Category: Reflections

On June 19, 2009, when. Treasury Secretary Geithner sat before the Senate’s Appropriations Committee, Sen.Inouye (D-HI) asked the following question: The American people, Mr. Secretary, …

If you rattle around enough, you strike up some unlikely friendships. One of the most unlikely friends I have, at least unlikely to somebody brought …

Now that President Obama is running Government Motors, he will have free reign to direct the automaker to produce vehicles that will be smaller, less …

I was born in Michigan. I now live in California. Those two states are currently the biggest screwups on the economic landscape. Was it something …

I live in a leafy, ravined residential section of Raleigh, North Carolina. Our neighborhood, a couple of miles from downtown and close to a major …

In a widely-quoted interview, popular investment newsletter publisher Marc Faber told Bloomberg: I am 100% sure that the u.S. will go into hyperinflation. The problem …

Waterboarding is back in the news. Whether for or against, Cheney, Pelosi, and Obama have all been struggling to find the proper spin for decisions …

You’ve no doubt seen the public service announcement on television that states that in America one person out of eight is currently going hungry. A …

President Obama made the derisive comment, “If private insurers say that the marketplace provides the best quality healthcare, if they tell us that they’re offering …

A recent story in the L.A. Times caught my attention, because it addresses an issue I have written a good deal about and it has …