Want to create anarchy? Get rid of minimum wage laws. Pretend it is to create more jobs for youth when you’re real reason is to create more profit for businessmen. On February 10th, 2011, Stan sent me an article with the following excerpt about minimum wage laws: …Labor laws [minimum wage] bribe the generation […]
The majority of society lives in economic denial, sustained by sifting positive facts from the news that will support their desired outlook. On February 9th, Stan sent me the following quote through which I saw a lot of economic denial: The stock market is rising because the stock market is rising. That’s all we […]
Sustainable economics starts at home … in that it starts with homes. It stands to reason that, if the economy can only grow through housing expansion, we will someday have nowhere left to stand. On February 9th, 2011, I wrote to my friend Stan about sustainable economics: The entire government is failing to learn. […]
How The Great Recession Blog came into being. On February 3rd, 2011, I wrote about some ideas to Stan for his own website. As he didn’t take up that focus right away, the idea grew within me to develop my own website on this theme. Many months later I followed through with that and began The […]
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