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After a long dormancy I’m set to revive this blog. In the interim I walked across the country along the American Discovery Trail, speaking about the abundance of kindness, virtues of community and issues of humanity. I also observed and reported on kindness, community and humanity. I continued to do so on a separate blog [...]
This site will start building off of the “Pop’s Letters” series to portray other middle class lives in personal accounts and poetry. Please contact me at kirk(dot)sinclair(at)middleclassforum(dot)com if you would like to share your own middle class experiences or if, like me, you have material from a relative and you want to use this forum [...]
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A recent headline in the New York Times, “Health Insurers Making Record Profits as Many Postpone Care,” reveals the failings of a corporate capitalist economy. Let me first add the caveats that what we have in this country would be more accurately dubbed corporate socialism than corporate capitalism, and as with anything “failing” depends on [...]
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Covered in the previous post was the concept that since capitalism involves production then the normative goal of profits should be to perpetuate production. Using profit for capital improvements or simply to buy stuff encourages production; so, too, does investment into research and development. Using profits to invest into futures trading or even into companies [...]
Capitalism in its pure, unadulterated form, its operational definition before laissez faire economists and free market libertarians make adjustments and excuses to fit actual practice to the meaning, is private production that generates profits. I have covered the problems with “private” and “production” in a laissez faire, corporate economy. Now let’s examine profit, the capital [...]
Sorry for the lag time in posts. I’m involved in a very ambitious project which I will share with you shortly. To recap this series on capitalism: capitalism is private production that generates profits. Capitalism has existed at a small scale, but not at a large scale, despite the adjustments/excuses that grand economic scholars make [...]
Few economists would agree with the title of this post. Yet, as I often proudly proclaim, I’m no economist. I’m an empiricist, and as such I take seriously the literal meanings of words, or the basic models of concepts. There is disagreement even among economists over the meaning of capitalism; some of that disagreement is [...]
*ALC = Author’s Learning Curve, cut and pasted from my Goodreads blog. In the last post I stated I felt compelled to write Systems out of Balance. This begs the question “Why?” Though this is tangential to my author’s learning curve, explaining why I wrote the book helps to flush out my story. We were [...]
There is nothing in the Constitution that requires Supreme Court justices to be lawyers, but they all are. Many of them over the course of history were corporate lawyers; most came from backgrounds, inherited or acquired, of wealth and power. Thus it has been so since 1800 when the Supreme Court was first packed by [...]
Since I’m for neither party nor any fixed ideology, the results of the federal election if we discount the Supreme Court (more on that another time) was a desirable balanced split between different centralized factions. The Senate remained with the Democrats while the House went to the Republicans. Ah, but the President is a Democrat, [...]