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It wasn't just about sex. It was about redemption. The best sex usually is. You don't just want to empty your glands; you want to fi...

P lus a few ever changing constants

If it’s not broken, don’t fix it.  Even if it is broken, leave it alone, you’ll probably make it worse.

Most wanted serial killer of the last century.

  We’re all just walking each other home.

 The past is never dead. It’s not even past

  It’s never fifty-fifty. It’s always seventy-thirty, or sixty-forty.

Public Pensions and Social Security by Michael S. Greve Public pension systems and Social Security were built decades ago, under very...

Still, not a zero sum game By Mark J. Perry The charts above are based on   new data from the United Nations   on GDP and its comp...

Income disparity in South Africa is larger now than under Apartheid BY MARC CHANDLER This   Great Graphic   shows how the average i...

V ery Slowly and Then At Once by  Barry Ritholtz

All told, Reuters was able to identify about $95 billion in property and corporate assets controlled by Setad Ayatollah Khamenei, the S...

Share of Americans over age 16 who say they don’t want a job, up to  34.3%  from about 30% two decades ago by John Doe Americans aren...

Whatever you call it, it is a very dangerous system By WashingtonsBlog What is the current American economy: capitalism, socialism or...

Without creation, there can be no distribution. by Selwyn Duke What has lifted more people out of poverty, charity or economic freedo...

Yes, the middle-class has been disappearing, but they haven’t fallen into the lower-class, they’ve risen into the upper-class By Mark J...

Facts Versus Ideology By  Joseph Calhoun Matthew Melchiorre of the Competitive Enterprise Institute has a new paper, The Tru...

Stigende renter? Hvad er det? Hjælp! by  Pater Tenebrarum If we're not completely mistaken, then the above is Danish for: “Risin...

People  need  food, too By Nathaniel Givens Imagine if grocery shopping worked like health insurance.  Let’s call it “food insurance”...

Happy Father’s Day!  "My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person: he believed in me."         - Jim...