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The Conforming Identity

Posted on November 30, 2014 by griffithlighton

Following the 2014 midterms, having gained a complete congressional majority, the GOP says it has a mandate. The two-party system has mechanically solved for “X” (conforming consent) and its existence is legitimately identified, conforming to the numbers, on demand. What … Continue reading →

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The Existence Resistance

Posted on September 16, 2014 by griffithlighton

While it is interesting to speculate why there are nihilistic tendencies, how to functionally operationalize it is the immediate problem. Bombing people into inexistence just reinforces the demand for destruction. Adam Smith, for example, being a moral philosopher (and remember, … Continue reading →

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Controlling for Volatility

Posted on July 18, 2014 by griffithlighton

Managing the Long-Wave Frequency of Risk Nature does not care if we know what the right thing to do is, or care to do it. When it comes to the human experience, much as the Objectivist describes it, nature is … Continue reading →

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Pre-Tending to a Limited Liability

Posted on June 11, 2014 by griffithlighton

There is a story that pre-tends to the risk-reward ratio. The story being told is a method yield. For the capitalist, making markets, tending to the probable risk, is a timing function. Probability is reduced to market mechanics, structured to … Continue reading →

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Naked in the Marketplace

Posted on May 28, 2014 by griffithlighton

The Positive Value of Negative Yield Geithner says the negative yield “was” worse than the Great Depression but since regulators reacted in the interest of the people at large (the interest of common divisibility) we did not go into a … Continue reading →

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Yielding to Common Divisibility

Posted on May 20, 2014 by griffithlighton

Mancur Olson presents a practical guide for understanding the “natural identity” Ayn Rand refers to, for example. In “The Logic of Collective Action” Olson describes divisible and indivisible incentives. We tend to naturally buy-in to indivisible rewards out of self-interest … Continue reading →

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Maximizing Yield with Limited Liability

Posted on May 20, 2014 by griffithlighton

Mainstream economics tells us that if liability is not limited, capital investment is sub-optimal. Trying to contain the risk, like we are doing now, by wanting to extend unemployment compensation and raising the minimum wage, for example, results in excess … Continue reading →

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The Greatest Common Divisor

Posted on April 9, 2014 by griffithlighton

High-Speed Accountability Capitalism is inherently volatile. The volatility addjects the arbitrage argument, which the capitalist argues is not intended, fully reduced, in priority. Rather, volatility is a natural tendency that capitalism intends to exploit and turn into something positive–capital–as fast … Continue reading →

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Definite Values

Posted on March 5, 2014 by griffithlighton

If we want a permanent war economy, play the Objectivist neo-con game. Ayn Rand, the original Objectivist philosopher that neo-cons tend to religiously accept, was anti-war. According to Rand, if we just accept our “natural identity”–that there are, naturally, winners … Continue reading →

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Objective Inequality

Posted on October 29, 2013 by griffithlighton

Compulsively obsessing over Ted Cruz is a fallacy of the ad hominem variety. Focusing on the cult of personality, we crowd out evaluating policies and programs in a meaningful way. Causal attributions are trivialized. According to pop media, for example, … Continue reading →

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