To begin, I would like to propose an economic thought experiment befitting of fiscal policymaking. Suppose for a moment that there is a Liberal Capitalist nation somewhere in the world with a Market/Mixed Economy. It has undergone decades of deindustrialization… Read More ›
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CCP crackdown threatens to remove X, Facebook, Instagram from Apple’s App Store in China
The Chinese Communist Party push to register foreign apps threatens to remove Facebook, Instagram and X from Apple’s App Store in China… CCP crackdown threatens to remove X, Facebook, Instagram from Apple’s App Store in China
Zero Hour by Duty and Honor
Good news, Gio from Beautiful Monsters decided to publish that short story I sent him late last month. After writing Treatises devoted to the Work-Standard for the past two years, the only thing to do now is for me to… Read More ›
Virtual Communities: Precursor to the Social Forum?
What does it mean for the Self to be a citizen? A person becomes a citizen when they swear a sacred oath of allegiance to the nation, their loyalty rewarded in kind by dint of their own citizenship. Through their… Read More ›
Economic Socialization in Mainland China?
Back on Wednesday, I mentioned that I needed to find more evidence to determine Mainland China’s recent Recession is compelling Beijing to start turning its back on the Private and Foreign Enterprises of its Socialist Market Economy. The Chinese economy… Read More ›
A Reading of “The Zoomer Question”
To be honest, my year of birth is often placed somewhere between Millennials and Gen Z because demographers have been unclear on exactly when and where the two generations begin to diverge. The consensus is that it has to be… Read More ›
Social Networking: Digital World-Cities of the WWW?
Last year, while trying to research the concept of the Shopping Citadel and its related variants, I began to come across a number of references to the 1960s Counterculture, Silicon Valley, and all the research that later went into the… Read More ›
On Digital Taxation Regimes (Pt. II of II)
Back in Part I, I devoted a detailed discussion about the Internet Tax Freedom Act (ITFA) from the purviews of Production for Profit and Production for Utility. Here, I will be delving into the same legislation in the context of… Read More ›
On Digital Taxation Regimes (Pt. I of II)
In The Digital Realm (1st Ed.), I argued that “Digital Taxation” is one of the emerging signs of a Digital Economy, regardless of whether we are talking about the National Intranet or the World Wide Web (WWW). The Digital Economy,… Read More ›
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