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The Way Out of Our Economic Mess
Something big is going on. You can just feel it. Unfortunately, the world’s two biggest clowns are on the case. On Monday, in between Wall Street’s 33 percent markdown of American Airlines’ stock, President Obama took a moment to markdown … Continue reading
On Scientific Management of the Economy and Going for Broke
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke should never have left Princeton. He’s much better suited for a lifetime of pontification than real work. Not that chairing the Federal Reserve is real work. Yet, even so, at least as a professor his … Continue reading
Why U.S. Treasuries are No Longer the Safest Investment in the World
The world’s a humbling place. It’ll change right before your very eyes and you don’t even know it…until it’s too late. Where markets are concerned this can be an expensive and chastening lesson. Not long ago it was common knowledge … Continue reading
Controlling Economic Diarrhea with Adhesive Tape
Some people never learn. Give a klutz a hammer and he’ll smash his thumb every time. Give a boozehound a bottle of Strawberry Boone’s Farm and he’ll guzzle it down en route to get another and another…until it practically kills … Continue reading
