You as a small business owner or a soon to be retiree could live real well in South Carolina. As a business owner you know you can’t run a business as well as you’d like to when unions question or block you at every turn. If moving to a right-to-work state (where workers can’t be […]
Nuggets of Wisdom You can Use
You’ll be hard pressed to find a better group of scholars than those at the Cato Institute. I’ve learned a ton speaking with Chris Edwards, director of tax policy studies and editor of www.DownsizingGovernment.org (a treasure trove of information you can use to win the argument with your misguided friends). Chris expands on the failure […]
Mitch McConnell’s Senior Leadership
U.S. Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell is a key player in the National Right to Work debate. And he’s making it a central tenet to his 2014 U.S. Senate race in Kentucky. Kentucky.com explains the issue: The two leading candidates in next year’s U.S. Senate race in Kentucky displayed marked differences Tuesday on the controversial […]
The Future of Big Cities
New York’s new mayor, Bill de Blasio is yet another blow to the nation’s big cities. The WSJ reports: In 2000, Republicans led five of the nation’s largest dozen cities. By the end of 2012, they no longer led any. In Tuesday’s election, the candidate favored in opinion polls to be Seattle’s new mayor, Ed […]
Your Personal Financial Security Part I
Your personal financial security may not be as strong as it should be. You may be more vulnerable than you think. I called a client yesterday to review his portfolio and his wife quickly said he’d have to call me back because the police were at the house. He was filing a report because his […]
Don’t Just Do Something, Stand There!
Another example of investors heading for the exits at precisely the wrong time. This time it’s the largest bond fund PIMCO Total Return run by Bill Gross. The WSJ points out here. According to people familiar with the fund, its investors incurred an average loss of 1.4% over this period, nearly double the loss of […]
Socialism 101
This is what you get when you run out of other people’s money. Providence saw one of the largest percentage-point drops in aid from 2007 to 2012 among the nation’s 250 largest cities, according to an analysis by The Wall Street Journal of data provided by Merritt Research Services LLC. A few cities’ figures weren’t […]
Obamacare Operation!
Thanks to Obamacare, President Obama’s Job Approval poll chart looks like the tweezers in the game of Operation.
Boo! Brown University
After the way they treated New York’s police commissioner Ray Kelly why would any sensible person ever again choose to speak to the baby Boo birds at Brown University? The Wall Street Journal explains: In 2001, the year before Ray Kelly began his second tour as New York’s police commissioner, the city suffered 649 murders. In 2012, […]
Big-City Pension Cookers
The pressure on big cities continues to build thanks to overzealous promises by politicians in places like Springfield, IL. The Wall Street Journal continues its in depth review of the ugly mess here. It pays for veteran firefighters and police officers here to retire around the anniversary of their hiring date—but it’s costly for this […]
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