Forbes is a business magazine, and I write a lot about democracy, storytelling in politics, culture, activism, and any number of other non-business issues. But I don’t feel like an outsider here. I think I’m actually very pro-business, just maybe in a slightly different way than you might think. I believe, for instance, that a […]
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A brief note – my broad sketch for an ideal society is something like this: A market free from the many mangled rules and regulations that pollute the American economy to the detriment of innovators and start-ups and to the benefit of the entrenched status quo. This is not to say that all regulations are […]
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Aaron Carroll has an excellent piece up over at CNN on the truly startling, truly saddening facts about child poverty in America. Even though poverty is defined very strictly in this country – a single mom with one kid has to make less than $15,030 to be considered impoverished – a striking number of children […]
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Andy Kroll has some startling – and deeply troubling – statistics on the actual rate of unemployment in America. My takeaway is basically that Bruce Bartlett is right. What we need right now, in the immediate term, is a series of massive public works projects. Kevin Drum wants $1 trillion in infrastructure spending over five […]
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