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Category Archives: Economics
Democrats’ Claim Check on the Lives of Student Loan Borrowers
I was reminded this morning that I left the student loan industry 12 years ago immediately before the financial collapse related to Fannie and Freddie. I choose based on the consequences of statutory changes by Pelosi after her elevation to … Continue reading
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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Selfish Citizenship 