Tag Archives: government meddling

Life After the Day of Reckoning

Posted on October 18, 2011 by MN Gordon

The 2011 fiscal year ended on September 30th and the beans of U.S. Government revenue and spending have been counted up.  Total revenue for the year was $2.3 trillion.  Total spending for the year was $3.6 trillion.  The difference – … Continue reading →

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Let Them Fail

Posted on October 14, 2011 by MN Gordon

Good jobs are in high demand these days.  Yet, unfortunately, they’re in limited supply.  Gone are the days when any old hack could show up with a tie and a smile, shuffle papers around a cubicle, surf the internet all … Continue reading →

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Change We Can Believe In: Soak the Rich

Posted on September 27, 2011 by MN Gordon

Sometime in early 1848 French poet Alphonse de Lamartine had a change of appetite.  For whatever reason, he no longer took to gobbling up frog legs but to gobbling up the new, forward thinking, ideas of the day. It all … Continue reading →

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On Scientific Management of the Economy and Going for Broke

Posted on September 23, 2011 by MN Gordon

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 →

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