November 8, 2011

Pricing Disaster

The world's largest debtors are facing the price of their borrowing habits.  The price is disaster--for citizens left victims of excessive government borrowing. Investors trade mountains of paper every day with a price: that price is what people...

May 30, 2011

Memorial Day: We Honor Warriors While Surrendering Our Civilization

If you live in the Western World, the debt you owe to brave men who died fighting for our principles is huge.  Their sacrifice in armed conflict allowed enterprise and self rule to flourish, lifting the lives of billions of people toward a hopef...

May 17, 2011

Just Who is Gouging Us on Gasoline?

Americans are fed up with high gas prices, and some U.S. senators are getting disgusted enough to act.  Appearing in front of an Exxon gas station last week, Charles Schumer and several other senators called for the elimination of tax deductions...

February 27, 2011

The Sharing of Miseries

On my birthday -- the real one in 1956, not the anniversaries of it which I try hard to miscount -- all government spending in this country (and I do mean all of it: federal, state, and local spending down to the meter maids ticketing 3400 lb. Chevy ...

February 22, 2011

Why We Bleed from Greed

We are wounded today, bleeding red ink, and everyone knows who is guilty.  Our suffering is the fault of a small group of people, here and abroad: they are the greedy.  You know them. We all can point them out.  Greedy people gobble up...

February 14, 2011

A Tipping Point Is Nearing

We are facing a tipping point.  There will soon be a crisis affecting US citizens beyond any experienced since the Great Depression.  And it may happen within the year.  This past week three awful developments put a dagger into the hop...