Daily Topics - Thursday May 30th, 2013
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Thom's blog in this space and moving to a new home.
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Mueller's favorite place to pray (written about in "Prophet's Way"), and the roof of the room where the Last Supper is reputed to have happened.
From Unequal Protection, 2nd Edition:
"If you wonder why and when giant corporations got the power to reign supreme over us, here’s the story."
From The Thom Hartmann Reader:
"With the ever-growing influence of corporate CEOs and their right-wing allies in all aspects of American life, Hartmann’s work is more relevant than ever. Throughout his career, Hartmann has spoken compellingly about the value of people-centered democracy and the challenges that millions of ordinary Americans face today as a result of a dogma dedicated to putting profit above all else. This collection is a rousing call for Americans to work together and put people first again."
From Unequal Protection, 2nd Edition:
"Hartmann combines a remarkable piece of historical research with a brilliant literary style to tell the grand story of corporate corruption and its consequences for society with the force and readability of a great novel."
A word for self-taught is autodidact.
Whether the economy is doing well is, in my opinion, not well correlated with the stock market. Yes, it does require disposable income but as the middle class has less and less income because the wealth has been concentrated in an enormous pile at the top; it's mostly the wealthy that can contribute in stock purchases. When the wealthy can drop a million or two and not miss it, there will be a tendency toward more risk and therefore higher probability of crashes.
In sum, useful objects and the knowledge that goes with their use has considerably more value than the pieces of paper some hoard whose only intrinsic value is in the heat calories they release when burned.
Intrinsic value is not to be found in the stock market. There may be a case to be made that dividends bleed value from the general society because the corp. could have used the money to develop/ produce goods and technology with actual intrinsic value.
Question: Why should a stock be rewarded in perpetuity?