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Getting Nowhere, Very Fast

By BCNN1 on February 6, 2012 10:08 AM
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February 6, 2012

California has a huge state debt and Washington has a huge national debt. But that does not discourage either Governor Jerry Brown or President Barack Obama from wanting to launch a very costly high-speed rail system.

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Is Anybody Serious?

By BCNN1 on January 30, 2012 5:24 AM
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January 30, 2012

The Republican candidates' circular firing squad now seems to be using machine guns.

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An Ignored 'Disparity': Part IV

By BCNN1 on January 23, 2012 9:10 AM
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January 23, 2012

Different histories, geography, demography and cultures have left various groups, races, nations and civilizations with radically different abilities to create wealth.

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An Ignored 'Disparity': Part III

By BCNN1 on January 19, 2012 9:09 AM
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January 19, 2012

Anyone who has ever been in a Third World country, or even in a slum neighborhood at home, is likely to wonder why there can be such dire poverty among some people, while others are prospering.

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An Ignored 'Disparity': Part II

By BCNN1 on January 18, 2012 9:08 AM
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January 18, 2012

One of the ways of trying to reduce the vast disparities in economic success, which are common in countries around the world, is by making higher education more widely available, even for people without the money to pay for it.

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An Ignored 'Disparity'

By BCNN1 on January 17, 2012 9:06 AM
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January 17, 2012

With all the talk about "disparities" in innumerable contexts, there is one very important disparity that gets remarkably little attention -- disparities in the ability to create wealth.

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Kodak and the Post Office

By BCNN1 on January 16, 2012 2:21 AM
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January 16, 2012

The news that Eastman Kodak is preparing to file for bankruptcy, after being the leading photographic company in the world for more than a hundred years, truly marks the end of an era.

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Republican Voters' Choices

By BCNN1 on January 2, 2012 2:47 AM
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January 2, 2012

No one seems to be really happy with this year's field of Republican candidates for that party's presidential nomination -- except perhaps the Democrats.

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The Past and the Present

By BCNN1 on December 26, 2011 4:30 AM
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December 26, 2011

If Newt Gingrich were being nominated for sainthood, many of us would vote very differently from the way we would vote if he were being nominated for a political office.

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Gridlock to the Rescue

By BCNN1 on December 19, 2011 5:33 AM
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December 19, 2011

Washington gridlock may turn out to be the salvation of the Obama administration.

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