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 [...]

Rasmussen Reports reports, “23% of [US] voters nationwide believe the [US] federal government today has the consent of the governed. Sixty-two percent (62%) say it does not, and 15% are not sure.”
In other words, a huge majority in the USA consists of individuals who feel disenfranchised. At that point, very little difference exists between [...]

The Hill reports that the US Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs has approved a bill that grants the president of the USA a kill switch on the Internet. In Washington, DC, Orwellian doublespeak, this measure strengthens US residents’ access to information.
Watch out China, Iran, and North Korea, we gaining on you!
Meanwhile, the [...]

Hernando de Soto explains the importance of extending capitalist institutions to the poorest of the poor.

Invest accordingly.

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 [...]

BusinessWeek recently reported, “MBAs are going East.”
Here’s one:

“Every era has its version of the MBA dream. In the 1980s, it was about conquering Wall Street and choppering off to the Hamptons. The late 1990s saw a stampede to Silicon Valley. In the mid-aughts, the gilded, clubby preserve of private equity beckoned. Now, the emerging narrative [...]

This is a repost of a passage from my 12 June 2009 “Earthquakes and Mountains.” In light of recent events in the USA, it seems apropos.
Today, we are witnessing something of an anti-fall of the one remaining Great Power. Where once there was a bright shining Emerald City at the peak of the [...]

As the rest of the world has become more economically and socially developed, emigration has become less expensive, in the sense that a US resident has to give up less than was the case in the past, when going abroad permanently.
When I was a kid, we were told to eat all of our [...]

Most maddening of all in this debate over health-care reform in the USA is the tendency of the mainstream media to divide issues into two falsely dichotomous sound-bite extremes. We end up with a debate that is framed on a foundation of fallacies.
With regard to health insurance, we are told that ‘the’ choice is [...]

Ayn Rand championed cigarettes. The Ludwig von Mises Institute champions alcohol. And, of course, there’s the Second Amendment crowd out there championing guns.
I get the whole right-to-choose thing, and I recognize that if there is no victim, then there is no crime. Similarly, I am all for self-defense. I am a Floridian, after all!
But still… [...]