Introduction
With the failure of markets to factor in external costs, the government has to regulate the economy in order to maintain fair practice as well as uphold the common interest. The Great Depression during the 30s resulted in massive reforms within the economy in order to stabilize it’s boom-bust cycles, and gave the state more control over financial markets (ex: separating people’s savings accounts from the stock market, or drafting a charter on the savings and loan associations).

The recent trend in the agenda of the White House has been deregulation. And with that, now we are seeing recession and insecurity …

The other day I received a letter from R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co., the company that owns Camel cigarettes. It says:

Hey good-looking,

Hopefully, you’re one of the millions who got a nice fat check from the government. And hopefully you had some fun with it. But chances are more of it went into your gas tank than that new whatever you’ve been wanting but couldn’t afford.

More relief is here. And this time it’s only good for one thing - a little break on your favorite style of Camels.

It ain’t a flat screen…. But maybe you could hang a stuffed marlin or something …

It’s been 4 days since our last post here at The State of Affairs, but not to worry we have returned. I personally have been quite busy with a few different design projects. One that I am especially excited about is Mtsidesign.com which is moving to a new Wordpress powered theme.

I had been wanting to convert the static HTML version of Mtsidesign to a dynamic Wordpress installation, but held back due to my lack of knowledge of how to fully utilize Wordpress as a CMS. I must say that it was a learning process, but also a great creative expansion.

With …

What is the significance of a single Presidential election poll? It turns out, not much. Whether it be national polling firm or a major news network, following just one of them can be very misleading. The main reason for this is the fact that every poll is polled differently. So which one is the right one then? The answer, some of them.

What I mean by that is that for a true poll to be truly relevant, it has to be based off many different polls. …

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Another nice …