Framing

How issues are framed often determines which way policy ends up going.

Imagine if instead of “McDonald’s” it was called “McBland Burgers”.

Imagine if instead of “real estate agents” we said “people who look on Zillow for you and you pay them $20,000”.

Imagine if instead of saying “the federal reserve system”, we said “financiers gamble and get rich with your money and if they lose you cover the losses”.… read more “Framing”

Court scheduling

Having a whole bunch of unrelated people have to hear a bunch of unrelated cases seems like an ancient waste of time. Do all Zoom hearings and allow remote appearances and just do one case at a time. Schedule them so dozens of people are not sitting around waiting?

Jeffrey Epstein & The Powerful Corrupt

We have all heard about Epstein, but I had not read much about it until I read his Wikipedia entry this morning – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Epstein. The amount of high level corruption and cover up of his crimes staggers belief https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Epstein. The guy repeatedly ran bigtime financial frauds at the highest level (one of the biggest Ponzi schemes of all time in the 90s, Bear Stearns collapse causing the Great Recession) and more famously his sex crimes involving lots of high level people.… read more “Jeffrey Epstein & The Powerful Corrupt”