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 [...]

Capitalism Dead or in Hibernation?

It seems as though every other day for the last couple of months there have been comments about the demise of capitalism or at least a radical governmental intervention into the market place to correct the perceived shortcomings of capitalism.   That has been  the lead story on the TV news networks and in the print [...]

It Goes Around and Comes Around

Think back to the late ’80’s and the Savings and Loan crisis of that era and you should recall that it was a mostly regional problem.  Yes, the effects of those bad commercial loans spread to many regions of the country but the pain was not universal.  The real epi-center of that crisis was in [...]

Stress Tests Weak Hearts

I wonder if our free market system still has a heartbeat sometimes.  There is no question that the interventions of Government, Inc. over the last 6 months has severely wounded the vital organ.  Our income tax chief who can’t calculate his own taxes correctly and who also happens to be the Secretary of the Treasury [...]

Liberal Changes To Chagrin of Conservatives

Looking at a long historical perspective it occurs to me that there is a consistent pattern in a liberal view of the political and social world.  You can start pretty much any where you like with the analysis on a timeline.  Whether it is 1850, 1900, 1940 or 2000 there is a pattern to the [...]

Old Bad Remedies Are Still Bad Ones

We are faced with difficulty at the moment in our economic and financial affairs.  Many refer to it as a crisis.  I suppose that is in the eyes of the beholder.  But a faltering economy is a fact whatever its degree.   Some are  proposing certain remedies that they vervantly hawk as new and different to fix [...]

Does “Market” Need Fix?

Only yesterday our tax cheat in chief who happens to also serve as the Sec. of the Treasury said that the market can’t fix the financial mess.   Oh, I do beg to differ.   The arrogance of such a position is mind boggling.  The “market” is all of us making our individual and collective decisions on [...]

Satirical(?) Fix for Global Warming

We are inundated with news constantly that we are all going to die, or at least our progeny, in the not too distant future as a result of the man-made Global  Warming.   We are assured that the science is solid and there is no dispute about the conclusion.  Of course data is a hard thing [...]