The free trade agreements like NAFTA were all fun and games as long as they outsourced and drove down the jobs and wages of the non-college educated class. Now the true reality of the situation is dawning upon the former middle class. Very few people are safe from being forced to work harder and harder while acquiring ...more

I can see it now. Some billionaire buys trillions of forever stamps and starts selling them for massive profits in the near future. Maybe they are the perfect investment hedge against inflation. After all they are guaranteed forever to do exactly what they do today. Therefore they have perfect value preservation.   T...more

The problem is completely artificial. Any time that they want to solve it they can easily do so by raising or eliminating the income cap.   They want the problem so that they can endlessly argue for only the solutions that favor their crony  lobbyists' interests.   We just need to not fall for their propaganda. We ...more

All politically oriented information is biased and subjective. That is why it is so important to listen to many different perspectives. Each side will always  distort, inflate the facts that support their side of things and ignore or attack the facts that go against their own pet theory about how the world should work....more

The kind of technology that kept Darth Vader alive after most of his human body was destroyed would be nice to see in real life. Unfortunately even if it existed then it would not be affordable for most of us.

Now they can advertise this finding as proof of live active probiotic cultures just like it says on yogurt containers.

I guess that school cafeterias will have to ban knives and forks next. Kids will have to eat their lunches with soft rubber spoons just to be safe from dangerous children all around them who would otherwise be wielding deadly weapons.

It is interesting how evolution works. The old species unconsciously create the new ones that eventually replace them. It looks like the robots will eventually inherit the Earth. Businesses will have to do what it takes to remain competitive as they replace all of their workers. Engineers will be hurrying to create bet...more

The government serves the citizens. That is the large corporate citizens who are considered too big to fail. This is why the market will be taken care of by the FED until all of the most important people can unwind their positions. After that the round two market dive of the "Great Recession" will commence. It will nev...more