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Walt Whitman on a healthy diet

Dalrymple on an ordinary man

Piketty’s Crumbs - Inequality economists know the price of everything but understand the value of nothing

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Landmarking Is Turning New York City Into a Life-Sized Historical Diorama - The city recently landmarked a giant Pepsi-Cola sign because of its "prominent siting."

If you like your pistol, you can keep it.

Good News in Global Warming

WSJ Reports on Canadian Air Traffic Control

The End Is Near

You Can't Escape Data Surveillance In America

Why Are Highly Educated Americans Getting More Liberal?

Scripps students: Hating white people is legitimate

Mizzou Race Relations Committee Releases Series of Anti-Racism Videos for ‘White People’

Pure genius

College Conservatives Are The New Counter-Culture On Campus

Kudlow:  Obama Is Suffocating Business Investment and the Economy

The impossibility of reviving American manufacturing

After Manufacturing - The End of Economic Development?

Why the Left Hates Jews

Clintonism screwed the Democrats: How Bill, Hillary and the Democratic Leadership Council gutted progressivism

Trump falling seriously behind Clinton in planning for general election

Diary of a Mad Voter - Waiting for Donald

Movie Based on ‘Clinton Cash,’ Book Exposing Clinton’s Corruption at State, Debuting at Cannes

CNN Host Describes Anti-Trump Thugs Who Ravaged City Streets As “Dissatisfied Citizens”…

Anti-Trump Protester: “We Don’t Need White Man Telling Us He’s Going to Build a Wall in Our Land”

The Greatest Kindness Will Not Bind the Ungrateful.

Puerto Rico Says Will Default Tomorrow, Begs Congress For Help "Or Else Crisis Will Get Worse"

Congress needs to give them the right to bankruptcy - or give them independence

Venezuela Runs Out of Beer

Islamic Council of Germany calls for ban on Alternative for Germany party

The New Jewish Diaspora?

From Mikhail Fridman's As Global Instability Spreads, the "Indigo" Economy Rises:

We are entering a disruptive era driven by extraordinary levels of human creativity. A new generation of curious, strong-willed and talented individuals is unhindered by convention or the past. This new “Indigo” generation is now shaping tomorrow’s economy and creating national wealth. I use the term Indigo because it has been used to refer to children with special or unusual abilities. This is an era where abnormally talented individuals and entities are now able to realize new levels of human potential and economic achievement.

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This new Indigo era undermines the hypothesis that depletion of natural resources is imminent. The innovative potential of developed countries has allowed people to find alternatives to any such shortage. This does not mean that the world no longer requires natural resources. But it eliminates the real or imagined shortage of those resources and deprives commodity exporters of what have been super profits. Oil and gas was the last bastion of these bottlenecks and it too has crumbled, thanks to Indigo economies.

The main source of national wealth is not the resource rent but the social infrastructure that allows every person to realize his or her intellectual and creative potential. It is for this reason that Exxon, once the world’s largest company, has been overtaken by Apple and Google. This represents a paradigm shift in which creative, non-linear thinking and random ideas are turned into new scalable services in a short space of time.