Politics Positive Accounting SimonOctober 22, 20100 Last week in my blog post, Pensions are not Free, I was pretty hard on the accounting profession and worried about our...
Politics Pensions Are Not Free SimonOctober 12, 20100 Peggy Noonan wrote a great article in the Saturday WSJ about the Tea Party movement and the unease many American feel...
Maxims September 26, 2010 Maxim SimonSeptember 26, 20100 "Fathom the odd hypocrisy that Obama wants every citizen to prove they are insured, but people don't have to prove they...
Politics Greed is Not New. SimonSeptember 24, 20100 On this date in 1869, thousands of businessmen were ruined in a Wall Street panic known as "Black Friday" after...
Maxims September 6, 2010 Maxim SimonSeptember 6, 20104 "UPS and FedEx are doing just fine. It's the Post Office that's always having problems." Barack Obama He didn't...
Politics A Mildly Libertarian Idea SimonAugust 27, 20100 "I believe that there is only one road to true reform, and that is to rediscover and reapply the principles of...
Codger Divers Democrats and Republicans SimonMarch 19, 20100 I spent a bit of time at airports getting home from Utila. On one leg of the flight my friend Henry L. talked himself...
Politics A Conflict of Interests SimonFebruary 19, 20100 The US Government, which is the majority shareholder of General Motors, is also the arbiter of automobile safety in the...