Return to the Gold Standard?

Small children are enticed by shiny objects.On NPR this afternoon, I heard this discussion on the gold standard.  Newt is trying to suck up to Ron Paul supporters by saying he is for the gold standard.  The discussion on...

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Mea Culpa!

Recanting is all the rage these days.  It worked for Galileo, right?I renounce the error of my ways!  I have been shown the light by helpful commentators!Everything, it turns out, I have posted in this blog was flat-out...

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The College-Status Conundrum

Statistics show that if you go to college, you will make more money in life, compared to those that don't go.  But if everyone goes to college, does everyone make more money?  No, and this illustrates the fallacy of using...

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Bad Financial Choices or Government Malfeasance?

These poor folks bought a brand-new house at the height of the Real Estate Bubble, without selling their old house first.   Now they are screwed, so it has to be someone else's fault, right?  Note how close the neighbor's...

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Playing the Poor versus the Poor

Getting poor white people to battle poor black people has been a game played since the days of the Confederacy.It is interesting to parse some of the on-line comments sections on the news sites these days.  One common theme you...

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Change the Rules of the Game?

Should we change the rules of the game, or just keep playing and enforce the rules we have?Reform is a word on everyone's mind right now.  Everyone, it seems has an idea on how we can throw out all the old rules and start over...

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Google Chrome and Google Docs (Wither Apple?)

Google Chrome has some interesting features, and Google's suite of web applications is pretty interesting.I am backing up my hard drive, as it is acting up again.  I have six computers, so instead of doing "backups" I merely...

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Good News is Not Considered "News"

 The Dow has risen steadily since December.  But the news media does not report this as 'news'.I was doing my monthly net worth calculation to see how things were going.  Now that we are out of debt, it is an easier...

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The Town Clerk Who Wasn't

Central New York can be beautiful in the summer months. But the place is so political that it kind of is a buzz-kill. We recently sold our home in Central New York, on Cayuga Lake.  It was located in the Town of Ledyard,...

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