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Category Archives: Economics
Thoughts of Employment Testing and Liability
Recently, Yaron Brook published interesting commentary about the Aunt Becky college admissions scandal. He shared an anecdote about a conversation with company executives about why they don’t test job candidates in order to qualify them for employment. Here is Brook’s … Continue reading
Posted in Congress, Economics, Political Discussions, The Courts
Tagged Aunt Becky, Certification, College, EEOC
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The Objectivist Conference (OCON) and Ideas for Living Life on Earth
In Ayn Rand’s novel Atlas Shrugged, the world’s hidden producers gathered for one month each summer and in part they traded the intellectual products that they had produced during the prior year. Similarly, Objectivists (those who study and apply Ayn … Continue reading
Posted in Economics, History, Political Discussions
Tagged Amesh Adalja, Andrew Berstein, Andrew Lewis, Atheism, Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand, Capitalism, Elan Journo, Eric Daniels, Gregory Salmieri, health care, Jihad, laissez-faire capitalism, objective law, Objectivism, OCON, patents, Peter Schwartz, Rituparna Basu, Robert Mayhew, Tara Smith, vaccination
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CalPERS Warns Against Investing in California
CalPERS, the California Public Employee’s Retirement System, has big bucks from California taxpayers to invest in support of the promises that California politicians have made to public employee unions. Asset International’s Chief Investment Officer reports that CalPERS has only 8.9% … Continue reading
Posted in Economics
Tagged California, CalPERS, economic regulation, pensions, public employee pensions, public employee unions
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Open Letter to Freddie Mac’s Paige Wisdom
Recently, I have been doing some reading on risk management related to public policy. Not too surprising given my recent posts that provide evidence that government control does not mean zero risk, but often higher risk. One piece that I … Continue reading
Posted in Economics
Tagged Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, housing bubble, Paige Wisdom, risk management
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6 Causes of India’s Mega-Blackout, Lessons for US
At the end of July 2012, India experienced an electrical blackout that affected more than half of that country. This event raised serious concerns about India’s ability to sustain its economic growth. Given the rhetorical attacks against capitalism and selfishness … Continue reading
Posted in Economics
Tagged blackout, economic regulation, electricity, German, India, Japan, M. Northrup Buechner, Objective Economics
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