Archive for the ‘Economy’ Category
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Rules Are Made to Be Broken
Posted on January 16, 2013
My cousin Barry once said to me, with a mischievous grin, before he got in trouble with his parents, “rules are made to be broken.” That certainly is the case...
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The Business of Business
Posted on January 16, 2013
“The chief business of the American people is business.” Calvin Coolidge said that to a group of newspaper editors in 1925, smack dab in the middle of the Roaring 20’s,...
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Game of Thrones Part Two
Posted on December 29, 2012
I have written about the HBO show Game of Thrones before, which is why this post is called Game of Thrones Part Two. I like to keep my posts straight....
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Thinking Big; Thinking Small
Posted on December 11, 2012
Mike Simpson is thinking big. Barack Obama is thinking small. Simpson, an Idaho Republican, recently spearheaded a bipartisan letter in the House urging negotiators to go big when dealing with...
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Subsidy Hypocrisy
Posted on September 10, 2012
When you play Monopoly, it is always nice to own the utilities. It won’t make you rich and it won’t knock your opponents out of the game, but it provides...
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