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    Minimum Wage Boosts GDP
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    Minimum Wage Boosts GDP

    Robert Hamill 12 Nov 201317 Jun 2024Leave a comment

    More of the worker’s income goes into economic activity, increasing GDP while the owners build their savings.

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    Two Big Questions
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    Two Big Questions

    Robert Hamill 9 Oct 201330 May 2022Leave a comment

    1. If you believe in religion, how do you logically reject other supernatural interventions? 2. If you believe in science, how do explain free will?

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    Aggregate Effects of the Top 1% Earners
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    Aggregate Effects of the Top 1% Earners

    Robert Hamill 28 Sep 201310 Apr 20232 Comments

    With 93% of income growth being taken by the Top 1%, the salaries of workers and lower level managers are barely growing, so the nation’s…

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    Class Warfare and Status Quo
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    Class Warfare and Status Quo

    Robert Hamill 27 Sep 201314 Oct 20241 Comment

    If unrest and riots are quelled without adjustments in societal and economic reality, they will reoccur—like earthquakes which always has us wondering, "Is this the…

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    Aggregate Effects in the National Economy
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    Aggregate Effects in the National Economy

    Robert Hamill 26 Sep 201330 May 2022Leave a comment

    Increased consumption by retained minimum wage workers boosts the economy.

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    TV Time
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    TV Time

    Robert Hamill 18 Sep 20139 May 2023Leave a comment

    commercials have grown from 15% of allotted show time to 30%!

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    Memory Types

    Robert Hamill 10 May 201313 Nov 2022Leave a comment

    Working memory has two special processes to note. The visual-spatial scratchpad helps us answer questions like 'how many windows in your house?' We also have…

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    Boston Bombing and Texas Fertilizer Explosion Effects
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    Boston Bombing and Texas Fertilizer Explosion Effects

    Robert Hamill 28 Apr 20131 Feb 2023Leave a comment

    The Texas disaster was worse in than Boston horror, but not unique and beyond our control.

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    Can everybody be sensible, yet come to different conclusions?
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    Can everybody be sensible, yet come to different conclusions?

    Robert Hamill 23 Apr 201330 May 20222 Comments

    People who disagree are not necessarily being illogical. They may be evaluating facts and possibilities against different concerns and dimensions.

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    Design without a Designer
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    Design without a Designer

    Robert Hamill 19 Apr 201326 Jan 2025Leave a comment

    Our very, complex economic system has a design without a designer.

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