Magnitude Matters

My wife and daughter just returned from a delightful long weekend in Santa Fe, NM. The entire family will return soon to Saint Francis's...

" Oh, you left out a bunch of stuff ." - Thornton Melon Imagine being a fly on the wall overhearing various nefarious conversation...

We should fund students instead of systems. That is the ubiquitous and powerful tagline from Corey DeAngelis and the larger pro-school-choi...

While the fact is obvious that changes in regime leadership imply winners and losers, there are subtle, deeper truths that remain underappre...

The quick versus the dead . And a more complete review . Imagine various conversations at a board of directors meeting of a major corporatio...

It has been too long since I shared things worth reading... Scott Sumner explains just how rigged it all is in America, and how despite t...

About a year ago, I posted on Trump looking at what I saw as the reasons to be optimistic and pessimistic. Let's revisit that now that ...

When you pose the question in that form, the answer should be obvious. Yet time and again we see well intended but mistaken people attempti...

America is under attack. Literally thousands of people are invading from our exposed southern flank. We must summon great courage to repel t...

Well, we can all breathe a sigh of relief. The momentum won't end. At least that is the story now that Oklahoma City Mayor Mick Cornett ...

What happens when you combine hundreds of images of a sunset into one image? Magic . Here and here are a couple of takes on photos of th...

Imagine two rooms: one is a group of consumers and one is a group of producers. For now the rooms are completely isolated from one another. ...

In 2009 in the midst of an economic and financial crisis, the President of the United States chose to direct his administration's effort...

On today's NPR Morning Edition Bloomberg Businessweek assistant managing Editor Paul Barrett was trying to express concern but instead ...

As a continuation of the on-going discussion I have with colleagues , one sends me this link to a WSJ article by Dallas Fed Chief Richard F...

How could this be ? Back in the 80s a government program was hatched with the explicit goal of ensuring the poor had access to telephones an...

In a surprising and somewhat hopeful development, SEC member Luis Aguilar has told the WSJ  (gated) that he has now changed his position on ...

Copying the success of the Department of Homeland  Civil Rights Abuses  Security, Obama has  eluded to a Secretary of Business  in his n...