Applenomics & Chinese Labor: The American Citizens’ Culpability

And while the phone and its applications are arguably excessive and frivolous, and I have felt a bit materialistic for having one, I’ve never felt guilty about owning it, and realistically, why should I? It’s just a phone. An incredibly advanced, technologically unparalleled, brilliantly trendy phone. How bad could owning one really be?

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The American Job: The Promise of Instability

At best, this across the field job neurosis could inspire a sense of camaraderie, a shared misery that reduces the jealousy and hostility that I’m all too afraid will define this era.

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The Trade Deficit: The Real American Crisis

After recently reading one of the most insightful, well-researched, albeit depressing articles of the actualities of America’s trade policy, and the reality that the Trade Deficit is the real cause of our economic woes and persistent unemployment crisis, I can not take any solace or joy in the President’s accolades for Alliance Transmissions and its incredible achievements in China.

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Thinking Big 2: Fixing the Housing Crisis

We must correct the housing market by re-establishing new, realistic values and providing new low interest loans based on them.

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Ayn Rand’s Advice on America’s Money Problems

Whether it is the U.S. not paying some bills, waiters being paid too much, or a winning lottery ticket not being claimed, we are all living the American Dream.

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Buying Back America’s Future

If money is the ultimate goal in a nation’s economy, then we are doomed to perpetual 20% unemployment, higher costs of essential goods and energy, and increasing global perturbations.

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Reverberations of Japan's Quaking

Writing is a way to make sense of the world and today I need its therapeutic effects to stop me from shaking.

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The Cost of Health Care: What will you Pay?

As you have seen in the recent posts, health care is on the American conscience. It is becoming a topic to discuss at lunch with the ease of religion or politics. But today I had a good conversation that began: How much are you willing to pay for your health care?

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The Men in The Debris

The most unusual aspect was its point of origin, the earthquake’s that is, for it had assaulted an island that most only know for human tragedy and man-made disaster. But bloody wars, brutal dictators, and infamous death squads will all be forgotten now, for Haiti, like the innocent, impoverished victims of so many other natural disasters, will now be recollected as yet another casualty of nature’s indifferent devastation.

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Google, The Great Firewall, and Why Blogging Matters

Today Google, one of the internet's largest and most innovative companies, announced that it is considering pulling its search engine, email and other products out of China's internet market. The move comes after a cyber attack on Google's server in which hackers tried to access the gmail accounts of several Chinese human rights activists. This offensive coupled with evidence that suggests these were the same hackers who infiltrated US defense computer system last year could portend a full blown geopolitical cyber crisis.

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