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Showing posts with label American economy. Show all posts

Showing posts with label American economy. Show all posts

Thursday, December 13, 2012

Post No. 185: There are 4,389 Reasons the U.S. Economy is Suffering; Let’s Focus on the Top 28

© 2012, the Institute for Applied Common Sense According to some, those of us who are Baby Boomers are far better "educated" a...

Sunday, October 7, 2012

Post No. 178a: Why the Presidential Debate Last Week was a Waste of Our Time

Why a waste of time? Because the candidates debated all around the issues that matter. We will not be able to solve problems in this countr...

Monday, March 21, 2011

Post No. 162: An Ass-Whupping Wuz ‘Bout da Take Place

© 2011, the Institute for Applied Common Sense We’ve been spending quite a bit of time on the bus recently. Apart from saving money, be...

Sunday, March 13, 2011

Post No. 161: Back in the Day When a Man was Worth Something

© 2011, the Institute for Applied Common Sense For years we thought that we learned more by talking more. However, after much pain and d...

Tuesday, March 1, 2011

Post No. 159: Are You Tired of Your Bathroom?

© 2011, the Institute for Applied Common Sense Potential college grads do not need experts to tell them that they have some difficult cho...

Tuesday, June 9, 2009

Post No. 122a: Re-Posting of Post No. 90: Making Use of the Current Financial Mess

We frequently re-visit earlier posts to determine their continuing applicability. In February of this year, we generated a piece entitled ...

Monday, February 9, 2009

Post No. 85: Why We Suspect, To Our Dismay, That “Whatever” Our Leaders Devise Will Not Work

© 2009, the Institute for Applied Common Sense Unlike apparently most citizens, we haven't, here at the Institute, read the most recent ...

Post 84b: Article of Interest: We Still Say a Country Needs to Know Its Limitations

Do you really have any confidence, or even just some hope, that our government has the ability to address serious problems in society? Take...

Saturday, January 17, 2009

Post No. 73: An Opportunity Lost (Well, Sorta)

Copyright 2009, The Institute for Applied Common Sense This one is a tad tricky for us. Then again, we should all have some degree of ambiva...

Sunday, December 21, 2008

Post No. 71: Our Responsibility as Citizens

© 2008, the Institute for Applied Common Sense In response to two of our recent posts, dealing with same-sex marriage and abortion, one of...

Tuesday, November 25, 2008

Post No. 68a: Outgoing Bush Administration and Incoming Obama Administration Working Together

The link below will take our readers to an article of interest appearing in today's electronic edition of the New York Times. The artic...

Saturday, October 18, 2008

Post 55a: WATCH NOW Panel Discussion on Economy: Tom Friedman and Others

Panel Discussion on the Economy with Thomas Friedman, Barbara Ehrenreich, and Michelle Singletary. On C-Span2 Book TV, right now as this e-...

Saturday, October 11, 2008

Post 53a: Understanding the Word Swaps and their Role in this Financial Mess

Earlier this week, we mentioned that several former CEOs of AIG Insurance testified before the House of Representatives. During the course o...

Friday, October 10, 2008

Post No. 53: Are We Really Interested in Crafting a Solution to Our Financial Mess?

© 2008, The Institute for Applied Common Sense Washington, we have a problem. Now, I am neither an economist nor a rocket scientist, I am ju...

Monday, October 6, 2008

Post No. 50a: One of the Better Political Cartoons of the Year

Compliments of Dana Summers of the Orlando Sentinel http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/opinion/columnists/orl-summers-cartgallery,0,5845995...

Monday, September 29, 2008

Post No. 49: Finally, Someone Explains Something That We Can Understand

I was fortunate enough to receive a decent education at some decent educational institutions. I also took corporate, business, accounting, ...

Sunday, September 28, 2008

Post 47b: First Draft of Economic Rescue Package Released at 5 pm EDST

View the first draft. Still to be finalized. http://www.foxbusiness.com/story/markets/economy/draft-economic-rescue-package/

Saturday, September 27, 2008

Post 47a: If You’re Willing to Momentarily Laugh about Our Current Financial Crisis

We, here at the Institute for Applied Common Sense , generally try to avoid cynicism, since our ultimate goal is to encourage the developmen...

Friday, September 26, 2008

Post No. 47: Needed - Attitude Adjustment Following Meltdown

© 2008, The Institute for Applied Common Sense Much has been made in recent days regarding a prospective leader’s ability to multi-task. ...

Post No. 46a: A Somewhat Different Analysis of What Led to Our Current Economic Situation

Article of Interest from Edge.org Economic Dis-Equilibrium: Can You Have Your House and Spend It Too? by George Dyson http://www.edge.org/3r...

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Inspector Clouseau: Although there are other Fellows (namely the Logistician, the Laughingman, and the Optimizer) affiliated with the Institute for Applied Common Sense, I write the majority of the articles posted here. I am someone who was fortunate enough to obtain a decent education and to travel extensively. I had all of the good breaks and luck in the world, and still managed to muck up and disappoint others who invested their faith in me. Although I am obviously not a role model for others, I wish to share my insight (and that of the other Fellows) and experience so that others might not travel down the wandering, non-goal orientated, complicated path which I traveled. I am an individual who discovered, far too late in life, my purpose in the universe, and something about which I could feel passionate. I do not want to see our youth, particularly college students, have to wait so long. Finally, and perhaps most importantly, I am someone who accepts 110% responsibility for all that has occurred to me, and does not think of himself as a victim.

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