Purpose: To present BlackEconomics.org correspondence (an email message and a memorandum) that was transmitted to selected Black American (Afrodescendant) religious organizations concerning the subject topic. This correspondence was, and is, intended to stimulate comments and discussion concerning methods for building trust and unity among Black Americans beginning with our religious organizations and institutions. This effort […]
EXCEPT WHERE INDICATED, THE OPINIONS EXPRESSED ON THIS PAGE ARE NOT NECESSARILY THOSE OF THE MADISON TIMES
EXCEPT WHERE INDICATED, THE OPINIONS EXPRESSED ON THIS PAGE ARE NOT NECESSARILY THOSE OF THE MADISON TIMES
Why Money and Love are Not Tautological Answers
BlackEconomics.org® Purpose: To reveal the efficacy of economics in determining the nature and veracity of widely perceived realities. Introduction There are so many ways to open this essay as we begin our sweet climb to joy and optimism during the End-of-Year-Holidays and onset of the New Year. One thing is for certain, discussions about money […]
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Insight #4: The Declining Importance of Jesus in the Global Economy
BlackEconomics.org® Purpose: To remind Black Americans of a requirement to never “surrender all,” but to continuously “reconsider all.” Our world was hijacked: Mental and physical aspects of our lives were reconfigured improperly. Hence, we must use all means available to: (1) Build trust and unity; (2) agree on a plan for our future; (3) execute […]
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BlackEconomics.org Insight #3: What Black Americans Should Know About the Economics of Nations
BlackEconomics.org® Purpose: To scrutinize three important economic considerations that should underlie Black Americans’ (Afrodescendants’) thought processes as we contemplate prospects for economic engagement with Afrikan People on the Continent. Introduction This “BlackEconomics.org Insight #3” features three elements: A novel approach for considering the economic health of nations. Instead of “real growth” (inflation adjusted) in […]
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Revisiting Economics Before Education?
Purpose: To further refine Dr. Claud Anderson’s excellent conceptualization and visualization of a framework for Black American (Afrodescendant) Socioeconomic development. In April 2023, BlackEconomics.org released an Analysis Brief entitled, “Economics Before Education?”i It featured discussion of the venerable Dr. Claud Anderson’s characterization of Black Americans’ (Afrodescendants’) prospective future economic and social development as hierarchical floors […]
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Uncountenancing Uncertainty
BlackEconomics.org® Purpose: To recognize (again) the adverse effects of uncertainty, the usual/typical autonomous responding efforts to reduce uncertainty, and to explore why Black (Afrodescendants) and other Americans are not responding as just described to the uncertainty created by the current U.S. Presidential Administration. In September 2022, BlackEconomics.org released a Brief Essay entitled, “The Black Economics […]
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Reversing the Pointed Finger
BlackEconomics.org® Purpose: To motivate Black Americans (Afrodescendants) to redirect a considerable amount of energy from naming, blaming, and shaming to analyzing, planning, and executing. This essay is a puzzle for your consideration, contemplation, and decision-making. It reflects a minimum amount of analysis. It discusses pieces of the puzzle that you will pick up, scrutinize, flip […]
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Permission Granted
BlackEconomics.org® Purpose of this release: To examine Black America’s modus operandi in pursuit of improved wellbeing and to urge adoption of a new modus operandi. We begin this Analysis Brief with a cinematic and a biblical example concerning permission. For experts on Star Trek (cinematic and television renditions) it is easy to recall the pervasive, […]
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What are the Goals of Managers/Controllers of the Economy?
BlackEconomics.org® The topic-question of this essay is more provocative than you might believe. It goes beyond the type of goals imposed on the U.S. Federal Reserve Board (FRB; an institutional unit charged with managing the U.S. economy) by the U.S. President and Congress. For example, the FRB’s “dual mandate” is to ensure maximum employment […]
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Headline Thoughts #10: Turning Points
BlackEconomics.org® This “Headline Thoughts” is unlike any other. We dispense with our usual formalness and present raw issues in raw form. These are not “headlines” per se. Rather, they are haunting thoughts about turning points that are on our mind. We believe that they should be on your mind, which motivated our production of this […]
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