Last night the online acceptance service PayPal went offline for 8 hours starting at about 8 p.m. CDT. All you could get from clicking on any PayPal link or button on any of millions of web sites was a message that this unexpected prime-time outage was "routine maintenance". This morning,…
I found this post How Large is the Religion Industry in America?. In brief, the unreported, unaccounted billions of dollars paid to churches and faith-based programs certainly amount to a noticeable slice of the GNP pie. But because of the special status given to religion in this country, no one…
How many times have you heard that there is an immense amount of oil shale, from which we can extract lots and lots of oil? I've heard this claim dozens of times, yet the people uttering this claim never know anything at all about what it takes to make oil…
Here is Barack Obama setting forth his plan for keeping America energy independent. His plan is that America should control it's own energy and it's own destiny. How? By taking real steps away from purchasing $700,000,000 of foreign oil every day and, instead, creating our own energy. We import more…
I just finished reading a terrifically clear and concise article on measuring "the economy" by Jonathan Rowe, published by Harpers. It is entitled "Our Phony Economy." Please allow me to set the scene. Haven't you wondered why politicians and the news media so often obsess about the rising and falling…