September 13, 2022 I tested Covid positive on Friday. I tested Covid positive today the Tuesday following. I had a half day in full Covid mode stuffed… Continue Reading
“Trade Wars are Easy to Win”…Iowa farmers…. September 8, 2019 … are desperately hoping Donald Trump is right! I always come back from my wife’s Iowa reunions with new insights. Her cousin who farms… Continue Reading
Dear Denmark, August 21, 2019 Dear Denmark, Please reconsider your hasty refusal to sell Greenland to the United States. Remember, our President is a genius, a very smart businessman… Continue Reading
Sepsis, Isis, Trumpsis August 6, 2019 Rot, mayhem, stupidity = world economic collapse. Sustained and amplified by Republican politicians hiding under a naked President’s petticoats. Continue Reading
Abood today June 27, 2018 I got a question from WDIO today on the case which guts public employee unions. I returned one email reaction. Then I returned a… Continue Reading
At Hibbing last night June 27, 2018 My computer just died so I am composing this on my cell phone. I hate doing this. I attended a fascinating debate in Hibbing… Continue Reading
The PBS Vietnam Series gets me thinking September 18, 2017 I watched all the Stanley Karnow episodes in the 1990’s about Vietnam but I think Kevin Burns will bring a little more nuance at… Continue Reading
China’s US Treasuries put in perspective October 7, 2011 Every week or so I have to confess to borrowing heavily from Andrew Sullivan’s posts and links. This post on the myth that China… Continue Reading
My Great Grandfather was legal September 19, 2011 But he wasn’t a very good farmer. I’ve been doing a little digging into family history on the eve of a family reunion. Here’s… Continue Reading
Walmart’s Free enterprise/lunch July 31, 2008 I recently heard the author of the book Free Lunch give a speech in which he said that the Sam Walton descendents had earned… Continue Reading
On both hands July 14, 2008 Harry Truman said once that he wanted a one-handed economist because they were always saying, “on the other hand.” N. Gregory Mankiw writes in… Continue Reading
I agree with the majority of economists November 30, 2006 Except on the minimum wage. Continue Reading
