The Neuroscience of Fraud
New York Magazine discusses the conflict between Ayn Rand’s childhood in Bolshevik Russia and her unforgiving views about the eminence of indiscriminate capitalism. Newsweek points to new research from UC Davis identifying the area of the brain (the anterior cingulate cortex) responsible for justifying our conflicting beliefs. And a Goldman executive defends income inequality as [...]
OMG! It’s the “Fall of the Republic!”
I suppose Adam Smith, Alexander Hamilton, Roger B. Taney, Ronald Reagan, George W. Bush, Bernie Madoff, and the Dallas Cowboys had absolultely nothing to do with it.
Free Press: Spend $44 Billion of Stimulus on Broadband
Usually, when we think about how we are going to use stimulus money to improve infrastructure, we think, “roads, schools and buildings.” Broadband is usually only a secondary concern. But this mindset is wrong. Improving broadband penetration rates in underserved areas is the key component to accomplishing all of the other infrastructure improvements that President-elect [...]
