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Don’t Get Your Hopes Up

March 16, 2009

Actually, hope is a good thing. It’s good psychologically. It’s even good for the economy. It’s just that a systemic, global meltdown isn’t ready to disappear quite so quickly. It has been said that expectations are the largest factor in determining the ups and downs of the economy. A little hope is giving us the […]

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Odds And Ends

March 11, 2009

There are so many issues on which to comment that I can’t keep up. Each one deserves at least a book, as an antidote to all of the nonsense clogging up the airwaves, cable, the Internet and the dead tree media. Note: I have a special video treat for everyone staying to the end of […]

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Upside Down

February 24, 2009

A commentary by a noted economist. Reactions to that commentary on the Sunday talk shows. At first glance it appeared that the world had, overnight, turned upside down. First impressions aren’t always accurate. There was South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham (John McCain’s BFF) willing to consider nationalization of banks. New York Republican Congressman Peter King […]

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Decisions, Decisions

February 23, 2009

Actually, we don’t have a choice to make. It has been made for us and was never in question. We are going to save the bankers. Why? Because the bankers in government think exactly like the bankers, their friends, who are not in government. They all consider themselves and our banking system to be indispensable. […]

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Responding to the Financial 9-11

September 22, 2008

Did we learn anything from 9-11? Apparently not. Here we are in a financial 9-11 and everyone in Washington is reacting the same way. Is it possible that future candidates will wish they had refused to join the herd? Will they say that they voted for it but now are against it? All of a […]

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