Let’s look forward to the year 2000

Most of my future I can figure out with some form on certainty. I will get home some time during the month of May. I will get married to a fantastic spitfire of a woman later this summer. We will spend a week in Kauai and have a fantastic time. I will start my [...]

Well….

I had an interesting evening. I had to deliver an item and the document needed to be digitally signed so I had to bring along a toughbook. The toughbook did not work as designed. In fact, it completely locked my out of the network and nobody could fix it till after 0700. The promotion [...]

10 of This to 1 of That

10 things I would like to say to 10 different people right now:

1. You make work not seem like work.

2. I don’t care what you believe in, we don’t. We are happy with the way we live our lives.

3. I wish that you could see your life through my eyes. [...]

Financial meltdowns of the past

The current financial meltdown isn’t the largest nor the first of its kind. We’ve had our fair share and we’ll probably have them in the future. Neatorama has a great list of them that includes highlights like

The Panic of 1907 Wall Street crash of 1929 Great Depression 1973 Oil Crisis Black Monday Savings [...]

Economists on the bailout plan

A group of over 100 leading economists sent a letter to congress outlining their reservations with the proposed bailout plan. Their concerns mirror my own – I need more answers before anything is done. The full text is below

As economists, we want to express to Congress our great concern for the plan [...]

Todays required reading

Friedman and Zakaria are two of my favorite journalists/authors and they have written a pair of editorials that are definitely worth sharing.

Both editorials focus on the challenges we face as a nation and what we may see in the future. If you don’t read anything else today you should read these – and [...]

Economics – its almost like a hobby

The geopolitical landscape is constantly changing and this author believes that we, the United States, are on the verge of no longer being a prime superpower. Competition from the EU and China is going to be fierce and we must change a number of things to reassert ourselves and turn our nation around. [...]