Just a counter thought for this thread: if you are a libertarian who believes in a business owners "right to discriminate" then I think you have to support a universities right to do the same vis a vis affirmative action. It would be a different matter id such quotas were in place due to the...
Am I the only one who finds the silence from the white house deafening? He is gonna protect the whole world from scary Muslims, when he cant even protect his own citizens in his own nations capital from foriegn government thugs that you know in advance are gonna be there? Doesnt even have the...
funny there is no mention of the context it was used in.. While I am a firm believer in freedom of speech a university has the right to fire staff that they feel dont contribute to a learning environment. From the article posted the professor could have said somethig innocuous as "in other...
For 90% of people trying to time the market is a fools errand. the best plan is to come up with an asset allocation plan based on your time horizon and risk tolerance and re-balance periodically. If you insist on trying to play market swings you should temporarily adjust your weightings, but you...
recent media coverage has the government denying all of this.http://www.cbc.ca/m/news/politics/tories-deny-plan-to-use-hate-crime-laws-against-israel-boycotters-1.3069723
Seems to contradict earlier statement. Maybe they are testing the water for the public response? The governments position is...
somehow this altcoin managed to get a front page article on cnbc.com. Does anyone have a real info on this coin or who is behind it? I haven't read anything that would make me care about this more then the other 100 alts out there, yet somehow it gets MSM coverage? Whats the deal...
the point of bitcoin is to have a currency outside of the control of the current financial elite. I and many others see value in this and thus btc has value. If you dont see value in this feel free to take your ball and go home, that's the beauty of the free market.
I also reject the idea that falling prices necessitates a falling wage. If the price decline is due to an increase in the supply then the wage can remain the same and the cost per unit will still be less. If the price decline is caused by something other then an increase in supply then the...