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
So it looks like the President and Congress are getting ready to extend the length of time people can collect unemployment insurance again. This time for another thirteen months. It is wrong to let ...Read More
Subtitle: Don’t promise what you can’t deliver. In the Spring time when you plant you can predict a bumper crop. In the Summer working in the field you can daydream about bounty But in the...Read More
“We will be accountable. We will answer for this legislation one year from now… We won’t say, ‘Well, that’s just the economy’s fault.’ No, we will be accountable for the decisions that w...Read More