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Category Archives: Economics
Are Subliminal MP3s A Scam?
For the past month, I’ve been looking around Clickbank.com for information products to promote (the marketer gets on average 50% of the purchase price) and discovered that many of the metrics on Subliminal MP3s look great. (If you want to … Continue reading
Posted in Economics, Personal
Tagged college football players, conscience qualms, Google, google keyword tool, google search, hypnotism, sensory stimuli, subliminal stimuli
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Yisroel Pensack: Prime Minister Proposes English Health Care System Overhaul
According to an article by Sarah Lyall in The New York Times: LONDON — Prime Minister David Cameron on Wednesday proposed a radical reorganization of England’s health care system, introducing legislation that would hand responsibility for most of the country’s … Continue reading
Posted in Economics, Henry George, New York Times, Yisroel Pensack
Tagged 1909 Budget Bill, American, Britain, david cameron, England's health care system, land values, landlords, Lloyd George, National Health Service, prime minister, sarah lyall, socialized care, taxes, United States
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Meltdown
Jack emails: Was Rosh Hashana 2009 trading a precurser to the May 6 Meltdown on the New York Stock Exchange (NYX NYSE)? While even the most secular Jews worldwide were either in Temple or the golf course, but certainly not … Continue reading
Posted in Economics
Tagged divine wrath, gala balls, israeli banks, new york stock exchange, professional suicide, york stock exchange
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Did Bankers Cause The Housing Crash?
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EconStories.tv
This comes from my former UCLA economics professor Russell Roberts, an Orthodox Jew. Our wide-ranging conversations in 1988-1989 were life-changing. Here’s his story: Russell Roberts is Professor of Economics at George Mason University, the J. Fish and Lillian F. Smith … Continue reading
Posted in Economics, Russ Roberts
Tagged cafe hayek, george mason university, orthodox jew, possibility and prosperity, princeton university press, ucla economics
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Steve Forbes Discusses His New Book – ‘How Capitalism Will Save Us’
On Dec. 14, 2009, Dennis Prager interviewed Steve Forbes about his new book, “How Capitalism Will Save Us.” Steve: “When you look at economic disasters, it wasn’t some sudden failure of free people and free markets that caused the disasters, … Continue reading
Posted in Dennis Prager, Economics
Tagged congressman ron paul, Dennis Prager, economic disasters, fannie mae and freddie mac, steve forbes, washington congressman
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What Caused The Housing Boom And Bust?
Dennis Prager talked to economist Tom Sowell, 79, on Dec. 15, 2009 about his new book “The Housing Boom and Bust”. Dennis: “Who caused this bust?” Tom: “Government. The people who were forced directly to make the bad loans under … Continue reading
Posted in Dennis Prager, Economics
Tagged community reinvestment act, community reinvestment act 1977, Dennis Prager, fannie mae and freddie mac, income minorities, tom sowell
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