The Hollowing Out of America There have always been two Americas: the rural, onetime agricultural America; and the urban, once the-center-of-manufacturing America. In 1900, America was a rural country with a rural-to-urban population ratio of 60:40. By 1950, the country had become urbanized with a ratio...
Insider Trading Everyone’s doing it …, right? Of course not. Everyone knows that it’s against the law to trade on inside information … right? And that stealing mis-appropriating material, nonpublic information for personal gain will get you into deep legal trouble … right? Everyone...
Government Regulation Is government regulation good for America … or bad for America? The answer, of course, is that sometimes it’s good and sometimes it’s bad. How can you tell the difference? The goal of regulation is to both ensure public safety and create a clearly-defined set of operational...
The Essence of a Meritocracy It’s about our children … your kids, Marty. Something’s got to be done about them (paying respects to Back to the Future, Part II). Meritocracy has defined America’s success. It’s been the cornerstone of the American Dream. In order...
The Canary in the Gold Mine It wasn’t until 1913 that miners were first urged to bring caged canaries down into coal mines. They became the early 20th Century’s biological early warning system for detecting the presence of carbon monoxide, a deadly killer of coal...
