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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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.” […]
OceansOfThought @ August 27, 2008 # Comments Off on On the Defense of Monsters, and Patriots
“People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.” – George Orwell Any civil country most maintain Monsters, whose sole purpose is to maintain the civility and freedoms of that society – by any means necessary. These means are not acceptable by […]
OceansOfThought @ August 21, 2008 # Comments Off on On Teams and not Committees
“Organization doesn’t really accomplish anything. Plans don’t accomplish anything, either. Theories of management don’t much matter. Endeavors succeed or fail because of the people involved.” – Colin Powell A team comprises a group of people or animals linked in a common purpose. while a committee is a group of persons convened for the accomplishment of some […]
OceansOfThought @ August 18, 2008 # Comments Off on On the Accident of Birth Order
Being pretty on the inside means you don’t hit your brother and you eat all your peas – that’s what my grandma taught me. – Lord Chesterfield I sometimes think it is a terrible thing we do to the oldest of those who are born. Being born of this wholesomely unlucky number of being the […]
OceansOfThought @ August 11, 2008 # Comments Off on On A Bold Strategic Move by Russia
If the opposition disarms, well and good. If it refuses to disarm, we shall disarm it ourselves. – Stalin Let’s get something factual before we begin. Georgia (as in the Republic of Georgia) poked a bear (Russia) and the bear didn’t just swat at Georgia, it went after it full force. Full invasion is smart […]
OceansOfThought @ July 28, 2008 # Comments Off on On Vacation
Times are a changing and even the greatest staff writer needs a vacation. So review the last few posts, and we’ll get back to writing more stories. It’ll be about 2 weeks. Thanks to our readers. You can still contact us. (see authors page)
OceansOfThought @ July 21, 2008 # One Comment
We are too busy for lunch. I have come to this conclusion after failing to do something I have written in my hand twice today. This is just as impactful because I wrote it all last week. “Get lunch” I know there are people who schedule lunch. Infact there are people I cannot speak with […]