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Ken Melvin on Housing Prices

Reader Ken Melvin sends along some thoughts on housing prices: — Speculation in housing: Much of the speculation in houses is due leveraging. The buyer puts down 10% on a…

Ken Melvin’s Look Ahead

This one is by Ken Melvin… ——— We ever hear that we must keep on growing the economy. Given the operative economic model, growth implies more consumption, more production. Impossible!…

Ken Melvin on Nets

This one is by reader Ken Melvin… —– Someone from country Xyz can immigrate to our country if they bring a couple million bucks and agree to start a business…

Ken Melvin on the Chicken and His Eggs

This one is by reader Ken Melvin… ——- The Chicken and His Eggs? Whence the Silicon, Microsoft, Genetic engineering, Dot Com,… age? Silicon Valley was born when some guys at…

Ken Melvin’s Thoughts on Health Insurance

Ken Melvin sends some comments: ———– Last night, Howard Dean was asked on C-Span, ‘Why not universal health care?’, responded that it was impossible to do in one svelte move…

Reader Ken Melvin on Preventing Housing Bubbles

Reader Ken Melvin sends along an idea. My brain is just too fuzzy this morning to speculate, so I haven’t thought through the ramifications, but it does seem intriguing…. ————–…

ken melvin writes about Black Holes

This is written by KenMelvin Black Holes: Just for the sake of discussion, let’s say that there were five hundred billionaires in the US yesterday, and that, on average, each…

There are Three Federalist Societies

A comment taken from Ken Melvin’s commentary “The Coup.” Ken Melvin discussing with JackD. Yeah. Sen, Whitehouse makes this distinction: In effect, there are three Federalist Societies. The first (Federal…