This comparison was in the WSJ Notable & Quotable section a few weeks ago: “The reason why a bachelors degree on its own no longer conveys intelligence and capability is that the government ...Read More
I just finished The Ascent of Money by Niall Ferguson. He has an interesting new spin on the current financial crisis. I again failed in my quest to find a way to guarantee the preservation of ass...Read More
“Proxy climate data from a variety of sources, including ice cores drilled in Greenland and Antarctica, show that global temperatures were warmer for most of the past 100,000 years than they are...Read More
The annual federal deficit is lingering at about a trillion dollars. Yes that is Trillion with a “T”. I have a way to solve a big part of this problem. Cut the pay and benefits of all fe...Read More
In The Rational Optimist Matt Ridley make a terrific case that what make human’s special is our propensity to share, specialize and trade. As a result of this propensity we have created a virt...Read More
Want to know the average daily wage in the USA? This chart has it and hundred of other interesting and addictive facts: Money Chart http://xkcd.com/980/huge/#x=-4832&y=-2560&z=2 Be careful...Read More
There is talk about taxing financial transactions as a way to punish those in the finance business and to raise revenue. Without taking sides I discovered today that this idea has been tried before ...Read More
Postal rates go up January 22 and the post office is being pretty quiet about it. Perhaps so that you don’t go out and stock up on forever stamps. Perhaps because nobody mails anything anymo...Read More
In the same way that tax breaks are: “Corporate Welfare.” Federal aid to The Corporation for Public Broadcasting and NPR is: “Liberal Welfare.” It can be argued that the corpor...Read More
President Obama and the Democrats were elected in a landslide in November 2008. During the campaign they promised to increase the socialization of the health care system and they did. It was ugly ...Read More