“You know, it occurs to me that the best way to hurt rich people is by turning them into poor people.” – Billy Ray Valentine Blockchain technology has upended traditional finance. To outsiders, take your pick of cryptocurrency and it appears you are doing nothing more than pulling the handle on a slot machine. The […]
Be Wary of Bad Philosophy Using propaganda with half-baked ideas, politicians tempt us with promises of financial or physical security. They can never deliver those. Worse, the price they ask is your freedom. By Dan Smith “Power tends to corrupt”, Lord Acton tells us. When you give away the power to run your own life […]
Energy Firms Hold New York Taxpayers Hostage; Cuomo Pays the Ransom by Dan Smith If energy policy makes your eyes roll back into your head, I get it. And if all the regulations, bans, subsidies, taxes combined with all the different forms of energy leave you confused, I get that, too. It’s likely by design. […]