If we’re ever going to take real steps towards reducing the debt, we are going to have to make cuts in sacred cows. And we’re going to have to take steps that raise real revenue in a way that doesn’t… Continue Reading
When a pastor loses his (or her) faith, that’s a real problem. Pastors may develop some marketable skills but apparently for some it’s hard to market them, especially in a tough job market. I feel more than a little bit… Continue Reading
Ten months ago, I made a few SWAGs about (among other things) politics. Those SWAGs included the following: Foolishly, Democrats will campaign in 2010 against George W. Bush. This will fail and result in gains by Republicans, but more in… Continue Reading
When we lived in Tennessee, one of the more jarring cultural differences I found was being presented with a bill for emergency services. Paramedics, firefighters, and the like are certainly not free and if we ever used them I fully… Continue Reading
The other day I was escorting a prospect through the firm’s lobby. There were several people there, including another attorney who was talking with an attractive woman in her forties, and this attorney said, “You might want to talk to… Continue Reading
I’m sure that real economists have thought about this issue already and my thoughts are well behind formal economic teaching. But for me, it started with The Wife asking for a packet of coffee sweetener for her margarita. We observed… Continue Reading
It’s always a little bit dangerous to compare ancient economics to modern ones. But if one takes what a typical blue-collar worker (say, a butcher) makes in a year as the index, the second-century Roman charioteer Gaius Appuleius Diocles earned… Continue Reading
Thanks to Reader Maxwell James for pointing out this article, which lends a remarkable perspective to a matter which has caused so many people so much anguish recently. If the Maggie Halberman/Ben Smith article is right, the Park51 project to… Continue Reading
Why in Apollo’s name is my wife’s insurance company giving my urologist the runaround about paying the bill for my vasectomy? They aren’t going to pay the measly $700 left over after our cash co-pay for the procedure because they… Continue Reading
I don’t follow things like initial public offerings very closely, but I was interested to learn that Tesla Motors had an IPO today. Had I known, I’d have considered taking a flier on it. The Tesla Roadster inspired automotive lust… Continue Reading