Rakkur Spoilers ahoy! Rick Grimes is the leader of a group of survivors in the post-apocalyptic world of the walking dead. I say the word “leader” because I do not mean King, Monarch, President, or any other title that would designate that Rick holds political… Read More »The Walking Dead and Negan’s State
Rakkur It is with a very emotional and heavy heart that we look upon the recent and tragic killings in Colorado as another instance in a legacy of public shootings. One particularly terrifying property of these shootings is that the participants are generally random and… Read More »How Free Societies Deal With the Problems of Mass, Indiscriminate Shootings
Rakkur I have worked as a web developer and a computer enthusiast for most of my life. The ability to harness a machine’s memory, where bits of data can be stored and retrieved at later time, always amazed me. It’s invention and production unlocked many… Read More »Web Development and Intellectual Property
Rakkur It has often been said to me that public services are necessary because they prevent monopolies from coming into town, claiming up the most important resources which people survive upon, and then selling those goods at ridiculous prices or refusing to sell at all.… Read More »The Lone Well of the Village
Rakkur A new way of trading has emerged in the form of a digital money. The actual product is to be unnamed in this broadcast, but this currency is now being used to purchase things from a growing number of internet businesses and even local… Read More »Digital Currencies
Rakkur A new way of trading has emerged in the form of a digital money. The actual product is to be unnamed in this broadcast, but this currency is now being used to purchase things from a growing number of internet businesses and even local… Read More »Digital Currency challenges the Federal Reserve Monopoly
Rakkur There was a recent speech in which Jesse Jackson, Democratic Congressman from Illinois, focused on a recent technological advancement concerning flat, touchscreen monitors which have computers and which allow users to go online, read books, run applications, and otherwise increase their enjoyment and productivity.… Read More »How do we actually kill jobs?
Marvel Studios, Jon Favreau Far too often in entertainment, government provided security is shown to be the harbinger of order and peace. Shows like Law and Order, Cops, Dragnet, CSI, NYPD Blue, and many others portray the virtue of government provided security/arbitration services as the… Read More »Iron Man 2
Rakkur I think a lot of the misunderstandings about the market and human behavior stem from a misconception of what’s called the “paradox of exchange”. This paradox has puzzled economists throughout the ages. Adam Smith and all the classical economists, incredibly important as their contributions… Read More »The Paradox of Trade
Rakkur “It is true that we cannot depend on government alone to create jobs or long-term growth. But at this particular moment..only government can break the cycle that is crippling our economy.” ~Barack Obama I read this in my paper this morning, and I am… Read More »Can the Government create jobs?