Category: Non-Fiction
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Yahoo and Google: Democratic Responsibilities of Corporations
Overview: China is renowned for keeping its citizens in the dark. They censor their television shows and ads. Now time travel, homosexuality, and luxurious lifestyle programs are banned from Chinese television (Time.com). They sensor Internet chat rooms to deter the conversations from issues like politics “towards [issues] such as which celebrities make the best role models.”…
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Who’s got the power?
When interest rates go up, and they will, the 50% increase across the board will topple markets, namely bond markets. Today’s interest rates are unprecedented. The lowest possible bound for an interest rate USED to be 0%. In finance terms, we call it the ZLB or the zero lower bound. Today bond yields in Germany…
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Bud Light sucks…
Fun fact: This is what happens when you Google, “what is American beer?” “Light beer, which was introduced on a large scale by Miller Brewing Company in the early 1970s, is a beer made with reduced alcohol and carbohydrate content, and has grown to eclipse many of the original pale lager brands in sales. Bud…
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Sick of the RNC
Sick of the RNC yet? Enough of the political mumbo jumbo. Here’s some stuff you might already know, but haven’t seen the data. The last row of the following table shows GDP per Capita growth of Sweden, UK, Germany, Greece, Spain, and Italy relative to the United States. Over the time period, German…
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Does Communism Cause Cancer?
Provocative subject, so let me clarify. How are smoking habits today associated with who we sided with in World War Two? Further, how are our smoking habits associated with the GDP of our respective countries? Walking around San Francisco, you can’t go a block downtown without getting smoke blown into your face, and cigarettes are…
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Walnut IRA
In 10 years, about 18.1% of the U.S. population will be over 65. In 15 years, almost 20% of our population will be of retirement age. You might be asking yourself, “How are we going to pay for all these damn old people?” Social security hasn’t exactly been getting good press in recent years; “Social…
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Vices
I recently quit chewing tobacco, and, as many former nicotine addicts know, your brain does this crazy thing where we try to rationalize our use of the substance. I would say to myself, “Well, everyone has a vice, right? Whether it’s caffeine, food, booze, wasting time on Instagram, etc…. You name it and I guarantee…
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