This afternoon (April 24) at 1PM ET I'll be on WDEV (96.1 FM, 550 AM) in VT with Bill Sayre discussing how our federal system is working in addressing the C19 crisis. Appropriately the show is postponed from its usual morning slot because of Gov. Scott's news conference at which he More...
We Know It’s Deserved.
I’m economically conservative and a capitalist. Higher wages will tend to raise prices. There will be at least a marginal loss of job opportunities when paying very low wages is no longer an option. However, mini More...
I just qualified for over $6000 of rebates which didn’t change my behavior in any way. You are paying me to do what I would’ve done anyway.
My old car had over 100,000 miles and was beginning to require frequent expensive repairs. Time for new wheels.
I decided to look at plug-in More...
Certainly the tax bill, which is now close to becoming law, is far from perfect. Just as certainly it has some things in it that needed to be done like lowering the industrialized world’s highest corporate tax rate, doubling the standard deduction for individuals, and wiping out many (but not eno More...
We all know the Chinese proverb:
“You give a poor man a fish and you feed him for a day. You teach him to fish and you give him an occupation that will feed him for a lifetime.”
Elon Musk, founder of Tesla and SpaceX, thinks that robots will do all the More...
The way the US currently taxes corporate income is toxic for American workers when coupled with globalization. It turns free trade, which I think is a good thing, into unfair trade. It is a bizarre structure which only its parents – lobbyists and those corporations which benefit from it – could l More...
Why are people who are passionate about saving us from the perils of global warming often found in opposition to natural gas drilling and pipelines?
If you’re worried about global warming and think we need to do something quickly, you should love natural gas. It emits 50% less CO2More...
Every economist worth her or his salt has a theory about why the great recession was followed by a nearly jobless recovery. Historically, lots of jobs are created in a surge when the economy is recovering; didn’t happen this time; many people left the work force and never came back.
I’m n More...
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