The original Olympic Games were held 3000 years ago in Greece where athletes were used as tools by city-states to assert dominance over their rivals. Once thought of as a ritual to honor their mythological gods, today athletes are represented by commercial brands and compete with one another for the distinction and jewels of the advertising endorsement dollar.
When Ayn Rand published her magnum opus Atlas Shrugged she dared to dissect a dystopian United States wherein leading innovators, artists and industrialists refused to be exploited by the government. Over 50 years on, her book remains a New York Times bestseller, and her Theory of Objectivism may very well be the answer Economists are using to explain any hope for an Upturn. Contributor DAVID BAUCOM reviews the author’s call to reason, the inherent conflicts of Collectivism, and explores why and to what end we carry the weight of the world on our shoulders.
Once a fierce competitor with an indomitable spirit, the Late Great White Male now seems to have lost his power over the purchasing dollar, his command within the corporate environment, and his role as the proverbial Leader of the Pack. Contributing DAVE LANDY retraces his steps to power, suggests how and why he was trailed, and cautions those who wish or dare to follow in his tracks.
Americans fill 4 Billion prescriptions annually--to the tune of $300 Billion dollars--with each and every American filling an approximate 12 prescriptions a year! Contributor DAVE LANDY hits the road to meet the doctors, insurance companies, politicians, and commercial advertisers who claim to have the ‘Cure Dejour,’ and cautions that every choice can lead either to instant gratification or major detours on the Highway to Health.
Imperialism is the creation and maintenance of an unequal cultural, territorial or economic relationship, and as a management style is encoded in the day-to-day affairs of people around the world. But when the burgeoning United States Textiles Industry put immigrants, slaves and even children to work, the question of power somehow overtook the proposition of progress. Contributor BRENDA WENSIL goes inside one of the United State’s first and most successful trades to find out how America was really built and upon what principles it gained its glory.
The Economic Recession of 2007 - 2010 now accounts for a 20% unemployment rate in the United States and Contributor BRENDA WENSIL, among the ranks during the Wachovia Crash, examines what really happened at the highest level of the bank in the days and weeks preceding the September 29th 2008 Financial Crisis and explains what went wrong, who was accountable, and clarifies precisely who recovered and how.
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