Chyden Finance: profit from hypocrisy

In an earlier post, I described LMF Theory. Lest the fair reader fear that I was being glib, Congressional Quarterly staff reported on 26 February 2009 that President Obama, who took a no-earmarks pledge during last year’s presidential campaign, along with several of his cabinet officials who were in Congress last year, feature prominently [...]

It would appear that Thomas L. Friedman has been reading this blog.
His 10 February 2009 “The Open-Door Bailout” is a very well written summary of what I have been saying and expect to continue to say about immigration.
“When the best brains in the world are on sale, you don’t shut them out. You open your [...]

According to the US Department of Education’s (DOE) 2007 “Comparative Indicators of Education in the United States and Other G-8 Countries: 2006,” per-pupil and per-student expenditures are significantly higher in the USA than in other developed countries, both in absolute terms and as a percentage of GDP.
In spite of this, American pupils and students tend [...]

The Wall Street Journal published an article by Michael Malone (2008) titled “Washington Is Killing Silicon Valley” that addresses the logical outcome of the kind of disjoint identified by the DOE data. Specifically, Malone addresses what happens, when we ignore or reject the wisdom of Paul Graham’s (2006) “Why Startups Condense in America” and [...]

Metarchy is a set of principles for choosing among ethical, political, and economic philosophies based on the idea of applying political philosophies to themselves, and choosing among the ones that do not implode from internal contradictions or explode in a fit of all-against-all.
The term metarchy comes from meta-, denoting something of a higher or second [...]

Some myths refuse to die. The Overpopulation Myth is one of the more pernicious, as it leads inevitably and inexorably to calls for what is the functional equivalent of genocide. Granted, Overpopulation Mythologists tend not to come right out and actually say it, but it is there, as it has been all along.
For [...]