I didn’t write these, but I thought I’d share them: How the stock market works: Once upon a time in a village, a man appeared and announced to the villagers that he would buy monkeys for $10 each. The villagers, seeing that there were many monkeys around,...
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Why Johnny Q. Public can’t pay his mortgage but can bail out Wall Street
Our system is broke. It’s now as morally bankrupt as Wall Street. The American dream is now a complete and utter farce and the belief that the people we elect actually “represent” us should be forgotten as fast as they forgot us with this...
Hillary is reading my site- but missing my target.
Juan directed me to Politico.com and this article about Hillary’s latest statements. Clinton pits herself against business – Mike Allen – Politico.com “We’ll take on the credit card companies so that you and your families aren’t drowning in debt....
A candidate who wasn’t born on the filing deadline
One of the digs in the DDN “endorsement” of Jane was ” Ms. Mitakides, though her credentials aren’t great – lacking local involvement” showcased her role as a candidate of opportunity and fund raising ability, not of conviction. On the other...
Obama asks? Esrati Answers: How can the next president better help small business and entrepreneurs thrive?
While I’m lucky to have 20 or so people engaged in a discussion online, being a celebrity presidential candidate with a 100 million dollar plus budget gets a lot of attention. So when Senator Obama asks a question on the business social networking site LinkedIn-...
I taught a kid to fish yesterday
The old proverb goes, give a man a fish, he eats today, teach him how to fish and he eats for a lifetime. Yesterday, I taught a kid to fish. When I’m your congressman, I plan on teaching every American child how to fish and I’ll share the secret:...
Misplaced priorities in Columbus
Let’s see. Ohio is third in foreclosures in the country. The Ohio Supreme Court ruled that the system of school funding in Ohio was unconstitutional – over 10 years ago. What is most pressing to Columbus legislators? A “stripper bill.” Yes,...
Thoughts on the election.
Ohio just redeemed itself from the put us in the stupid column by voting no on big tobacco’s end run around a smoke free state and saying no to the racetrack owners with their ploy to monopolize gambling for themselves. Montgomery County finally told Chuck...
CAVE people and other thoughts-
Do you know what a NIMBY is? It’s a person who protests- you can do this- as long as it’s Not In My Back Yard (NIMBY). Well they have a neighbor- the CAVE people- Citizens Against Virtually Everything- or that’s one of the things I learned at the...
My op-ed was not about levies. It was about governmental stupidity by design.
Ohio is not “broke.” We waste fortunes propping up tiny school fiefdoms like Jefferson Township, where the superintendent costs more than $550 per student while buses get cut and levies keep coming. At the same time, Mike Turner helps grow the Pentagon budget from $…
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