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The state of our education system is revealed in this short video from SHTFPlan:   Share/Save Download article as PDF

Video about college students that is depressing, discouraging and truly sad. It does not speak well for the future of this country. The only ones I feel sorrier for are [...]

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The idea that going to college is a financial boon to your lifetime income is rarely questioned. But is it? When you take into account the lost work time, tuition, [...]

Ever wonder why Obama got elected? Are you curious as to how Barbara Boxer, Maxine Waters, Nancy Pelosi and the other lunatic-fringe from California stay in office? Only a deeply [...]

Discussions of education produce more intellectual nonsense than any other topic. It has been this way forever. Sheldon Richman describes the latest approach with a much earlier view: As an [...]

Just like the housing market, the price of higher education is a bubble. Prices are well-beyond any reasonable, free-market level based on private income. As in housing, government created the [...]

What do education and prostitution have in common? Probably several things, but the important one is that the delivery of both services is virtually unchanged since the time of Socrates. [...]

More on the tragedy of education in the US. Share/Save Download article as PDF

I don’t have the data, but perhaps some readers might. I have often speculated that the cost of a state-university degree is higher than a private university. In my state, [...]

J. R.Nyquist has written an excellent article on Healthcare. He summarizes quite nicely the economic aspects of healthcare and why soft-headed thinking, regardless of good intentions, produces bad results. He [...]

A post from James Quinn, originally by Casey Research. Funny, true and a marker for how much our schools have been changed. A sad reflection on society. SCHOOL – 1957 [...]