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Jobs Bill Alternate Wisdom

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Let’s do the numbers.  Obama’s job bill costs $475,000,000,000.00 dollars.  The plan claims to create (or save) 2.5M jobs. First off, notice the “or save” part of the claim.  That’s the same rhetoric used with the first stimulus, however the … Continue reading

Advantage of Inflation Is Monetary Manipulation

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I’ve been wandering the web, finding resources about macro economics. I have always thought inflation is bad. After all, who wants prices to rise? So I looked on Wikipedia. What I found confirmed developing discontent. “Inflation’s effects on an economy are various … Continue reading

I Am Not Taxed Enough – by Bill Gates and Warren Buffet

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Warren Buffet and Bill Gates have been making noises about wanting higher tax rates. In a recent BBC interview Bill Gates said, “Well, the United States has a huge budget deficit, so taxes are going to have to go up. … Continue reading

Word Twisting – Words Without Meaning

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I’ve noticed word twisting this election season in ways that steal meaning from communication between two people. To a person who values words that have meaning and content rather than emotional effervescence, this trend is offensive.  I wonder if the … Continue reading

Bucket Polls – Betting Against America

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Obama leads all the foreign opinion poles of who should be President, by rather large margins. IMHO, this is pretty much prima facia evidence that Obama’s policies are best for everybody else except America. Let me explain. This is analogous … Continue reading

Gift Giving Economies vs. Capitalism

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We’ve changed in the last 20 years.  When Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait, it was because he saw his richer brother nation and wanted to take what they had and use it for himself.  The world responded with horror and we … Continue reading

Fairness and Equality and the Common Good

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What is fair and equal? There are the four choices.  We need to pick one of these. Realize our Constitution doesn’t dabble with concepts of fairness, and speaks only in terms of equality.  Skipping the questionable dialectic discussion equating fairness … Continue reading

Loss of Private Goods

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I recently had a chance to read Economics: A Very Short Introduction, by Partha Dasgupta, published in 2007. Page 52-54 is a passage teaching the definition of private goods, public non-exclusable goods, and externalities, and then applying these terms as … Continue reading

Anymore, We Don’t Value Our Citizens First

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Anymore, it seems public figures and politicians are tripping over each other to highlight the need to care for illegal immigrants, or refugees of foreign wars, displaced individuals around the globe, or nearly anybody except “Joe Plumber,” citizen of the … Continue reading

Trump is Wrong about Apple

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I may want to help. It may be good to help. But I don’t want to be forced to help. In the case of Apple v. FBI, the business efficiency favored by Donald Trump is not agreeable to me. As … Continue reading

Winning and Losing the Non-Election

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Well, Donald Trump got spanked over the weekend when a lot of presidential voting delegates who do not like him were put into position. Regardless of what the various state citizens value or who they would vote for in a … Continue reading

Left Leaning Media: Get Off Your High Horse

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Over the weekend, Dan Rather stood up for journalistic integrity, demanding that what Trump says must be called a “lie”. This, after the WSJ Editor-in-Chief Gerard Baker said (paraphrasing), “Let’s distinguish between false facts and calling someone a liar; one … Continue reading

Alternative Facts – Reverse Obligation

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Issues and arguments entwined with consistency and facts can be productive. Everybody today is screaming for facts and truth, and accusing each other of alternate facts. If you ask for this from others, then it would be appropriate for you … Continue reading

Was that Insurance, Policy, Coverage, or Payment ?

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Real story. October 2017. Samuel lives in Florida. He was laid off from his job, but was capable enough to start his own consulting business. That’s what he’s supposed to do in America. Strike out on his own, and make … Continue reading

A New Deal for Globalization

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I came across “A New Deal for Globalization” by Kenneth Scheve and Matthew J. Slaughter (Foreign Affairs, Vol 86, Issue 4, July/August 2007). From the 3rd year of Bush’s presidency, it’s a bit technically dated and ripe with political overtones, … Continue reading

Same is Unfair

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Giving the same sized government Covid-19 rent reimbursement to Louisville renters and New York renters is “unfair”, so says Kenneth Romero. He claims giving the same amount to everybody is a “cycle of unfairness.” IMHO, if you’re living in New … Continue reading

Biden actions to build Black wealth – appraisal confusion

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Biden’s new plan is to, “take on discrimination in home appraisals” and “address inequality in home appraisals”. What? How can you mandate what an appraised value will be? Appraisers don’t set prices, they simply report them. The present administration envisions … Continue reading




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