Chyden Finance: profit from hypocrisy

John O. Blackburn and Sam Cunningham of North Carolina Waste Awareness & Reduction Network (NC WARN) have released a new paper, “Solar and Nuclear Costs — The Historic Crossover: Solar Energy is Now the Better Buy,” [warning: PDF] that claims, as its title implies, that the price of solar electricity is now less than the [...]

This is a video produced by Japanese artist, Isao Hashimoto, which depicts the 2,053 nuclear bombs detonated between 1945 and 1998.
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Why does Pres. Obama continue to refuse to waive the Jones Act???
Labor unions love this WWI-era piece of rent-seeking protectionism, because it forces shipping firms to pay higher labor costs, which translate into higher consumer prices.
More immediately, the Jones Act is preventing advanced oil skimming ships that are specifically designed for the task at hand [...]

Lately, my focus has been significantly less on LMF Theory than in the past and almost exclusively on the more uplifting prospect of fostering international development through business education, specifically finance.
Of course, one way that individuals can prosper is to short-sell stupidity, ignorance, and lies, but that is not the only route that one can [...]

Multiculturalism outside of the classroom is not about dancing bunnies, singing unicorns, and lollipop fountains, but about knowing when to push back and how hard. It is also knowing when to anticipate that the other party is going to feel that you have initiated the confrontation.
In some cultures arguing is a normal part of the [...]

The Wall Street Journal reports, “[S]cientists for the first time have created a synthetic cell, completely controlled by man-made genetic instructions.”
What a delightful conundrum for creationists. If life is the product of Intelligent Design, then man is godlike, and God is reduced from infinite to about 5′10″ (180 cm), 175 pounds (80 kg), and [...]

Asia Times Online reports, “Life-saving medicines could become too costly for the world’s poor after a new trade agreement between the European Union and India comes into effect.”
According to the US Constitution, the purpose of patents is to promote innovation, however they more commonly are used to secure monopoly profits.
In general, two kinds of monopoly [...]

The Meme of the Week seems to be ’spread the wealth’.
Let’s look at that one.
One of the frequently cited ‘facts’ is the string of Clinton Surpluses.
However, if one pulls data from the US Treasury website on the level of the US federal government debt and graphs it, one can see the slightest of wiggles and [...]