Adam K. posted an article on The Equanimist - Feb 8, 2012, 2:01 pm
While the Equanimist has not been updated in quite sometime, it is not abandoned... and, in response to Google's new privacy policy, I am working to close all my Google accounts, so it's moving. Future updates will be posted at http://equanimist.wordpress.com/. But it's probably better to...
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Adam K. posted an article on The Equanimist - Jun 24, 2011, 1:03 pm
Note: I did this series of cartoons quite a while ago and did not intend to publish them as such. That said, within a context of current events, the brief outline presented here is good food for thought. So I've put words to them... Expect exploration of these issues in pieces to come. Ma...
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Adam K. posted an article on Dog-Meat-Home Companion - Mar 24, 2011, 9:56 am
I think of bankers, bond holders and insurers who would tell presidents to pass “austerity measures” so that they (these creditors) can get paid by populaces money that they must know they aren’t really due because the funds did not exist among their counterparties. But you don’t have to. Th...
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Adam K. posted an article on Dog-Meat-Home Companion - Jan 21, 2011, 3:30 pm
That President Barack Obama does not suddenly give GE business against which he had come out previously (as reported by Bloomberg here) when he has just announced that Jeffrey Immelt (GE’s CEO) will replace Former Fed Chairman Paul Volcker (an economist) as head of his "outside" economic advisory ...
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Adam K. posted an article on Dog-Meat-Home Companion - Nov 30, 2010, 12:07 pm
President Barack Obama’s team is reported to pursue criminal action against a man who published material embarrassing to the US and its allies.Viola Gienger and Tony Capaccio of Bloomberg write in Clinton Condemns WikiLeaks Release as ‘Attack’ on U.S. Efforts, "U.S. Attorney General Eric Hold...
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Adam K. posted an article on Dog-Meat-Home Companion - Nov 23, 2010, 11:39 am
Busy. New posts coming soon. Wrote some stuff lately that's suddenly still more relevant. If you missed the following you might check them out in the meantime: "Changes in Public Policy Lack Immediacy" (Oct. 25) "Think' 'Bout My Constitution" (Sept. 3)
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Adam K. posted an article on Dog-Meat-Home Companion - Nov 6, 2010, 10:58 am
Related to the idea that Corporations cannot be considered as individuals because corporate officers/employees are rarely if ever held to account is the issue of credit history. It seems to me that Credit Reporters fail to capture an accurate picture of financial history, while same gather and ...
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Adam K. posted an article on The Equanimist - Oct 31, 2010, 2:42 pm
Compromise is the result of a fight between opposing forces.            Imagine two boxes that contain agendas. They’re butted up one against the other. On either side of the boxes is a guy. The two guys push the boxes toward each other with all their might. If, on a level playing field...
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Adam K. posted an article on The Equanimist - Oct 29, 2010, 8:53 am
While I continue to work on a new post that will go up on this page, I've been posting at the Dog-Meat-Home Companion page... Ideally, the Equanimist is not just this page but consists of the Equanimist, Dog-Meat-Home Companion, News Blog and Not a Joiner--each of which has its own flavor. I just d...
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Adam K. posted an article on Dog-Meat-Home Companion - Oct 29, 2010, 8:40 am
            The financial crisis, which I hope will be the end of it (but fear will turn out to be just the beginning), was seeded in the New Deal and came to a head with the civil rights and women’s liberation movements. Think of the demise of the union, rising income inequality and massiv...
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Adam K. posted an article on Dog-Meat-Home Companion - Oct 25, 2010, 10:54 am
Abstract: Modern reporters (most of whom take editorializing to be part of their job description) seem to think that some change in a variable that impacts daily life should produce immediate, obvious, corresponding changes in daily life. There is no justification for this belief. Further, erroneous...
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Adam K. posted an article on Dog-Meat-Home Companion - Oct 22, 2010, 3:24 pm
            State schools have a duty to maximize potential of available human capacity because it is in the nation’s interest to get kids ready to go out into the real world and perform real duties.            In an effort to get kids ready for the real world, no position seems ...
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Adam K. posted an article on Dog-Meat-Home Companion - Oct 12, 2010, 12:34 pm
The Tea Party reminds me a lot of the story of a young man who volunteered to be food (immortalized in Rammstein's “Mein Teil”). Here’s a link to the Rotenburg Cannibal’s wiki. If you’re not familiar with the story it goes something like this:A guy named Armin Meiwes advertised in search o...
