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Articles by Mark Orton

What’s a Billion Dollars Look Like?

September 10, 2025 Mark Orton 0

These big numbers a way beyond counting on your fingers – try a trillion With the surge in the number of billionaires around the world […]

David Brooks on nurturing human capital in poor people

September 5, 2025 Mark Orton 0

What might he say about our billionaire class “As a society, we are pretty good at transferring money to the poor, but we’re not very […]

Intel and Financialization – harvesting money brings loss of focus on products….

September 2, 2025 Mark Orton 0

Intel is in the news these days because it’s stumbling and Trump efforts to make our government a shareholder. Professor Bill Lazonick spoke about financialization […]

Workers Over Billionaires Demonstration – a visual report from Palm Beach Gardens, FL 9.1.2025

September 2, 2025 Mark Orton 0

About a thousand people lined both sides of PGA Blvd near the Palm Beach County North County Courthouse on Labor Day. Lots of signs, cars […]

Our minds evolved to survive, not to see the truth.

August 24, 2025 Mark Orton 0

beginning to understand Trump and his billionaires….. I’ve been puzzling for several years now to explain why 74 million Americans voted for Trump in 2024. […]

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