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The Cost of Empire I-NSC-68
This is the first of a four part series that ties our current economic crisis to the thirty year buildup of defense spending since the Reagan Presidency. You can find a prologue here. The roots of Ame… more »
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The Cost of Empire I-NSC-68
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Jon Taplin wrote 5 days ago: This is the first of a four part series that ties our current economic crisis to the thirty year bui … more »
Boom and Bust
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Jon Taplin wrote 6 days ago: This is a Prologue to a series of four articles called The Cost of Empire. The articles flow daily o … more »
Decline of the Roman Empire
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Jon Taplin wrote 1 week ago: In the later part of Roman decadence the vomitorium was introduced. When historians in 2100 want to … more »
Uncle Sucker to The Rescue
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Jon Taplin wrote 1 week ago: While the Congress ponders whether to cough up $300 billion to backstop Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, … more »
Idiocy
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Jon Taplin wrote 1 week ago: This is so pathetic. The Huffington Post devoting “major wood” to their home page of th … more »
Corporate Socialism
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Jon Taplin wrote 1 week ago: I wish I was “too big to fail”. That’s what all the talking heads in Washington a … more »
U.S. "Done in Iraq" by July 2009
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Jon Taplin wrote 2 weeks ago: This is rather encouraging. U.S. ground troops in Iraq will be mostly finished with security oper … more »
Letting Boone Have His Say
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Jon Taplin wrote 2 weeks ago: I always thought Bonne Pickens was kind of a “Corporate Raider” cliche. But there is act … more »
Vegas Hits the Hard Times
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Jon Taplin wrote 2 weeks ago: For a while entertainment analysts used to think that gambling was not a cyclical component of the … more »
John Lennon Talks
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Jon Taplin wrote 2 weeks ago: In 1969, a 14-year-old Beatle fanatic named Jerry Levitan, armed with a reel-to-reel tape deck, snu … more »
Bank Losses=$1.6 Trillion
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Jon Taplin wrote 2 weeks ago: A Swiss Newspaper got a hold of a confidential memo from Bridgewater Associates, one of the world … more »
Oil Crisis and the Conservative Revolution
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Jon Taplin wrote 2 weeks ago: I guess if I have to pick one person to blame for our current energy crisis, it would have to be New … more »
Independence Day
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Jon Taplin wrote 3 weeks ago: When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political ba … more »
Warren Buffet says it's Stagflation
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Jon Taplin wrote 3 weeks ago: In February, I wrote that I thought the greatest danger to our economy was stagflation and that it w … more »
ADHD on Al Qaeda
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Jon Taplin wrote 3 weeks ago: It’s getting close to the Fourth of July and you can bet Vice President Cheney will be enjoyin … more »
Day of Reckoning
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Jon Taplin wrote 3 weeks ago: This is the way the world ends/Not with a bang but a whimper. T.S.Eliot, The Hollow Men Merrill Ly … more »
Rush Limbaugh Freaks Out
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Jon Taplin wrote 1 month ago: Here is Rush Limbaugh pictured in front of his Imaginary America, where everybody except New Englan … more »
America's Religous Tolerance
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Jon Taplin wrote 1 month ago: A new survey by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life debunks the classic meme of intolerant re … more »
Sign of The Times
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Jon Taplin wrote 1 month ago: In the 1930’s as the U.S.plunged into the Great Depression, Hollywood’s designated role … more »
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