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Adam K. posted an article on The Equanimist - Sep 24, 2010, 8:40 pm
When money represents discrete fractions of actualized human potential adjusted for an instantaneous estimation of future productivity increase, to account for net outflow of money as the US trade deficit ballooned in a continual expansion of the US-dollar denominated market, more US dollars were ne...
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Adam K. posted an article on Dog-Meat-Home Companion - Sep 3, 2010, 8:44 pm
The Bill of Rights unequivocally grants every US citizen (every adult male, at any rate) the right to keep and bear arms. Amendment II. “A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.” ...
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Adam K. posted an article on The Equanimist - Aug 16, 2010, 4:24 am
I Where do stewards who hoard currency (incentivization to put people to productive work) think that average people are going to get money? Where do average people get money? Can they print it? How does flow and use of money (economic engine) work? Can socioeconomy (presently) function w...
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Adam K. posted an article on The Equanimist - Jun 10, 2010, 4:24 pm
Work is not used to put people to money (so long as “excess” of any product can be created) but money is used to put people to work. Fiat currency is not a commodity but a tool. That it can be used as currency of actualized human potential is its primary virtue. Otherwise, we might as well use ...
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Adam K. posted an article on Dog-Meat-Home Companion - Jun 4, 2010, 3:15 pm
Nevermind that anti-Semitism is not dead nor ever will be: there will always be somebody whom I hate, and I will have some enemy. Robust roots in 1.) perceived need and/or expediency and 2.) fear of Jewish practically guarantee ongoing distraction by round condemnation of Israel. But, same condemnat...
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Adam K. posted an article on The Equanimist - Sep 19, 2009, 7:23 pm
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Adam K. posted an article on The Equanimist - Sep 19, 2009, 7:23 pm
1. ‘The proof is in the pudding’ Relatively-high, steady unemployment is not compatible with civil society when a relatively acquisitive, motivated people confront social programs that only reinforce hardship and success. Now, it appears that there are more US Americans who would work than the...
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Adam K. posted an article on Dog-Meat-Home Companion - Aug 18, 2009, 4:37 am
The freemarket capitalists are going to have a difficult time getting old (and, if the foregoing generation is suffering now it is likewise): they have practiced, taught – inculcated – their spawn with the notion that might makes right – whether individually or as a product of some tyranny of ...
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Adam K. posted an article on The Equanimist - Aug 9, 2009, 6:28 pm
Dear Readers,I have found much to rewrite in "Part I." -- Little to change, but much to elaborate upon and, in the course of things, I have embarked upon a total rewrite of same. So, "Part III.C." &c. will have to wait a little while longer... I don't think anybody is in a rush -- we're still deflec...
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Adam K. posted an article on The Equanimist - Aug 9, 2009, 6:28 pm
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Adam K. posted an article on The Equanimist - Jul 18, 2009, 4:08 pm
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Adam K. posted an article on The Equanimist - Jul 18, 2009, 4:08 pm
While I continue to conceive this ongoing untitled series (among other things) I think this -- a week during which banks (e.g., Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan Chase) reported extraordinary profits while ordinary citizens, who footed the bill, are jobless and homeless -- this is a perfect time to repost ...
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Adam K. posted an article on The Equanimist - Jun 17, 2009, 3:22 pm
B. Fleshing out the Case for Determined Will (also, "You" are not the "you" you think you are.) The universe came into being. Very probably (it seems) there was a “big bang” at which time individuality first became possible. Expansion. Expansion. Expansion. Accretion. Collisions. &c. Many of us...
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Adam K. posted an article on The Equanimist - Jun 5, 2009, 11:05 am
A. Mutual ExclusivityLike “everything”, belief in freewill – the singular ability (generally attributed to “higher” animals and their familiars) to think, decide and act irrespective some inexorable extra-personal causative agent or agents (i.e., responsibly) – belief in freewill is over...
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Adam K. posted an article on The Equanimist - Apr 19, 2009, 7:02 pm
"You say it is the good cause that hallows even war. I say unto you: It is the good war that hallows any cause." – NietzscheHere, I would like (desperately) to write something else; that a man or woman is worth some moral equivalent in dollars; or, at least, that human dignity is valuable and prod...
