Professor Elam

In honor of Milton Friedman (see recent posts)  You Tube is sponsoring a
Challenge the Status Quo Contest.   Click on the link to the left to learn more about it.  Economist Friedman championed challenging the status quo, now you can too.  There are cash prizes and the video has to be between one and ten minutes.

Read more about Friedman and the forthcoming video on him Monday Jan 29 on PBS in John  Stossel’s article.

What to challenge, read Stossell’s article, Milton challenged just about everything, or   how about

Mexico’s refusal to reform its economy , this is the only country in the world whose economic plan of its poorest consits of one word-leave!

Our failed war on drugs-Chicago gangsters of the 1930s could only dream of the money narco drug lords have made

Getting serious about energy consumption

Getting serious about education-cost, should everybody go to college, what’s important

Social issues?

How about simpler cell phones and computers – see previous posts – instead of a whole new complex version of Windows and Office that none of us wants to learn anyway

Okay, start your digital cameras, remember, Steven Speilberg began with the tv movie Duel, Steve McQueen starred in the  Blob, think, American Idol Director!

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