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U.S. Corporate Tax Rank Stinks

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The Tax Foundation releases its International Tax Competitiveness Index this week and the U.S. ranks 32 out of 34. From the WSJ: The index measures various factors that determine how friendly a government is to business and investment, including the amount of taxation and the complexity of tax rules. While Washington gets credit for refraining […]

Bye-Bye Boehner

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With the announced resignation of House Speaker John Boehner (R., Ohio) President Obama may end up missing him the most. Obama has “run circles around this Congress since John Boehner’s been speaker,” said Rep. Tim Heulskamp (R., Kansas). “We need a speaker who is going to be a conservative leader.” Amen to that. If we’ve […]

Precision Scoped Rifle: Part I

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Did you know the path of a bullet traveling towards a target 7 ½ football fields (750 yards) down range has a similar flight path to that of a football? The bullet has a high arching flight path that, like a football, either terminates on target or on the ground. Getting bullets consistently on target, […]

AOK with Vanguard GNMA

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You can take comfort in knowing you’re AOK with Vanguard GNMA. Pay no attention to the doomsayers calling for the bursting of the bond bubble. “Vanguard GNMA is one of my two largest holdings, and I would like to see it as one of your top two,” writes Dick Young in the September issue of […]

iPhone iOS9 Hack and Chinese Malware

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Want to earn a cool million? Are you familiar with a security breach at Apple’s app store? I was clued in to these stories from our in-house systems and network manager. A security firm is offering up the million dollar bounty, the largest to date and capped at $3 million, for the successful hack. “Rather than […]

Music Video: Way Back Home

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The Fed would do us all a whole lot of good by setting a proper course on interest rate increases. Instead it continues to pander to Wall Street and is five years late to the party. The Fed has clearly lost its “Way Back Home”. A better R&B quintet sound would be hard to find. […]

U.S. #16 Economic Freedom Index

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The Economic Freedom of the World index is out and once again the U.S. is slipping in the rankings. Global economic freedom increased slightly in this year’s report, but remains below its peak level of 6.92 in 2007. The average score increased to 6.86 in 2013, the most recent year for which data is available. […]

3 Winners, Second Debate

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Greetings from Exeter, New Hampshire where I’m embedded in a three-day precision scoped rifle course at Sig Sauer Academy. I’ll have much more for you on this incredible education in future posts, but the reason I bring it up relates to last night’s second GOP Presidential debate. One of my fellow students in the course […]

Steve Jobs and NEXT

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When I was at Babson College I had an internship at a start-up company. At one of our retreats we watched the following video featuring Steve Jobs which I was reminded of reading this WSJ article.  I recommend it to anyone thinking about going into business. I also can’t help but think there was an […]

Switzerland’s Foreign Policy

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When it comes to foreign policy, and how to run a country for that matter, the current gang of Republican Presidential candidates could learn a thing or two from Switzerland. Richard Rahn, a senior fellow at Cato and Chairman of the Institute for Global Economic Growth, writes: Being surrounded by countries that are jealous of […]