Income Inequality: Occupy Wall Street thinks the American middle class is disappearing. And they’re right. Pay for top executives has risen 7 times faster than that of their workers. That’s great if you’re the CEO, but most of us aren’t. In fact, after adjusting for inflation, real household incomes are down 10% over the last [...]
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Why Occupy Wall Street? Wall Street is symbolic of our larger economy. That’s why news tickers show the minute by minute movement of the Dow. Despite providing mechanisms for growing companies to raise money with IPOs and hire more employees, Wall Street is easy to hate. Despite giving average citizens an opportunity to earn an [...]
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Occupy Wall Street, you have our attention. Now what? I’ve been closely following the month-old Occupy Wall Street movement. If you haven’t heard about it, a group of mad-as-hell-and-not-going-to-take-it-anymore demonstrators decided to camp out in Zuccotti Park in lower Manhattan to express their disgust with the current state of political and economic affairs in this [...]
These are real words from a real person who won a real election in America. “There are hundreds and hundreds of scientists, many of them holding Nobel Prizes, who believe in intelligent design.” “[Gay marriage] is probably the biggest issue that will impact our state and our nation in, at least, the last 30 years. [...]
I received a letter from the IRS last week, saying I had failed to file some form that was due in October of 2009. It’s very likely that is a true statement. I can’t say for sure, because it’s been 19 months and I filed a lot of forms in that time, but I’ll take [...]
It took a while, but I finally finished Michael Pollan’s In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto. You may recognize the cover with its lettuce and the book’s key advice: “Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.” It was a very interesting read, thanks Chris for the recommendation. Pollan believes our “Western Diet” is the [...]
