The popularity of shopping depended on the ancient urge for the modern, that old wish for something new. No one had considered the possibili...

I watched about ten minutes of today's bipartisan health care summit, catching some of Lamar Alexander and Nancy Pelosi. Two things stru...

I've never seen anyone suggest that growth in productivity might be the fuel for a growth in debt. The rate of productivity growth has b...

Anything you are not free to say "no" to, you are unable to say "yes" to. You can't really choose what you are not f...

Here's a curious little fact. In Obama's 2010 budget, he's showing mandatory expenses at $2.184 trillion. (Mandatory includes th...

We Americans live in the richest, most economically driven country in the history of the planet. And still we’re ambivalent about money and ...

I love Joe Biden. Dick Cheney? Well, not so much. And yet Cheney has won the last little tussle with Joe, and this, like so much related to ...

When our founding fathers wanted to encourage more innovation to make a better world, they gave us patents. Patents reward an inventor with ...

Apparently a real billboard expressing a genuine sentiment. I mean sentimental.

Hopefully we won't take our deficit problem too seriously this year but once the recession is clearly behind us, it will be important to...

Hank Paulson and Alan Greenspan were on Face the Nation today . The former Treasury Secretary and Fed Chairman may well represent as much as...

"McCain was in communication with Bernanke and Paulson, too, but to less useful effect. In one exchange with the Fed chairman, McCain c...

Been too long since I've posted a song for your enjoyment.

Talking about the struggles that Americans face in this recession, Obama said, " I hear about them in the letters that I read each nigh...

The Supreme Court realizes that the government is no longer the big dog and has rather blatantly rolled over for the corporation. I should b...

Today I heard such a sad story. A friend went to a monster truck show yesterday and reported that what he saw, "was big and loud."...

Leadership does not just begin with vision. It begins with getting people to confront the brutal facts and to act on the implications . - Ji...

I suspect that in the future, work teams will increasingly be coordinating their activities through the Internet and be less reliant on comp...

Fed quietly posts record $46.1-billion profit in 2009. I find this promises a fascinating alternative to us actually paying taxes. The Fed h...

Games mirror life in that they require some mix of skill and luck and have uncertain outcomes. One reason we love games is that that while w...