My recent survey produced a variety of ideas, but most of them had these common elements: replace the Internal Revenue Code with a simpler model, encourage businesses to increase employment, and insist upon tort reform everywhere.
(more…)

Everyone can finally stop arguing about whether we will see a V-shaped recovery or a U-shaped recovery and start accepting that what we are going to see is an L-shaped recovery.
(more…)

The British National Party (BNP) have been hitting the headlines a lot this week which if that was their main aim, it has been a success. However, the news yesterday told us that the BNP has compared UK Generals to Nazi War criminals. An unusual way to win over the voters you might think?
(more…)

Who made the following threat? "If they do not now accept our terms, they may expect a rain of ruin from the air the likes of which has never been seen on this earth."
(more…)

A reader asked what instantly enters my head when I hear the words "Electoral College."
(more…)

This past week The Capital Area Association of Realtors released June home sales figures. For the second month in a row the association decided to do a previous month comparison, and year over year comparison. Why would they start a previous month comparison? In my opinion because the numbers sound better than year over year comparisons. What is being reported is factual, closed home sales for June were up over 20% from May. Sounds great doesn't it?
(more…)

The Federal Reserve has determined that household net worth–all the things of value a person has like houses and checking accounts–dropped nine percent in the last three months. This is the biggest quarterly decline in over fifty years. Things seem bad for the average American these days, but nine percent is nothing compared to the 25% drop in wealth of Dell Inc. CEO Michael Dell.
(more…)

If who are thinking of running for public office — or ran for one and had your head handed to you in basket and do not know why — this article is for you.
(more…)

My experience in political campaigns convinced me that momentum has musical qualities: rhythm, meter, and tempo.
(more…)

How did he do it? Every politician would give his eyeteeth to learn the secret. Millions of adoring fans, the megabucks, the rush and crush of the media, the worldwide fame . . .
(more…)