Let’s pretend student loans aren’t just a stupendous and highly profitable scam being run on the youth of America. Of course pretending doesn’t make it so.
We have a “let’s pretend” economy: let’s pretend the unemployment rate actually reflec…
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Guts, Gumption and Hard Work Don’t Pay Off Anymore
by Bears Chat at The Wall Street Examiner • • 0 Comments
A profound change has come over America. Guts, gumption, and hard work don’t seem to pay off as they once did – or at least as they did in our national morality play. Instead, the game seems rigged in favor of people who are already rich and pow…
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America is a Land of Self-Interested Pygmies…
by Bears Chat at The Wall Street Examiner • • 0 Comments
The great cold lie at the heart of present-day America is that the nation will magically benefit if we each single-mindedly pursue our self-interest to the exclusion of all else. The idea has a sleek quasi-free-market sheen, as it borrows the market…
