Had I beaten Mike Turner, I would have been advancing this legislation in Congress. Instead, he’s still whining…
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Esrati on the Economy
Do we care if Mark Zuckerberg loses billions?
“The Facebook” was a hormonal male’s idea of how to make it easier to pick up girls at Harvard, where somehow, he was…
The bigger the lie: US Military expenditures
Listening to NPR this morning, I got to hear a discussion of the US Debt and how it related to the military- which…
Go see ’The Big Short’ now
There is a good argument against democracy- that people aren’t smart enough to select their leaders. The fact…
How to stimulate the right part of the economy by saving the government money
With all the fuss about the Fed raising interest rates- which is going to go straight to the banks’ bottom line,…
Stop subsidizing the super rich: alternatives to the Fed rate hike
Today is the day when the mystical magic of economics is played with by people in an echo chamber. And while the…
Banking inequity
I have a contract sitting around somewhere for a home equity loan with Gem Savings from around 1990. It was one page,…
Grandstanding congressmen and CEO pay
Reading an editorial about the Planned Parenthood inquisition, I saw a mention that a member of Congress had…
A prepper’s holiday season
The United States Army spends at least a million dollars on every guy (and yes- it’s still a guys-only club)…
The unintended side effects of the anti-Obamacare dolts
You’ve heard about businesses, big and small, threatening to move workers to part-time so as to avoid having to…
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