Again, Norm Robins finds a pithy way to provide insight about a financial topic. Like Congress and the President, the Federal Reserve is engaging in a policy that may save us some pain now, but will almost surely imply substantially more pain later. Thank you Norm, for informing us a bit more. Mark Pingle […]Read More
By L. Gordon Crovitz, Information Age, The Wall Street Journal, December 17, 2012 The open Internet, available to people around the world without the permission of any government, was a great liberation. It was also too good to last. Authoritarian governments this month won the first battle to close off parts of the Internet. At […]Read More
December 19, 2012 By Selwyn Duke It’s often hard to accept the truth, especially when that truth is scary — when reality seems to offer you no solutions, only poison from which to pick. It’s as with a man I once knew who insisted that it couldn’t be proven that smoking is bad for […]Read More
By Grandpa David OK, listen up all you U. S. Senators, House Representatives and, yes, you too Mr. President, Sir! This is Grandpa David speaking. I’ve been listening to the news about your negotiations and discussions on how to avoid falling off of the fiscal cliff and it appears to me that you all know […]Read More
We go through this every year. In the tradition of Christmas celebration, someone somewhere gets their knickers in a twist because there’s a Christmas Tree in the town center, or a nativity scene in front of a court house. The twisted knicker bunch starts waving the Bill of Rights around and misquoting the first amendment. […]Read More
The New America Foundation http://newamerica.net/about claims its mission is “animated by the American ideal that each generation will live better than the last.” Very good. Unfortunately, most of what this foundation suggests is feudal in nature, and, if implemented, would ensure each generation lives worse than the last. This foundation engages writers to promote ideas […]Read More
I recently retired from a nation-wide big box home improvement store, the one with about half as many stores as the other nation-wide big box home improvement store. The much larger company commands a bigger market share and its stock prices are often double or close to double of the one I worked for. The […]Read More
Thomas Sowell Nov 14, 2012 (Reprinted from Town Hall.com) Some media pundits see in the growing proportion of non-white groups in the population a growing opposition to the Republican Party that will sooner or later make it virtually impossible for Republicans to win presidential elections or even to control either house of Congress. But is […]Read More