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If We Treated Food the Way We Treated Housing

  • Economics
November 18, 2014July 17, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

Josh Barro, an economics columnist at the New York Times who used to be at Forbes, has written an interesting column on what the food marketplace would be like if we owned lifetime resaleable futures in our food instead of […]

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Agrarianism Without Agriculture?

  • Economics
August 8, 2014July 17, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

The ever-surprising Ralph Nader has recently been reading some paleo-conservative sources, and has written a book entitled Unstoppable; the Emerging Left-Right Alliance to Dismantle the Corporate State.  In the acknowledgements at the end, he specifically thanks Intercollegiate Studies Institute, a […]

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“Addicted to Inflation,” Indeed

  • Economics
July 25, 2014July 17, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

Paul Krugman has just issued a column charging conservatives with being “addicted to inflation,” not that they are pro-inflation necessarily but that they believe, and always believe, that hyper-inflation is imminent. Well, we had the real thing back in the […]

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Michael Lind’s New Paradigm, and the ‘End’ of Social Conservatism

  • Economics
July 6, 2014August 24, 2022
Author: Howard Ahmanson

Michael Lind has released a new essay titled “The Coming Realignment” in The Breakthrough Journal, one of the most innovative magazines around today.  He predicts that social conservatism as we know it will fade away, but that we will not […]

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Why I Won’t Support Unz’s Minimum Wage Initiative – And What I Will Support

  • Economics
January 24, 2014July 17, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

Some important people on the Right, starting with the maverick Ron Unz but apparently including such as Phyllis Schlafly and Bill O’Reilly, have come out in favor of a higher minimum wage, such as $12 per hour. The argument against […]

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Why The Dream Declined

  • Economics
April 7, 2013December 9, 2021
Author: Howard Ahmanson

The best single post on the decline of affordable housing that I have seen on one of my favorite sites, newgeography.com, is this by Roger Selbert.  He most succinctly explains the reasons why the American dream of subsidized home ownership [discussed […]

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Raise Everyone’s Taxes, Including Mine

  • Economics
December 19, 2012July 17, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

A number of millionaires are fine with their taxes being raised. I myself could live with slightly higher taxes, though I don’t like the idea of going higher than the Clinton era levels on federal taxes. The Clinton-Gingrich era was […]

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Issue of Hybridization between Philanthropy and Investment

  • Economics,
  • Miscellaneous
June 28, 2012August 16, 2019
Author: Howard Ahmanson

Another approach by David Bornstein to the issue of hybridization between philanthropy and investment from my recent post Philanthropy and Investment: The Distinctions Begin to Blur. Related: “For Ambitious Nonprofits, Capital to Grow” by David Bornstein at NYTimes.com

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Philanthropy and Investment: The Distinctions Begin to Blur

  • Economics,
  • Miscellaneous
June 12, 2012August 16, 2019
Author: Howard Ahmanson

I grew up believing that ‘philanthropy’ and ‘investment’ were two distinct things and not to be confused. They both serve the public, but in different ways; investment in business by [hopefully] producing worthy products at enough profit to make a […]

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Washington D.C.: The Center of the Universe: And Who to blame?

  • Economics
April 7, 2012December 9, 2021
Author: Howard Ahmanson

Joel Kotkin on Newgeography.com writes about the nearly recession-proof nature of Washington, D. C. and its metro area.  It is a city of government and the mandarin classes, and they never go out of style.  But it seems to me that […]

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