Attention Span: Our National Education Crisis, Part Four

Read Part One Here Read Part Two Here Read Part Three Here   Fallacy Number 4: “Balance” means balancing work with entertainment. Today’s adults don’t usually find out what really hard work is until they graduate and have to support a family. The average person supporting a family in modern America puts in over fifty hours […]

My Experience at the Utah State Legislature: Week One, Initiatives

My first week at the Legislature was enlightening and eventful. Mind you, I am not a novice to the process (at least on paper) and I have been teaching law making, Roberts Rules, participating and running nearly a 100 simulations, etc. for years, but I have never actually been in the trenches day after day, so […]

The Reality of Truth

Do you want to know the truth of things? Or are you happy with the prevailing status quo? Do you want to know the truth of things, even if it goes against the status quo or proves you wrong? This can be a real dilemma of conscience —to be unafraid to discover that we have […]

Attention Span: Our National Education Crisis, Part One

Click Here For Part Two   I have a number of different topics to cover over the next couple of months.  I will post most of these in the form of series.  Sometimes, as these series can be multi-parts (as many as ten), I will introduce a new series before a given series is completed. […]

Does Anybody Understand This Stuff?: Part 3, Greek and Roman Economics – A Thumbnail Sketch of 4,000 Years of Economics

Read Part One Here Read Part Two Here Read Part Four Here Greek and Roman Economics (700B.C.-400A.D.) Although modern economics are generally discussed from four polarizing positions; Radical, Keynesian, Neo-Liberal, and Austrian (all of which we will cover later), virtually all aspects of our modern discussion of economics were first articulated by the Greeks, including […]

Does Anybody Understand This Stuff?, Part One: Deflation

  Read Part Two Here This is one of several blogs in a series called Does Anybody Understand this stuff?, concerning economics and our future. There is no way to honor the blogging rule of 600 word posts when we are talking about the economy, so I will try to keep them short but no […]