Category: Reflections

Generally reluctant to vote Republican, I would have nonetheless supported Jack Kemp for president simply because of his passionate positions on free enterprise and race …

Wise men, from the first millennia suburbs of Athens to today’s Ph.D.s in linguistics at MIT, have long observed that if a problem, social or …

In modern economic parlance, the terms inequality and inequity are sometimes used interchangeably to mean unfair. This is not good. Used properly, inequality is a …

Being the son of an immigrant from Hungary, I can’t help but notice stories about that charming country with the notoriously difficult language. As it …

The flamboyant professor Ward Churchill, who taught at the University of Colorado at Boulder until he was fired in 2007, was the victor on April …

On March 16, former President George W. Bush announced in Calgary that he is planning to write a memoir “so when the history of this …

Pundits are now sitting around concocting elaborate explanations for the poor performance of their beloved capital markets. I remember watching Wall Street Week, listening to …

On March 20, The Wall Street Journal reported, in respect to the AIG bonuses: “The Obama administration said that it was pursuing all avenues for …

A newscaster just informed me that “the market” was up yesterday. This man was quite chipper, presumably because “the market” has been plummeting for months. …

The drug wars in Mexico are devastating that country. Thousands are dying, the tourist economy is affected, and fear and intimidation have become facts of …