An investigation into ideas that can prove America that includes, alternative bail, the medical system, taxing capital gains, improving the EITC and child credit and more.
Upcoming Articles
Capital Gains, Buybacks, and Debt Deductibility
An in depth look into how these tax preferences hurt the economy and how the money could be used to efficiently provide the necessities to everyone else
This would be an update to Deregulation and Disaster and a complement to Floors and Ceilings
Disruptions
A look into how technological advances in energy, connectivity, water, food production, banking and manufacturing will change the world
Government Policy Ideas
A list of government policy ideas that would approve American such as free 2 years of college, asset tax, rent seeking taxes, loosening of child care regulations, and federal investments into K-12
Science and Tech Ideas
A list of tech ideas to commercialize including tidal power, block chain, power purchase agreements for renewables
Minimalist Living
An article about the benefits in cost and mental health in a minimalist lifestyle
A think piece on how some services could use a public option to put pressure on private providers and to provide services to those who would otherwise go without.
A think piece and investigation into how to grow the middle class that looks into free trade, the Great Compression, a living wage, taxes, a negative income tax, and government aid.
A think piece and investigation into how free trade agreements and monopolies have reshaped the global economy for good and ill, concentrated wealth in certain regions, and what can and is being done to adapt to this new normal.
A discarded entry for the How to End Poverty series, acknowledging the rapid manufacturing productivity gains as predicted by Keynes and lamenting the lack of corresponding income growth
A quick summary of ideas to investigate including a city pass, a universal curriculum, medical insurance, professional associations, patents, business policy, and tax policy.
A think piece and investigation into Glass-Steagall, deregulation, Dodd-Frank, Stock Buybacks, and Patent Laws and how they all interact in an environment that has promoted gambling and contributed to the start of the Great Recession in 2008.
A summary of why Houston’s anti-discrimination proposition failed, the rise of Bernie Sanders, Obama’s accomplishments, and the original logic behind the TPP
A quick think piece on why we shouldn’t be so involved in Iraq and the Middle East in general
Similar to the Atlantic’s The Obama Doctrine (April 2016) by Jeffrey Goldberg which is a long form article about Obama’s foreign policy, the history of foreign involvement in the Middle East, and why Obama believes its necessary to pivot from the Middle East to Asia
Interestingly this is what the TPP that Trump was supposed to do and now he shares very similar views.
A quick summary of the Kafala system and how it forces migrant workers into a form of indentured servitude, why the US does not get involved, and how it is similar to our own immigration laws.
A long form discussion of sex work (specifically porn) done by young woman (18-20), college affordability, college prestige, prospects after college, root causes of the escalating cost of college, and the lifetime taboo of unorthodox means of income generation even as a means to a lionized goal.
A quick summary of drones, aerial vehicles, molten salt reactors, Obama’s stance on technology, and various TV shows including iRobot, the Night Of, and Tyrant
A recap of the Paris Attacks, the situation then with Syrian Refugees, the 2016 Democratic Presidential candidates, and the University of Missouri’s latest racism problem
A quick summary of events in Fall 2015 including Houston Prop 1 (HERO aka the Bathroom Bill), the 2016 presidential candidates, and Obama’s international legacy.
Summary of the 2015 Super Bowl, halftime show, and the Duggar’s weird views on abortion and how that applies to black people during black history month
