Presidential candidate qualification: Personal wealth

Individual wealth may 1) be an indicator of personal accomplishment, 2) be an indicator of parents’ and grandparents’ accomplishments and inheritance. America’s founding fathers were all accomplished...

Representatives have always been better off than constituents

Need a new economic model With some exceptions, representatives are better off than constituents as they should be. If we voters select the right people to represent us, they will most assuredly be among the most...

Changing Attitudes Toward the Less Wealthy

A Russian writer wrote that in Russia, there are two kinds of people: Smart and mean; and stupid and kind. In America the situation is fairly more complex. There are plenty of stupid and mean people, such as the majority of skinheads, gangsters and Nascar Republicans;...

Obama Turns Back the Debt Clock to Save the World

Washington DC - With the stroke of a pen, President Barack Obama has rescued the world from a catastrophic economic meltdown.  The president signed into law today The Quantitative Time Act, effectively...

Suzanne Mubarak Suffers Heart Attack in Detention

The wife of Egypt's ousted President, Hosni Mubarak has taken ill with suspected heart attack. Suzanne Mubarak was admitted to hospital in the resort of Sharm el-Sheikh just hours after anti-corruption officials...

Divorce as a Re-Distributive Mechanism and Wealth Transfer

By Sam Vaknin Author of "Malignant Self-love: Narcissism Revisited""Even in modern times, in most cases husbands and wives differ in their potential for acquiring property. In separation of property, husbands and wives owning property and dealing with each other will be in...

Envy as the Foundation of Capitalism

By Sam Vaknin Author of "Malignant Self-love: Narcissism Revisited" In the 18th century, the political philosopher and novelist Jean-Jacques Rousseau made a distinction between amour de soi and amour propre. The former involved striking a balance between regard for...

Is the subject about capitalism or about becoming wealthy?

I really want to talk about the system of capitalism but I can get there until I cross the bridge about the pursuit of wealth and riches. Refer to previous stories:...

Excessive: when 1% ≥ 23.5% of wealth

This is an interesting article that indicates when the top 1% of the wealthiest people has garnered ≥ 23.5% of wealth, for the rest, the economy goes south. That seems plausible. I believe that economies are...

The race to the top of the world's best businessman

" " According to Forbes magazine, Carlos Slim Helú, the son of a Lebanese immigrant to Mexico who has become a major shareholder in and lender to The New York Times, is now the world’s richest man.Slim’s wealth increased by about $18.5 billion in the...

Barack Obama's Ten Commandments

According to The Patriot Update, A Free Press for the Conservative Revolution, President Barack Obama '...lives and governs according to his own set of "Ten Commandments."'; not to be confused with the Ten...

The Citizens Dividend Liberates Everyone

EXCERPT: This Robin Hood scenario has rarely happened in history. More efficient than trying to capture wealth downstream, after the elite has accumulated it, is to capture wealth upstream, preventing an elite from forming. A tax on income or sales or property captures wealth...

The Wealthy Turn Stealthy as US Economy Weakens

The rich are still maintaining their high lifestyles, but some are trying to hide their wealth. Retailing experts are calling this "luxury shame" or "stealth wealth". " Some shoppers are asking cashiers at...

"SPREADING THE WEALTH" VIA EMAIL !!!

How many emails have you deleted recently just because all the text was in Capital Letters and the grammar was incorrect?  Don't be so skeptical. You should have checked more closely.  Don't let it...

Stolen Wealth

Considerable research shows that people get rich more because of inherited and accumulated knowledge and not their personal efforts.  Big implications for tax policy. Unjust Deserts: Book ReviewLike a law of...

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