I like to get in the head of the “other side” - for example, when I was an auditor, I wanted to figure out what client management was thinking when they chose not to record a liability for an obvious loan, or when I took my cell phone back to Verizon within their “30-day No [...]

In the weekend edition of the Wall Street Journal was a memorium for Irving Kristol.  The memorium took excerpts from several of Kristol’s famous articles, and I liked this one the best:
“Income Inequality Without Class Conflict, Dec. 18, 1997
It is often said that capitalism—that is, a market economy—is morally obnoxious because its “trickle-down economics” inevitably [...]

Since the weekend is running slow. I thought I’d return to a favorite topic: Atlas Shrugged.  An important idea discussed by this book is, “What would happen to the economy, government, and/or society if the producers, inventors, and contributors one day stopped and disappeared?”  We’re talking about the people who really move the world.  
 The [...]

Those who support anarchy have the Anarchist Cookbook, those who believe in capitalism have Atlas Shrugged. Here is another WSJ article discussing her ideas from the 1950s that have important relevance today.  It is from this weekends edition.
IS RAND RELEVANT? 
By YARON BROOK
Ayn Rand died more than a quarter of a century ago, yet her name appears [...]

Capitalism has a very dark side.  Read about it in a book called Confessions of an Economic Hitman (Highly recommended).
Here is a quick synopsis:
Certain corporations and political organizations (collectively, the “corporatocracy”) hire consultants to encourage world leaders to become part of a vast network that promotes U.S. economic interests.   Specifically, the consultants (economic hitmen, or “EHM”s) [...]