Tag Archives: liberty
Requiem for a Dictator: Kim Jong-il
There are places on the face of the earth where, although the sun may occasionally shine, they’ve never seen a ray of light. There’s a cold dry Siberian no man’s land that extends east from the Ural Mountains to the … Continue reading
Change We Can Believe In: Soak the Rich
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
Independence Day Celebration
[Editor’s Note: Today we break from our customary observations on money and markets. Monday’s Independence Day, after all, and while we’re still hard at work, we hope you have already commenced your holiday weekend. But before you hang out the … Continue reading
History Is Coming
Mother Teresa once said, “If you can’t feed a hundred people, then just feed one.” The way things are going, soon many people won’t only not be able to feed one person…they won’t be able to feed themselves. According to … Continue reading
