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  • Nine Thoughts on the Problems of Printing Money

    Nine Thoughts on the Problems of Printing Money1

    For some, a small dose of mild inflation, say 2% annually, is necessary for economic growth. For others, the act of inflation inherently reduces purchasing power and alters investing, savings, and business development. Most, though, would agree on the dangers of a purposeful use of inflation to get out of economic profligacy. With all of

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  • Nine of the Ten Richest People in the World Are Self-Made Entrepreneurs

    Nine of the Ten Richest People in the World Are Self-Made Entrepreneurs0

    • December 3, 2019

    Every year Forbes publishes its list of the 400 wealthiest Americans. Topping the list in 2019 for the second year in a row was, to no one’s surprise, Jeff Bezos. The Amazon founder kept the top spot despite a divorce that sent his net worth tumbling from $160 billion to $114 billion. Worldwide, Americans represent

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  • Nikola Tesla: 5 Things Most People Don’t Know About Him

    Nikola Tesla: 5 Things Most People Don’t Know About Him0

    Nikola Tesla, the beloved inventor, engineer, and physicist, had his birthday just a couple weeks ago on July 10th, which makes him 160 years old! Tesla is revered around the world for his contributions to modern society, including the alternating current electricity system, which is used by most residential homes and commercial business spaces today.

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  • Nike: Taking Colin Kaepernick’s PC Advice Once Again?

    Nike: Taking Colin Kaepernick’s PC Advice Once Again?0

    You’d think Nike would have learned by now to avoid Colin Kaepernick’s advice like the plague. After all, it was Kaepernick’s ad for Nike that caused a number of mocking knockoff memes on social media, provoked a boycott of the company, and sent the stock plunging in September of 2018.   Believe in something, even if

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  • Nike Boycott Over Kaepernick Ads Demonstrates Yearning for Patriotism

    Nike Boycott Over Kaepernick Ads Demonstrates Yearning for Patriotism0

    • September 5, 2018

    The National Football League just can’t escape the ugly politics of 2018. One of the world’s largest sports apparel companies is now embracing the man who started it all, and fans aren’t happy about it. Nike is jumping in to champion Colin Kaepernick, the man who launched the now-frequent national anthem protests, and is making

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  • Nietzsche Wrote Love Poems (And They Are Just What You’d Expect)

    Nietzsche Wrote Love Poems (And They Are Just What You’d Expect)0

    The German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) is probably not the first person who comes to mind when you think about romantic love. For most of his life, Nietzsche was a solitary and lonely figure. In Beyond Good and Evil, Nietzsche railed against the evils of women, only to recant all that he’d written a paragraph later. He

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