What’s the price of your lifestyle? Is your living room furnished in blood, or your wardrobe woven of pain and suffering? How about your body - are you fed with diminishment and despair?
Every piece of merchandise we buy costs a set amount of work, energy and resources. What we pay for it in cash may […]

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“It is impossible to describe any human action if one does not refer to the meaning the actor sees in the stimulus as well as in the end his response is aiming at.” –Ludwig von Mises
Economics - to the great dismay of economists - is merely a branch of psychology. It deals with individual behaviour […]

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I’ve been working for an engineering firm for over 6 years. The original company has been bought out and is now owned by a foreign firm residing in Germany. I might add, it’s owned by the Germans.
I came on board right when the whole transaction was taking place - 6 years ago. Since then, a […]

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Casinos and other forms of gambling are popping up in almost every state. Every other day you hear of a new Indian Tribe that is looking for recognition. Once they receive their recognition, investors look to back these people up and in turn a new Casino is born. People all over the United States are […]

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The following is a recent email I received; I thought I should respond to the list rather than to the individual because this situation is common:
“I’m a 52 year old guy who has been pretty active lifting weights for about 20 years but about a year ago I found myself in a situation where a […]

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We’ve helped a number of clients develop business plans and raise capital from “angel” investors, corporate entities and venture capitalists during the last 6-8 years. It’s always a daunting process that can be full of pitfalls and require a tremendous amount of work – but it can be done! Here is some perspective gleaned from […]

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Pocatello has another city touching it to the North on the other side of the FWY 86 named Chubbock, which is growing well. Pocatello is named after the famous Indian Chief of the Shoshone Tribe. Recently Forbes named Pocatello one of the Top 10 Small Metro Communities, which is a good call. Pocatello started as […]

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Let’s put the religious part of the debate for a moment, there will be time for that later. Currently there is much ethics debate from many different religious beliefs about cloning in both the scientific communities and the church. Enough in fact that the US Senate and Congress have already made a law against human […]

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Bosnia-Herzegovina (heretofore “Bosnia”) is an artificial polity with four, tangentially interacting, economies. Serbs, Croats and their nominal allies, the Bosniaks each maintain their own economy. The bloated, fractured, turf conscious, inefficient, and often corrupt presence of the international community, in the form of the Office of the High Representative, among others, constitutes the fourth - […]

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Some call it the “unofficial” or “informal” economy, others call it the “grey economy” but the old name fits it best: the “black economy”. In the USA “black” means “profitable, healthy” and this is what the black economy is. Macedonia should count its blessings for having had a black economy so strong and thriving to […]

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