HOW FREE IS OUR MARKET ECONOMY…AND WHAT’S OUR LABOR WORTH? (…it depends on how we define –free- and who gets to decide what our labor is worth) The current anxiety over when the Fed will decide about raising interest rates
PLEDGES NOTWITHSTANDING…THINK THIRD PARTY THAT WALRUS SAID… (…and I’m bringing along a mamma grizzly to that political bed) Every four years America shifts into a frenzied anticipatory mode for its presidential election cycle, much as if it were expecting a
ADVICE FOR THE POLITICALLY LOVELORN… (…and have we got some choices to think about for you!) It’s still way too early to make any predictions about next year’s presidential elections, and who will be the two parties’ choices for we,
THE CITY OF NEW ORLEANS RETURNING TO LIFE FROM THAT DISASTER… (…a work in progress even after a decade of effort…while a sense of loss still lingers on) It’s been ten years since hurricane Katrina ripped the heart out of
BRAIN-DEAD WALKING ZOMBIES OF THE TEXTING WORLD (…keypad junkies of the oblivious kind) A new and growing form of addiction seems to be among us these days…text…or…text messaging…which is fast developing as a new species of erstwhile “humans.” For lack
THE ASHLEY MADISON HACKING CAPER… (…outing people behaving badly…) Hackers are to the internet universe what cockroaches are to anyone’s home. Sooner or later, no matter how carefully things are kept clean, tidy, or secure, they’ll pop up. To be blunt
WALL STREET…DEFLATING LIKE A MARGINAL SOUFFLE… (from its over-hyped prices beyond any true value of real earnings) For the past four years Wall Street has been on a party binge. Now it’s deflating like a marginal soufflé from its over-hyped