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  • Agitate: Volume 2 Number 9: A Corporate Command Economy

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  • Walk out on your bank

    Thank you Stephen Pizzo from newsforreal.com.  Stephen is encouraging Americans to walk out on their large, multinational banks in favor of local, community banks. According to Pizzo, an any reasonable and attentive American, the Obama Administration is not likely to offer a real challenge to the banking system. No surprises there. With banking interests the… Read more

  • Another Good Investment

    Twenty years ago the infamous oil taner Exxon Valdez, commanded by a drunk, spilled 10.8 million gallons of oil into Alaska’s beautiful Prince William Sound.  The oil slick covered over 11,000 square miles and destroyed the natural habitat of the Alaskan shore. Though there were some efforts to clean up the overwhelming contamination, these were… Read more

  • Good Investment in Banking

    I’ve always been taught that if you want to understand the truth about an issue the first thing you should do is follow the money.  Some might say this is cynical, even counter-sociological, and I would not suggest that a sociologist should follow the money and stay there.  It is, however, a very telling enterprise.… Read more

  • When Elite Privelege has gotten out of Hand!

    This will be a very short blog because…well…really, there’s nothing that can be said.  The issue speaks for itself.  AIG! That’s it.  Not only has this company been instrumental in destroying the economy of the most powerful market in the world, thus crippling the world economy, they claimed to be too big to fail so… Read more

  • What we can learn from the music of the '60's

    I just finished reading Tom Brokaw’s book Boom!.  It was a good read and an interesting approach to the topic of the sixties, though frankly, I think Brokaw’s journalistic style leaves out some of the robustness and dynamism of the generation. But this is not a critique of the book. If you are a student… Read more

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