I believe the economic prediction economy has recovered and is now quite healthy. Indeed, here in Florida economists never really felt a recession. If anything, the recession created a greater market for them than ever, since local news media here have been running, “Economist says real estate has bottomed, now is the time to buy,” [...]

We seem to have collectively decided that at least 15% of our working-age population is no longer necessary to keep our country’s businesses running, and every year we have a larger number of surplus people as we shift more jobs overseas or automate them out of existence. We basically have two choices: we can either [...]

A video I didn’t make that shows just about every TV news cliche I avoid in my own work.

One of my wife’s friends is a doctor’s wife — who is now on an austerity budget because, she says, her husband’s pediatric practice now sees an average of seven patients per day, down from an average of thirty patients per day a year ago. He’s laying off two more of his office staff people [...]

I find it amazing that so many people who talked a good “free market” game were so quick to use my tax money to save their wealthy friends’ millions when said friends made poor bets — and lost. I know we’re all supposed to blame Obama for everything bad that’s happened in this country since [...]

Carolina Launch Pad names 2010 class of entrepreneurs
CHAPEL HILL, NC, January 8, 2010—New participants in Carolina Launch Pad will move into office space within the next few weeks as the pre-commercial incubator located at RENCI begins its second year.
Carolina Launch Pad, funded by RENCI through the UNC Office of the Provost, targets faculty, staff and [...]

The Ponzi scheme prosecutions we’ve been reading about lately are unfair, and I blame the Democrats, or “Dumbocrats” as some call them, for treating business people as criminals when all they were trying to do was maximize profits. Here’s why:

This is a screed I originally posted on an Indian friend’s Facebook wall: Don’t worry about the US [on the pollution front]. We’re down from using 40% of the world’s resources (and generating 40% of the pollution) to under 30% — and dropping. Our richie-riches are determined to keep us “competitive” in the world labor [...]

I have a simple approach to fixing our health care system that will piss off both Republicans and Democrats, not to mention insurance, hospital, pharma, and other health care executives whose huge incomes are dependent on major profits from the current system. Trial lawyers won’t like it, either. Therefore, treat this as a fantasy — [...]

That’s right, seniors. Speak up. Tell your representatives how much you resent socialized medicine and want it shut down. Medicare is nothing but socialized medicine combined with age discrimination. There is no constitutional authority for it, and it corrupts the American system of competitive medical care and the sacred one-on-one relationship between a patient and [...]