010-05-10-taxes_N.htm

Yet more proof that we are about as far away from socialism as we’ve ever been, which is a sad thing, as socialism is literally caring for those around you.

So I guess the search for what is really making all the “Tea Party” crowd upset continues as their claims continue to be proved dishonest or disingenuous one by one.

]]> http://blog.scottnolan.org/2010/05/12/tax-bills-in-2009-at-lowest-level-since-1950/feed/ 0 How integrated is the greater Washington area? http://blog.scottnolan.org/2010/01/10/how-integrated-is-the-greater-washington-area/ http://blog.scottnolan.org/2010/01/10/how-integrated-is-the-greater-washington-area/#comments Sun, 10 Jan 2010 13:35:44 +0000 snolan http://blog.scottnolan.org/?p=1647 One of the things I like best about the greater Washington area is how integrated we are… For years I have been comparing our local stomping grounds favorably to places like Chicago (a lovely city) where the blocks are clearly black or white and even those blocks are clearly one ethnic group or another. Perhaps I was wrong:

The river between Milk and Tyler post on the excellent Greater Greater Washington blog alludes to racial divide based on Netflix rental queue data as revealed in the New York Times interactive map.

So I guess we are not as diversified and integrated as I thought, which saddens me a little, at least for those using Netflix to rent movies. Hell, I had not even heard of nearly half the movies on the NY Times article.

Of course, there is the purely amusing question of why the heck is “Yes Man” so popular at Andrews and Ft Meade?

There are other cities on the NY Times interactive site, enjoy.

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