So far, so good. In early January, I predicted a bull market for stocks this year. From the Union Tribune The bulls weren’t bullish eno...

I've started Charles Murray's book, Coming Apart. More to say when I'm done but just this first impression reading about how vas...

The budget is a beautiful thing. It forces a people to translate their warm and fuzzy feelings about politics into concrete priorities and n...

Holocaust survivor Victor Frankl makes his case for what matters most. And then ...

There was a great piece of news released yesterday by the Bureau of Labor Statistics here . Multifactor productivity is up. A lot.This might...

The Sumerians invented civilization. Among other things, it was in Sumeria that humanity had the first pottery wheel, first school, first ...

A couple of weeks ago, Republican defenders of Rush Limbaugh said that Bill Maher, in his standup act, had also made offensive remarks about...

We like to think that happiness is a goal compatible with every other. While I think that it is as worthwhile a measure of life as any, I th...

Let's be clear. If you are a politician who says that you don't like deficit spending but you ... 1. don't know specifically ...

Apple is often hailed as one of the most creative companies in the world, and for good reason. They've passed Exxon in market value, the...

Capa’s photograph shows the moment when all the unvoiced hopes in that photograph – in that look – come true. And not just the hopes of...

"They aren't talking about banning contraceptives. They're only saying that employers don't have to pay for them," fri...

50% of Americans now disapprove of Obama's performance. In spite of what has seemed to many of us a nearly surreal GOP primary season, i...

It's 9 PM ET on Super Tuesday and Santorum could still win this thing. Wow. I should be horrified but have to admit that what this sugg...

It's fascinating that one of the examples of "technocratic leadership" that Gates refers to in this video is someone who simpl...

I was wondering the other day why Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich often seem so angry. Then it occurred to me that this might be inevitable....

The NASDAQ has doubled since Obama took office. Obviously, those Wall Street capitalists haven't appreciated the seriousness of the GO...

If the federal debt were suddenly set to zero, there would be no Treasury bills. Greenspan fretted about this when we got a surplus under Cl...

Today Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke spoke before the House. Essentially, they were upset with him less for anything he was doing with monetary p...