Supply Side Economics From Centuries Ago

With all the bailouts and Stimulus money floating around and the unimaginable amounts of money printed by the Fed being injected into our economy there is renewed debate about the best way to turn our economy around.  Many, especially those in the current administration, tout the idea that we need to keep pouring on the [...]

Value A Vet

This holiday to honor our veterans of past and present wars often passes with little notice.  It should not be so.  Many don’t even recall the original holiday and its background.  It was Armistice Day.  It was a day to celebrate the end of the Great War.  That was the moniker for WWI before there [...]

2 Cents Worth on Life Its Ownself

When Clinton pushed for and got Congressional approval for the repeal of Glass-Steagal it allowed the distinction between commercial banks and investment banks to disappear.  Many hailed that as a great achievement.  The White House then took the position that the distinction was old hat and a product of an earlier era that no longer applied [...]

The Watch–cont’d 5

The images were like angry wasps flying at them.  Mostly they were merely straight lines against the sky slowing growing larger as they angled down at the convoy.  He could see two of them.  They were the ones flying right at them.  He didn’t even look around for others.  Before he could even adjust to [...]

The Watch–cont’d

He noticed that the other gun crews were about done with cleaning their stations and most of the spent casings had been thrown overboard.  His gun was ready and he reported that to the Lieutenant.   What time was it?  He glanced at his watch–09:15.   It seemed like he had been out there longer than that.   [...]

2 Cents For These?

The following are worth what you paid for them but the asking price is still 2 cents per each as they say on the loading docks.
When you have spent an hour on the tarmac with no word from the cockpit about take off or pulling up the the gate, you wonder if those pilots were [...]

The Watch–cont’d

It seemed like every big guy was called Moose just like all the radio operators on board were called “Sparks or Sparky”.  He was big, came in about 230 or so and that was much bigger than anyone else on the ship by far.  Moose played the violin and woe to the fellow who referred [...]

Debt Debacle

Sometimes the current economic pundits talk about our current debt and indicate that it is not as severe a problem as others think.  This in spite of the fact that even those in the current administration do give lip service to the notion that the deficits and debt growth are “unsustainable”.    They just want to [...]

King Dollar and Diplomacy

This is not a polemic on politics but rather a discussion about economics, numbers and the international relations and effects of the US currency and its perceived worth around the world.    In the Wall Street Journal and other economic news outlets there has been substantial discussion of recent days about the decline of the dollar [...]

USS Paul Hamilton–A Small Story of Great Loss

Only 6 weeks before the D-Day invasion we lost one of Liberty ships off the coast of N. Africa near Algiers.   This was at a time when we were set to start the final act of WWII.   The Germans were already reeling from their losses on the Eastern Front and Stalingrad and it had been [...]