Vindication for the Woodstock Nation 1969
Op-Ed by Susan Boskey As someone who attended the Woodstock Festival in 1969, I write this on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of its…
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The Problem with Humans
Op-Ed by Susan Boskey “It is said that power corrupts, but actually it’s more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted…
Universal Basic Income: Visionary or Wishful Thinking?
By Susan Boskey Universal Basic Income, also known as UBI, social credit and Basic Income Guarantee, is not a new concept. However, it is being…
From Great Recession To Grand Illusion
By Susan Boskey From the Great Recession to the Grand Illusion of recovery, growing household debt and the number of families struggling to make ends…
Central Bank Chicanery And We The Revenue Units
By Susan Boskey “Unfortunately no one can be told what the Matrix is. You have to see it for yourself.” ~Morpheus in the movie, The Matrix…
Blockchain: Open Source Money
By Susan Boskey “Blockchains are simply distributed transaction processing engines. The technology allows data to be stored in a variety of different places while tracking…
The Cumulative Effective Tax Rate
By Susan Boskey Early Americans would roll over in their graves if they heard about modern-day America’s topsy-turvy departure from many of the hard-won freedoms…
Cashless Society, India, And Big Brother
By Susan Boskey “The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.” ~ H. L. Menken The short…
Post-Truth: Facts Pale by Comparison
By Susan Boskey Chuckling to myself, I could not pass up the opportunity to highlight the Oxford Dictionaries’ international word of the year for 2016,…
Meet the New Boss Same as the Old Boss
By Susan Boskey Sorry to have to break it to you. The truth is that President-elect Donald Trump is not anti-establishment. Certainly he is the…
The Wealth Effect Failure
By Susan Boskey People tend to increase spending when the prices of their stock market and real estate assets rise. They perceive it as an…
Presidential Candidates, The Fed, And Status Quo
By Susan Boskey The battle for President of the United States between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump rages on towards the finish line, nasty as…
Can Mounting Personal Debt and Economic Recovery Coexist?
By Susan Boskey The saying “The proof is in the pudding” applies proving if America is in an economic recovery…or not. My view all along…
The Power Behind The Throne
By Susan Boskey “And the banks–hard to believe in a time when we’re facing a banking crisis that many of the banks created–are still the…