Just when it seemed that Washington was getting back to “normal,” President Obama’s most cherished accomplishment, The Affordable Health Care Act, exploded on the launch pad. Love or hate it, in the history of The United States of America, no federal program crashed, burned and bombed as badly as “Obamacare.” From day one, the nearly...
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Protest
From her book, Poems of Problems, 1914 To sin by silence, when we should protest,Makes cowards out of men. The human raceHas climbed on protest. Had no voice been raisedAgainst injustice, ignorance, and lust,The inquisition yet would serve the law,And guillotines decide our least disputes.The few who dare, must speak and speak againTo right the...
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Death of the dollar
Considering the rate at which U.S. public debt has been increasing and dollars printed to finance it, the dollar’s exchange value has survived longer than expected. The U.S. dollar began to crumble in 2011 when gold hit $1,900 per ounce. But the Federal Reserve discovered that it or its dependent bullion banks (Goldman Sachs, JP...
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Youth without work: An epic global crisis
Out of work, in debt, with no prospects on the horizon, teens and 20-somethings of the world are mad as hell. If you are under 25 years old and live just about anywhere on the planet, chances are good you are unemployed. The rate of youth unemployment is staggering, a crisis of epic proportions. The...
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No need for NATO
NATO has gone on too long. The North Atlantic Treaty Organization was established on April 4, 1949, as a defensive alliance whose purpose was to defend Western Europe in the event of a Soviet invasion. As NATO’s first secretary general put it, NATO was formed in order to keep the Russians out of Western Europe...
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Nothing new about social media…
We’ve always had social media. Sitting around a campfire telling stories is fundamentally social, with the air around our heads being the medium carrying human voices. Denizens of 16th-century Florence and Rome were known to tie notes to sculptures, expressing their approval or criticism — creating what were, perhaps, some of the earliest bulletin boards....
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Trendpost
Social media and the Internet technologies that have enabled them constitute the largest disruptions to business communications since Gutenberg’s invention of the press. These technologies are bringing with them new approaches to the creation of value, and transforming the relationships between the creators of goods and services and those who consume them.
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Healthy fast food brings fat profits
It’s been nearly 15 years since Jared Fogle famously lost a couple hundred pounds on a diet of Subway sandwiches, introducing us all to the improbable notion that fast food could be good for you. Yet there he was, 6’2’’ and a trim 200 pounds. It seemed almost preposterous that an American fast food eatery...
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“Real” healthy food joints have the edge
While the healthy fast food trend is now fully powered, there is a difference between familiar chains, which add healthier choices that still rely on processed preparation and ingredients, and the upstarts, which emphasize organic and whole foods. The latter players in this market are built on the concept of providing healthy whole foods, while...
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