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Adam K. posted an article on The Equanimist - Apr 6, 2009, 11:37 pm
Originally published here, at the Equanimist, 17 Sept 2008. Rewritten and reposted in response to continued deterioration of the US labor market (another 600+k jobs lost in March) and other recent news, including (but in no way limited to) this debacle covered by the Christian Science Monitor rela...
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Adam K. posted an article on The Equanimist - Mar 23, 2009, 11:14 pm
While others seem very suddenly and insanely positive (see, for example, Jim Cramer's change of heart), I remain unconvinced.Economic fundamentals are largely unchanged. Transparency is still a pipe dream. The "solution" to mark-to-market accounting may be a good broom (with which to sweep the mess ...
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Adam K. posted an article on The Equanimist - Mar 21, 2009, 12:53 pm
The natural world!O, to be better by fine margins!How will we know who is best?We will fight. Winner, take all.Drop what you are doing for the competition. The first place finisher will get a gold medal ($953/oz.); second place, a silver medal ($13.73/oz.); third place, bronze (something greater tha...
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Adam K. posted an article on The Equanimist - Dec 17, 2008, 10:25 pm
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Adam K. posted an article on Dog-Meat-Home Companion - Dec 31, 1969, 7:00 pm
Does Chinese Premiere Wen Jiabao really believe that the US would sacrifice its position to the Chinese? The US cannot possibly act unilaterally to stabilize the USD against other currencies in this environment. In fact, it seems silly that other countries are keeping their currencies so strong. (�...
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Adam K. posted an article on Dog-Meat-Home Companion - Dec 31, 1969, 7:00 pm
We reward some gifts. The best speller in the world, for example, is hard pressed to capitalize on his or her ability. The fastest runner, however, might land a high-paying endorsement contract. So, I guess, you should be born a runner not a speller; n'est-ce pas? Within the basic gift hierarchy th...
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Adam K. posted an article on Dog-Meat-Home Companion - Dec 31, 1969, 7:00 pm
Why do we assume that people who demonstrate extraordinary capacity to amass personal power are naturally fit to lead? It’s like buying the fastest combustion-engine-powered car in order to get the best gas mileage. Who amasses wealth? Wealth is not typically foist upon anybody who doesn’t inhe...
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Adam K. posted an article on Dog-Meat-Home Companion - Dec 31, 1969, 7:00 pm
*Includes eBay response of 09/30/2009*Includes reply to eBay email of 09/30/2009You might have noticed that eBay does not have a filter to keep Nazi paraphernalia off the site. eBay actually has terms that allow the sale of same. But, you may not be aware that eBay indiscriminately peddles the mate...
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Adam K. posted an article on Dog-Meat-Home Companion - Dec 31, 1969, 7:00 pm
A week after "Cooperation for Peace, Justice and Progress: Package of proposals by the Islamic Republic of Iran for Comprehensive and Constructive Negotiations," leaked on ProPublica.org and rockets launched from Lebanon struck Israel; and, one day after the AP revealed that a secret IAEA report sta...
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Adam K. posted an article on Dog-Meat-Home Companion - Dec 31, 1969, 7:00 pm
Certain individuals seem naturally inclined to acts of violence; however, satisfied populations don’t appear to tend to protest and crime. Is it reasonable to assume, then, that the threat of protest and crime rises in some proportion to dissatisfaction? In a “free” society, like the US, the...
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Adam K. posted an article on Dog-Meat-Home Companion - Dec 31, 1969, 7:00 pm
I am of the opinion that there is a grain of truth in even the “vilest” aspersions – that, for example, a curve representing the appearance and strength of some character of some population skews one way or another on some scale – and that there isn’t anything wrong (i.e., morally reprehen...
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Adam K. posted an article on Dog-Meat-Home Companion - Dec 31, 1969, 7:00 pm
(AKA, Policy makers are writing to the wrong crowd; and, one-size-fits-all policy is not the right way to go: The days of dissemblance and obfuscation – a sort of intellectual wild wild west – must come to an end.)At my alma mater, there were a lot of smart people. I was, perhaps, (and I don’t...
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Adam K. posted an article on Dog-Meat-Home Companion - Dec 31, 1969, 7:00 pm
Continued slavish devotion to fear and greed – the impossible quest for perfect safety and luxury will undo centuries of Western progress – whatever the very bright people who got us into this mess would have us believe. The problem is not that there’s too much money floating around, too much ...
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