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A Get Rich Quick Scheme Using Religion That Actually Works
The basic formula. How might you make big bucks in the religion racket? Try using the following formula on people: God is mad at you, pray this prayer, God won’t be mad at you. It’s that simple. Selling this psychologically … Continue reading
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Tagged atheism, critical thinking, faith, God, money, philosophy, psychology, religion, sales
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Televangelist Paul Crouch Dies at 79; Leaves Behind Two Mansions in Newport Beach
The news. Paul Crouch died yesterday. He had quite the racket going, laughing all the way to the bank. This is over now. Here’s a quote from The New York Times obituary on him this morning (written by Emma G. Fitzsimmons): … Continue reading
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Tagged God, hypocrisy, Jesus, money, Paul Crouch, religion, TBN, wealth
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Stalin and Mao, BFF
Stalin and Mao on currency, 1950: __________ I post the above currency image because I’ve been thinking about how images function to make the individual viewer feel like Dorothy before the Wizard of Oz (small and weak before The Great … Continue reading
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Tagged art, Communism, Mao, money, Nietzsche, philosophy, power, stalin
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Is This Mitt Romney’s Way of Flipping the Bird at the Losers He Conned and Fired?
There’s something deeply tribal about the below image of Mitt Romney with his buddies at Bain Capital in 1984. It’s more than just an expression of joy at making money: it’s the glee of spiking a football before the losers … Continue reading
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Tagged America, Ayn Rand, bain capital, capitalism, dollars, football, injustice, justice, mitt romney, money, newt gingrich, rush limbaugh, vulture capitalism
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Max Keiser on the “Blind Cult of America”
Max Keiser’s money program is uneven in quality and alarmist catnip for gold bugs, but this recent episode is mildly entertaining (though I don’t like his anti-intellectual populist posturing against Nobel Prize winning economist Paul Krugman). Max Keiser presents himself as a truth-teller bravely … Continue reading
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Tagged America, cults, depression 2.0, economics, gold, max keiser, money, Paul Krugman, social psychology, the economy
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Community Colleges, the Enrollment Bottleneck, and a Dirty Little Secret
On April 8, 2011, the New York Times ran a piece on students making: . . . a strategic financial decision to attend community college first as a cost saving measure. The cost savings can be large (perhaps somewhere in the … Continue reading
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Tagged antelope valley college, bottlenecks, California, college, community college, dirty secret, education, higher education, money, students, teachers
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Agnosticism and Marketing
At Marginal Revolution today, economist Tyler Cowen was asked about whether there are some especially good economic ideas out there that are hard to popularize, and his answer led to a brief digression on complexity and agnosticism: [I]t is hard to popularize … Continue reading
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Tagged agnostic, agnosticism, economics, green, marketing, memes, money, psychology, rhetoric
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Life, liberty, and the pursuit of $60,000 a year?
It appears that if your goal in life is to experience a pretty consistent sense of present “happiness,” then you should try to work your way into the top 20% of income earners in the United States and make $60,000 … Continue reading
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Tagged America, economics, existentialism, goals, happiness, hindu cows, life, money, Nietzsche, overgoing, Thomas Jefferson, wealth
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As a Political Statement, after this New Year’s Weekend, My Wife and I are Moving Our Money from Our Current Big Bank to a Small Bank
Here’s a video that explains what we’re doing, and why: Join us? Other than the inconvenience of the shift, if you move your money to a credit union or small community bank, your accounts are still FDIC insured. Visit this website … Continue reading
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Tagged 2010, activism, America, banks, credit unions, equality, feminism, james stewart, money, new year, Politics, small banks
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The Economy: Happy Days are Here Again?
The New York Times today says the recession may be over: The index of leading indicators, which signals turning points in the economy, is rising at a rate that has accurately indicated the end of every recession since the index began … Continue reading
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Tagged business, depression 2.0, economics, economy, life, money, recession
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$134 Billion Dollars—in One Suitcase!—Seized at the Italian-Swiss Border! I Smell a Movie Brewing!
According to Spiegel today, Italian customs officials stopped two people carrying, in one suitcase, $134 BILLION DOLLARS worth of bonds: The two men, reported to be more than 50 years old, were traveling by train from Italy to Switzerland on June … Continue reading
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