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Madoff’s List of made-off’s

Charles Ponzi

List of Madoff’s presumed victims

My favorite is the fact that his lawyer is on that list. He’s really in trouble.

There is far too little being paid to this issue. Genuine fraud is actually immoral, unlike getting paid a lot of money. I really don’t understand why people get upset about people who earn a [...]

YouTube: I Want My Bailout Money

Warning: Not entirely family friendly, but far more family freindly than the policy.
HatTip to Jerry Holsworth for [...]

Atlas Shrugged, 2008 style

The art for a 1999 postage stamp.

This commentary from the Wall Street Journal reflects some of what I’ve been feeling in the past few weeks. The people have gone to the polls and elected themselves a social architect. In the book Atlas Shrugged, the author details how a relatively small economic downturn balooned into the [...]

Canada Considers Massive 'Internet Tax'

Google actively lobbying against it.Michael Geist describes the situation in detail.

Basically, a few policy groups are asking the legislature for some laws that have applied to media content before the Internet, to be applied to Internet content. It makes intuitive sense to me until I realize that the government should have no right to regulate media [...]

Capitalism 2.0?

I’ve heard a great deal of talk about this in the wake of this ‘crisis,’ and it troubles me. I commented on the linked article, my thoughts also available here.

One of the basic tenents of philosophy is that while one cannot prove the existence of others, the act of proof is sufficient evidence to assume one’s [...]