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A 2020 Perspective

“I believe any person can change the world (which is why I write) but changing the world in not everyone’s duty. It is however each person’s obligation not to detract from the greater good!” Kevin J Palmer  

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Proficiencies of Kevin J Palmer are rooted in decades of driving performance for Wall Street giants Merrill Lynch and Paine Webber. Then, as Managing Director at Strategic Management Advisors where partnering with other executives, he built better broker-dealers by improving business models during an industry paradigm shift.   Going deeper Read more…

Are We Free?

Five Million Hominin Walked on 2 legs upright Two Million Homo with bigger brains use hand tools 200,000 years ago modern humans survived climate change shared planet with at least 3 other species. 40,000 years ago Neanderthals became extinct after 1000 of coexisting sexually with modern humans 12,000 years ago Read more…

Political Correctness

The Successes and Excesses of Political Correctness The debate over the term and its meaning is coming back. It also never really went away. By Tyler Cowen Stomping on principle. Photographer: AFP Contributor/AFP Tyler Cowen is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist. He is a professor of economics at George Mason University Read more…