Want a tax break Corporation X or Y? Well, what have you done for the American economy lately to justify it? That’s the thinking of Chris Macke, an investment strategist for over twenty-five years with major corporations in this country. He’s starting Solutionomics, a non-partisan platform dedicated to persuading Congress of more innovative solutions for …
Ron Paul rose out of obscurity as a Texas Congressman to be embraced politically by a diverse coalition, including young and old. He also ran for President three times, twice as a Republican and once as a Libertarian. Now, out of elective politics, he has established an Institute for Peace and Prosperity. That organization is …
The escalating cost of a college degree has so many ripple effects. Parents jeopardize retirement savings and students defer many adult investments, in homes and family, in order to pay college loans back. This phenomenon is relatively new. Many of us can remember coming out of college with very modest paybacks required. So what …
So Much Nonsense Out There, So Little Time…. Alan Tonelson https://alantonelson.wordpress.com/ One key reason that Donald Trump now occupies the White House was his clarion call during the campaign for an ‘America First’ trade policy in order to rejuvenate mill and factory towns long forgotten. Americatrendspodcast calls on Alan Tonelson, eminent trade expert, host …
If we all want love, why is there such much conflict in our most intimate relationships? How do we choose who we mate with–and how do we lose them? Author David Buss began mulling these questions when he first write ‘The Evolution of Desire’ in 1994 and since that time, the study of human mating …
The authors of a book on the subject tell you how to stop hidden anger from spoiling your relationships, career and happiness.
There’s a non-partisan reform coalition called ‘Common Good’ that offers Americans a new way to look at law and government. They have some creative ideas about restoring common sense to all three branches of government. Their key principle is simple, but powerful. People, not rules, should prevail when assessing the effectiveness of laws and regulations. …
Our podcast takes an unconventional look at whether the physical barrier that is being proposed to divide the United States from Mexico might be re-examined and found to have any aesthetic or redeeming value from an architectural standpoint. Ronald Rael an associate professor of Architecture at Berkeley lobs ‘an artistic and intellectual hand grenade’ …
Esteemed economist, Laurence Kotlikoff, can hold two seemingly contradictory views at one time. While he believes that the fiscal gap of the U.S. federal government–sum of all obligations on our books–is about 15 times the published number of $20 trillion, he’s not shy about trying to help individual Americans ‘Get What’s Yours’ from the complex …
Dr. Mark W. Hendrickson Fellow, Economic & Social Policy Facebook founder, Mark Zuckerberg, got much attention for his commencement address at Harvard University(you know the place where he dropped out) suggesting that America needed to adopt a ‘universal basic income'(UBI) for its citizens. While the concept is being floated in different parts of the world, …