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Is the Market working? Yes, Unfortunately.

OceansOfThought @ September 30, 2008 # Comments Off on Is the Market working? Yes, Unfortunately.

   I’ll glad you pay you Tuesday, for a hamburger today. – Whimpy   Intervention in Markets, with artificial price controls (high or low) taxes and regulation is never pretty when things revert back to their natural state, but a purely capital society cannot be left to itself without some regulation.  Monopolies are bad for […]

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On the Coming Change in America

OceansOfThought @ September 21, 2008 # Comments Off on On the Coming Change in America

In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God…. God’s purpose is something different from the purpose of either party – and yet the human instrumentalities, working just as they do, are of the best adaptation to effect His purpose. – Abraham Lincoln My My, how our country has changed. […]

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On Failing Large Companies and True Risk

OceansOfThought @ September 17, 2008 # Comments Off on On Failing Large Companies and True Risk

Many people want the government to protect the consumer. A much more urgent problem is to protect the consumer from the government. – Milton Friedman In a capitalist society, big companies need to fail.  It refreshes them, it refreshes the market, and it makes us stronger. However, let’s make it clear, these failures does not […]

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On The Turn of the Tide

OceansOfThought @ September 15, 2008 # Comments Off on On The Turn of the Tide

The Stormy Present We here have not written in a long time, there was not much to say, nothing we had not written or was reflected in print otherwise.  We, this grand expiriment was not about repeating news, but to be enlightened about the stormy present, a belief which said, ” Change course, or crash.”   […]

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