Playing Hardball in Government and Politics

Latin America Latin America has had almost two hundred years of political independence to graduate to economic independence. It remains, however, a mixed area, wanting in local initiative, technologically patchy, entrepreneurially needy. This pattern of arrested development reflects the tenacious…

If we can learn anything from the history of economic development, it is that culture makes all the difference. (Here Max Weber was right on.) Witness the enterprise of expatriate minorities – the Chinese in East and Southeast Asia, Indians…

Why Industrial Revolution there and then? The question is really twofold. First, why and how did any country break through the crust of habit and conventional knowledge to this new mode of production? After all, history shows other examples of…

…do these Middle Eastern states need foreign investment? The best comparison is with sixteenth and seventeenth-century Spain, cursed by easy riches and led down the path of self-indulgence and laziness. So with the oil-rich.  They have traded black gold for…

To understand the  rise and fall of empires, one must always look as much at the forces and circumstances of the home country as at conditions in the field. When the Portuguese conquered the South Atlantic, they were in the…

  Sir Edward Coke  (1552-1634) After the custom of the times, Coke wrote his Reports in Norman French, with pleadings entered in Latin. But the several Prefaces were, happily, in English, though tradition was served by printing the Latin beside…

From War is Boring –  a Devastating Critique Lockheed’s F-117 stealth fighter was developed in a breakneck 30 months by a close-knit team of 50 engineers led by an experienced fighter designer named Alan Brown and overseen by seven government…

For the single best analysis of the Financial Crisis of 2008, please click on this PDF Link.  Article written by The Consumer Education Foundation and Wall Street Watch.org. Wall Street Watch Sold Out. Long Version  pdf The Financial Crisis of…

The DMCA’s principal innovation in the field of copyright is the exemption from direct and indirect liability of Internet service providers and other intermediaries. This exemption was adopted by the European Union in the Electronic Commerce Directive 2000. The Copyright…

  Niall Ferguson on Why Nations Fail How are we to explain the ultimate global imbalance which placed a minority  of mankind – at most a fifth – in such a position of material and political dominance over the rest…

In the future, will the People follow the court? Listen to Justice Stephen Breyer: Yale University: Uploaded on Mar 4, 2010 This is the second of two lectures Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer delivered at the Yale Law School on…

Physicist Geoffrey West has shown that there are both economies of scale (in infrastructure) and increasing returns to scale (in human creativity) from the process of urbanization:”Cities are..the cause of the good life. They are the centres of wealth creation,…

Andrew Haldane of the Bank of England:  

Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer Speaks on Supreme Court and Democracy University of Virginia School of Law  

Rabbinical Sources On Psak (legal decisions) השופט בישראל לא נגמר מאת גרשון פרקוף By Gershon Parkoff June 9, 2014 יא סיון תשע”ד Click here for PDF Format מקורות אלה יצאו לענות בצורה מאוד ראשונית על שלוש שאלות: 1. מה היחוד…

    June 11, 2012 6:30 PM EDT By Peter J Wallison Some of the key provisions of the Dodd-Frank Act of 2010, advertised as crucial to preventing a new financial crisis, won’t live up to the claims of its…

TREY GOWDY: PIN DROP SPEECH   וְיִכָּנְע֨וּ עַמִּ֜י אֲשֶׁ֧ר נִֽקְרָא־שְׁמִ֣י עֲלֵיהֶ֗ם וְיִֽתְפַּֽלְלוּ֙ וִֽיבַקְשׁ֣וּ פָנַ֔י וְיָשֻׁ֖בוּ מִדַּרְכֵיהֶ֣ם הָרָעִ֑ים וַאֲנִי֙ אֶשְׁמַ֣ע מִן־ הַשָּׁמַ֔יִם וְאֶסְלַח֙ לְחַטָּאתָ֔ם וְאֶרְפָּ֖א אֶת־אַרְצָֽם: דברי הימים ב פרק ז פסוק יד If my people, who are called by my…

[Recalling the words of  Alexander Hamilton, this site is devoted to the perpetuation of The United States of America and ] the existence of the union, the safety and welfare of the parts of which it is composed, the fate…

Julian Assange talks to John Pilger (FULL INTERVIEW)     Trey Gowdy GRILLS James Comey On Hillary Clinton Emails 7/7/16 Jason Chaffetz Digs in on Comey at Start of Capitol Hearing: ‘We Are Mystified and Confused’: FBI Director James Comey…

The Corporation is a legal entity which plays an important part in the Economic History of the West.  See Niall Ferguson’s dynamic presentation at this link: The Ascent of Money.  In watching these videos, it is important to remember that…