Jack Burns Lives!

So I’m in the pool today, doing laps in a large lane on the edge of the pool. Sharing with three older ladies doing their water wing workout, which is basically just floating and rotating your arms every once in a while as you gossip and discuss world affairs.
The topic du jour is socialism [...]

Who really thought Obama’s stimulus plan was going to work? Even Obama supporter Simon Johnson, former chief economist at the International Monetary Fund, and now teaching global economics and management at MIT’s Sloan School of Management is a huge doubter. During an interview with Bill Moyer’s, he stated that he hadn’t seen any evidence that [...]

For years, I’ve held the believe that growth capitalism, unbridled growth, growth without any biological or geophysical limits, was at the core of our environmental crisis. But at the root of that problem, is private ownership of land.
Too radical for you? Well, other systems have been successfully managed on this planet for thousands of [...]