"Well, falsifying research is not a criminal offense. It is wrong. Take, for example, tobacco companies who did suppress information for a long time on the lethal effect of what they were producing. There have finally been some sentences, very light sentences. Corporate crime is simply not punished. White collar crimes are barely punished. There ( Read more... )

The truth is, that even the control of oil is not nearly as critical to the US as maintaining it’s continued dominance in the exchange of oil in greenbacks. If Iran is allowed to open its oil bourse (exchange) in March and openly compete with the US’s monopoly on trading oil in petrodollars, the central banks across the globe will dump hundreds of ( Read more... )

Reading this article inspired me to read more about economics in general.

And I have to say, economics is crazy. I took ECON010 back in the day (first semester freshman year), and I found it only mildly interesting. However, just by reading several different articles from Wikipedia, I'm enthralled. I vaguely remember bits and pieces of ( Read more... )