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  Do school districts spend less money on poor and minority students?

Priceonomics: Diamonds Are Bullshit

"Since coming to power in the country of 55m on the east coast of Africa in 2015, Mr Magufuli, nicknamed “the bulldozer” from his time ...

Heaven on Earth: The Rise and Fall of Socialism (2005) is a three-hour PBS documentary film.

I'm not a fan of Paul Krugman. His political bias keeps him from making objective economic analysis but in truth, it's his arrogance...

Back in 2011 I wrote blog entry on how the average cost of a four year degree had tripled in inflation adjusted dollars from 1980 to 2010. S...

It seems the famous 2010 paper "Growth in a Time of Debt" by Reinhart and Rogoff may have some serious calculation errors. You may...

Enough said. http://www.cato.org/blog/exposing-absurdity-washingtons-anti-sequester-hysteria

This past September, the Fraser Institute released it's 2012 Economic Freedom of the World report.  The annual report is an index of nat...

I saw this posted a few times recently on facebook: Spend enough time on facebook and you will find that this is a common attack agains...

A friend of mine posted this picture on his Facebook showing the distribution of wealth in the United States. The part of the graph I w...

Good information from the Congressional Budget Office regarding household income and federal taxes.  You can read the full report here  or j...

A friend posted this on his Facebook page which some people commented agreeingly with and others energetically against. Of course the ...

As I mentioned in a prior post I have been reading Why Nations Fail by Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson.  The following is an interesting ...

I have been reading Why Nations Fail by Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson.  The central premise of the book is that political institutions a...

I am sure that most have seen the images of Greece ablaze after the passing of the newest austerity package.  The depictions of a developed ...

Produced by Harding University in 1948 in it's efforts to counter the appeal of communism.

A friend of mine posted this on his facebook page.  I thought my response might be too long so I am making it into a blog entry.  The f...