These entries address politics, or how we organize ourselves in modern society
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Greetings friends! James Bellerjeau here. Three is a powerful number, as far as these things go. It is in fact the third most powerful. Ask a decorator how many items they group together to finish a room. It is three. One, two, or four just don't look as
My Two Cents
The problems the U.S. faces with both its regular deficit spending and its expanding debt to GDP ratio are serious but solvable. Waiting until disaster strikes would mean the remedy would be that much more painful: think Greece or Venezuela.
My Two Cents
Competition among individual Americans and American companies has unquestionably made America great. But competition in one particular area is not producing great results: national politics.
Politics
If you hire a fox to guard the henhouse, don’t be surprised if the number of chickens in your coop goes down.
Politics
Off the top of my head I can think of ten ways to make politics better. You will not agree with all of these, and you will have some better ideas.
My Two Cents
We can ask the following questions about Congress’s performance: do the laws Congress passes perform as intended? And are our tax dollars well spent?
My Two Cents
To understand incentives is to understand human motivation. If you want to know what a person will do, start by asking what they have to gain or lose from an action.