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Econoblog has published an informative piece on the public debt ‘overhang’-something like an avalanche snow cornice I suppose, that may account for the slow economic growth. http://www.economonitor.com/blog/2015/09/united-states-government-debt-is-in-uncharted-territory-2/ There is also… Read more

It seems as if mass foreign migrations, often illegal, usually benefit management. Labor supply and demand is comparable to product supply and demand. international trade agreements exist to prevent dumping… Read more

The Roman Pontiff in a speech to Congress in D.C. appeared to say that the U.S.A. is hostile to immigrants, and failed to recognize the difference between legal and illegal… Read more

Contemporary science has learned a lot about ecosystems and biology. On the Earth however there is no opportunity to apply all that knowledge to create a complete living ecosphere; for… Read more

In about 1655 Richard Baxter published one of four volumes of Practical Works titled ‘Ethics’. Baxter was something of a brilliant reformed theologian. He described time as being the place… Read more

Scientists have found that fish have dropped in quantity by 50% since 1970. http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/ocean-fish-numbers-cut-in-half-since-1970/ That’s bad for fishing prospects with the world population maybe doubled since then. On the other… Read more

Governing the senses, rather than being governed by the senses, is an implicit human characteristic of reason. Reason is a process of mind sorting through a large body of sense… Read more

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said that the United States and Russia share the same goal of transitioning to a secular Syrian state that is stable. Some would like… Read more

Since the terrible Carter years when the Arab and OPEC oil embargo made plain the scarcity of U.S. oil reserves the Congress has banned exports of remaining U.S. oil. That… Read more

President Obama’s foreign policy seems to be primarily to expand the dar al harb and the dar al Islam. Anyone might have guessed that stimulating civil war in Syria would… Read more