Ben Stein’s article in the New York Times Wall Street, Run Amok highlights one of the core reasons why our financial system is not working: investment bankers are incentivized to leverage themselves to the sky; the more debt they take, the more their upside from structured deals and the more compensation they get, with the [...]
Is it me or did anyone else notice the extreme bias of the media against Barak Obama this Sunday in all news shows? Whether it’s just a media circus game to extend the political party with a longer nomination fight, or whether it was Senator Clinton’s machine that appealed to the media establishment, it is [...]
With growing human population and consumption, our planet is already strained with water scarcity, fossil fuel scarcity, food scarcity, mineral scarcity, and environmental degradation. Is the big picture that humans will eventually kill each other to compete for scarce resources? Let’s see. We are now 6.7 billion people, and growing. Billions are rising out of [...]
My sister had a really interesting observation on the modern forms of bondage that we experience, relating to the spiritual aspects of Passover… I wanted to share with you a perspective that I have been pondering upon regarding passover, which has to do with Spiritual aspects of this celebration, and which go beyond traditional interpretations. [...]
The most humble eat grains and seeds. They don’t have anything else. They live off the earth. The poor eat refined starches, rice, beans. They can’t afford anything else. The luxury many strive for is perceived to be meat. Then the cycle gets completed. As people learn more about nutrition and the environment, they start [...]
It sounds so crazy. With growing climate change, planet earth as we know it is on the brink of a radical transformation that could endanger the very survival of the human race, if not at best require the most painful and radical adjustments for us all. Why then would any rational human being want to [...]
British Ex-Jihadists are changing course and not only renouncing terrorism, but organizing themselves to counteract it. The apt term for people who wrap themselves under the the mantle of Islam to justify inhuman acts of terror that are inconsistent with the religion’s core tenets is as pseudo-Islamic terrorists. Here is an example of people that [...]
Something serious is going on when rice is rationed by the largest retailer in the world in the wealthiest country in the history of the world. My team member Phil caught this story about it! Wal-Mart’s Sam’s Club chain limits rice purchase By Andria Cheng, MarketWatch Last update: 4:17 p.m. EDT April 23, 2008 NEW [...]
When I wrote Re-Imagining Ourselves in Our Fallen Heroes, I was inspired after starting to read the first couple paragraphs from Taylor Branch’s op-ed in the Sunday New York Times’ Week in Review and his comment that "more than once, the dominant culture has turned history upside Down to make itself feel more comfortable." After [...]
It is undeniable that AIPAC has tilted to the right over the last 10 years, almost hijacked by hawkish constituents. Perhaps then the birth of JStreet is an unavoidable outcome. My concern though is that now AIPAC’s supporters will react by tilting it further to the right as a reaction, and JStreet will tilt further [...]