There has been no mention of Hillary Clinton’s ethics by any of her rivals—not even from Bernie Sanders, who surged ahead of Mrs. Clinton in the recently released New Hampshire primary poll. Democrats are “beginning to freak out”, writes Kimberley Strassel in the WSJ. Here is Mrs. Clinton trying out an inequality argument, as she […]
Carly Fiorina—Anti-Crony Capitalism
In an interesting theme in Carly Fiorina’s campaign—opining on the crony capitalism that is so much a part of our economy and politics—she notes, “What we have now is less and less free market and more and more crony capitalism.” The Cato Institute’s Michael Tanner explains: Crony capitalism is an insidious system in which businesses’ […]
Larry Bird Interview
The Indiana Pacers will bring out the Hickory jerseys in select games this year to honor the 30th anniversary of the Hoosiers. Here’s a great interview with Pacers President Larry Bird taking a walk down memory lane with Dan Patrick:
“Superfund Blitzkrieg”
The Wall Street Journal writes in Notable & Quotable: From a letter to the editor in the Silverton (Colo.) Standard published July 30 regarding an Environmental Protection Agency plan to plug a leaking mine in the area; on Aug. 5 the EPA, trying to stop a leak at the nearby Gold King mine, accidentally released […]
How to Buy a Boat Part IV
Money can’t buy you happiness, but it can buy you a boat. So with that in mind, Skip and I planned out our road (and sea) trip to Long Island. We chose Long Island because there were about five to ten boats of the specific make and model we were targeting for sale at various […]
Remembering the Beatles
In today’s Wall Street Journal, Marc Myers explains Beatlemania, writing: From a cultural standpoint, Beatlemania in 1965 far exceeded teenage rages for Frank Sinatra in the 1940s and Elvis Presley in the ’50s—thanks largely to the proliferation of television sets and portable phonographs. In the months before their appearance at Shea Stadium, the Beatles unleashed […]
The Global Anti-Establishment Furor Continues
Beginning in 2009 with the rise of the American Tea Party, and continuing throughout European elections that have seen folks like Marine Le Pen’s National Front party, and Nigel Farage’s UK Independence Party make massive gains in elections, the world has been witnessing a rise in anti-establishment politics unlike any seen since at least the […]
How Much is $100 Worth in Your State?
Take a look at this page I found by the Tax Foundation. You can read it here:
Toxic Sludge and the EPA
Last week, the EPA’s hazmat team, inspecting an abandoned Gold Rush-era mine near Durango, Colorado, breached a retaining wall that dumped three million gallons of toxic sludge into a creek that is a tributary of the Animas River, writes the WSJ. The plume of lead, arsenic, mercury, copper, cadmium and other heavy metals turned the […]
Richard Russell on the Bull Market
Richard Russell continues to get the job done at age 91. Here he talks about Monday’s market gains. Everything that I read regarding the US economy is bullish. The only newspaper that dares to publish bearish comments on the US economy is Investor’s Business Daily. The mass of comments about the US economy is so lopsided, […]