Category: Politics

The Treasury’s Checkbook: Healthy or Not Healthy as We Peer Into the Debt Default Abyss?

Looking at a couple of statements from your day-to-day checking account, I tell new clients in our first working meeting, is like looking at the lab results your doctor orders when you have a physical. Staring out from those pieces of paper [pdf files] are a bunch of numbers that […]

Friedman’s Law of the First Thing: Macroeconomics and The Sequester

Imagine that you live in a world with three people: a farmer, a tool builder, and a tailor. Got it? So the farmer grows the food all of ’em eat, the tool builder builds the tools all of ’em use, and the tailor makes the clothes all of ’em put […]

The Tax Sunsets (Mostly) Sunset

We can, I suspect, all agree that taxes impact behavior. To see that this is so, one need only look to Vancouver, Washington, a Portland suburb adjacent to the Oregon/Washington border, where many Vancouverites go out of their way to do most of their shopping across the river in Portland, Oregon, where there is […]

Re: Guns and Gun Accidents, Johnny Cash Sings “I Hung My Head”

Johnny Cash, in his later years, made some truly wonderful albums, tastefully aided by producer wunderkind Rick Rubin. My fave is American IV: The Man Comes Around, in which you can delight in hearing Cash sing, for instance, First Time Ever I Saw Your Face (could there be a voice more […]

The Golden Gate and the Gun: Two Equally-Easily-Deadlies?

The Twitterverse is abuzz today with talk of Bob Costas’s Sunday Night football comments about guns. The context for those comments, briefly, is that a day or so earlier a professional football player in Kansas City named Jovan Belcher had allegedly shot and killed his girlfriend, with whom he had […]

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