What’s wrong with people: greed, selfishness, violence, wars, lying, and all the rest, is just the over-the-cliff edge of human … More
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No One is Rich By Himself
Wealth As I write this, the wealthy elite are meeting in a luxury mountaintop hotel in Davos, Switzerland, wondering why … More
Painting a portrait of Greed
I’ve been studying usury, aka charging interest, aka four easy payments of $19.95-something we totally take for granted as normal. … More
In the garden: Honeybees and Adam Smith
Today a honeybee was doing her thing in one of the squash blossoms. If you get very still you can … More
How GREED destroys societies-and always will
History is written through the political prism of the writer. Thus when Rousseau wanted to prove that man in a … More
The Disease of the Heart Gold Cannot Cure
When Montezuma asked Cortez what the big deal was about gold, Cortez answered with more truth than he perhaps intended, … More