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David Schor on HET Ep.39

Assistant Attorney General for the State of Oregon, candidate for Mayor of Portland, David Schor is today’s guest on the Horizon at End Times podcast. Today, I’m gladly, willingly putting forward my [Read On…]

Furrows of Worry

Illustration above by Keylay Tukor How economically motivated individuals trade Truth for belief. Home is where the heart is, so you’re never really homeless. This cliche might be mustered up by some [Read On…]

Everybody Deserves Gentrification

Housing isn’t any kind of crisis right now, it’s wealth disparity Your house, your tent in the city, your apartment in the sky, your manor and estate on the hill, your cottage [Read On…]

WHY AMERICA NEEDS FEWER JOBS

Family Values and the Workforce Participation Rate This morning, I read about Jeb Bush and his recent comment that, “workforce participation has to rise from its all-time modern lows.” So in order [Read On…]

Weeding the People is Tricky Business

Oregon’s first legal cannabis trade show exemplified the frustrations of regulated freedom. Weed The People was an overwhelming success. In fact and in literal terms, overwhelming indeed and financially successful too. Perhaps [Read On…]

On Being in Economics

Featured Image by Jax Ko A Philosophical Foundation for the Critique of Capitalism Everything in the world that is bought and sold using currency can be defined by its market in the [Read On…]

3 Reforms to Make Corporate Personhood Okay

The fact is and shall continue that corporations are lawful people. I don’t agree with it, but that is how it is and there is not a lot of momentum to change [Read On…]

The Cognitive Dissonance of Midterms 2014

Midterms 2014 point to America’s cognitive dissonance. We statistically hate congress more than Obama, yet the congress that has been selected leads right back to the policies that we voted against this [Read On…]

TIME BOMB LAWMAKER

How Conservatives Put Half a Million Non-Profits Out of Business John Boehner’s legacy will amount largely as being President Obama’s toughest adversary. The looming threat of John Boehner’s time bomb haunts the [Read On…]