by Michael Freedman | Jan 31, 2024 | Economic Opportunity
It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it. Upton Sinclair We are living in a period of rapid innovation in markets and products. Globalization has enabled companies to move jobs to countries with lower...
by Michael Freedman | Jan 31, 2024 | Healthy Economy
“In a healthy economy, empowering, sustaining and efficiency innovations operate in balance. A healthy economy creates and sustains more jobs before squeezing out inefficiencies.” – Clayton M. Christensen A healthy society and economy provide broad...
by Michael Freedman | Jan 31, 2024 | The Common Good
Those who profess to favor freedom and yet deprecate agitation are men who want crops without plowing the ground. – Frederick Douglass The Common Good is an ethical concept that holds that, for a society to be prosperous, we must regularly put the interests of...
by Michael Freedman | Jan 31, 2024 | Journalism & Trust
“There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there always has been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that “my...
by Michael Freedman | Jan 31, 2024 | Democratic Values
OVERVIEW Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter. – Martin Luther King, JR. We support and promote Liberal Democracy as the form of government that allows all citizens to live their best lives. Democracy must continually be...