Yankee Gone Home
Unlike Hillary Clinton, I’ve been a lifelong Yankee fan. I have on my wall a poster with the signatures of every Yankee member of the …
Holding Patterns
Greg Mortenson, author of the bestseller “Three Cups of Tea,” and builder of schools for girls in Afghanistan and Pakistan, was our keynote speaker at …
Candy Keynes
British economist John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946) is all the rage these days. Time magazine rated him the number 1 economist of the 20th century, and …
Governmental Domestic Product
New York Times’ front page story on October 30, 2009, was headlined, “Economy Grew 3.5% .” It contained this surprise definition of Gross Domestic Product …
Sex, Marx, and Football
If you think the annual American Economic Association (AEA) meetings are stuffy affairs of ivory-tower academics, think again. This year’s event was held in the …
Franklin and His Critics
Was Benjamin Franklin an indispensable public servant, or a cunning chameleon? A believer, or a heretic? A hard-headed entrepreneur, or an opportunistic privateer? A devoted …
W. Cleon Skousen, R.I.P.
My uncle, W. Cleon Skousen, died on Jan. 9, 2006, at the age of 92. He influenced millions of lives, especially out West, as a …
Peter Drucker, R.I.P.
The world’s foremost financial guru, Peter Drucker, died on Veterans’ Day, Nov. II, 2005, at the age of 94. I interviewed Drucker for Forbes in …
Weighing the Gilded Heroes
Were the giants of the Gilded Age – John D. Rockefeller, Andrew Carnegie, Jay Gould, and J.P. Morgan – pious frauds who exploited and bilked …