“…..nothing lasts forever but the earth and sky It slips away, and all your money won’t another minute buy.” Kansas, “Dust in the Wind” September is a pivotal month for the EU. I wrote here in late June that the EU Summit Meeting … Continue reading
I’ve not been reading much about the governors of the 57 50 states in this year’s election. But this isn’t a minor political issue, particularly if the numbers and locations of those governors might prove beneficial to one presidential campaign … Continue reading
For someone who as a kid built a Lionel electric train village on the ping pong table in the basement… …this is just too cool. … Continue reading
For decades the Catholic Church in America has been a faithful wing of the liberal cause … defender’s of the “social equality”, “redistributionist” agenda of The Left … out of some naïve sense of moral superiority. It makes no difference that The Left stands … Continue reading
Offered with only one comment as none other is necessary, given the rants of the last two days: In a world in which entitlement-based political institutions are coming unglued, the monetary institutions that have welded themselves to those institutions are … Continue reading
Yesterday’s long rant will be followed today by a short one. The economic and philosophic underpinnings of the institutionalists over the last 60 years are derived from the theories of John Maynard Keynes. Keynesianism assumes certain truths are immutable and … Continue reading
I wrote here some time ago that there is a paradox at the core of our world. There are equally powerful forces at work, one creating ever more powerful centralized political institutions, one creating ever more powerful individuals and ever … Continue reading
I have tried to stay well away from the conspiracy theories that are rampant in the blogosphere these days. One of the reasons I laid down the data driven approach with this blog was to tamp down this temptation. Stated simply, … Continue reading
I was rummaging around the internet the other day and happened across the US Energy Information Agency. Never heard of it, but with Obama adding something on the order of 400,000 civilians to the federal workforce since he took office … Continue reading
Der Speigel is reporting tonight (Sunday evening) that the IMF has had enough of Greece’s foot-dragging. Reports came out last month that the Greeks, who are supposed to reduce government employee headcount by approximately 150,000 in the next couple years, and some … Continue reading