Briefs

The economy is like a multi engine aircraft run by a great big rubber band, like the balsa wood model airplanes they used to make for kids. When the economy is booming interest rates gradually […]

Can we pay off the national debt? It is reprehensible that Congress voted to give a $1.6 trillion tax cut, and $1.5 trillion of it went to the richest 1% of Americans. When you are […]

Every week there’s an outbreak of Mad Cow Disease or Bird Flu that sends stocks reeling. The scientists scratch their heads wondering what could be wrong. Any idiot knows the problem: animals have minds too […]

Those who make over a certain amount should be able to designate exactly how they want it to be spent by the government. Corporations can go further, in designating specific research to be funded a-la […]

The American people have paid for all the research and development on our advanced military technology, so it is only right that their companies should be able to benefit too. “Made in the U.S.A.” should […]

Google added a billion new web pages to its search engine last month. With each passing day it gets harder and harder for people to advertise on the web; and more and more costly to […]

This whole terrorism deal is giving religious fundamentalism a bad name. Big business likes that. People with shallow convictions and tepid religion are more easily swayed by advertising. That means higher profits with less effort. […]

There are ten million illegal immigrants in America, and five million unemployed Americans. Meanwhile, Washington is trying to make these illegal immigrants legal; and all the special interests groups that pay for the advertising that […]

At UT Austin the expert on Unified Field Theory, Wheeling, is often quoted in the newspapers as saying that the UFT is tens of thousands of years in the future. During which time society will […]

It has been shown how extreme levels of security have driven scientists en mass to a quasi schizoid condition. A whole series of other modern trends is driving everybody else over the same cliff. Terrorism […]