I spent a good part of yesterday just trying to wrap my head around everything that’s occurring in the financial world. I haven’t finished that yet, but I hope to tease out some conclusions on what this says for liberalism vs. conservatism. The conservative part is easy. “Free” markets? Ain’t no such thing, or at […]
I live in Morton, Ill. – a village of roughly 16-thousand people that’s ten miles east of Peoria. We moved here almost a year ago from a western Chicago suburb. It’s a nice town. I have no complaints. It is a very religious place. There are many churches, and people here often drop religious language […]
Something else other than economics… This is a great short post from Matthew Yglesias: The Conservative Creed» James Robertson offered up this comment non-ironically this morning and I think it’s an excellent distillation of the conservative creed: Yet another thing Matt is unclear on: “Life isn’t Fair” For Matt in particular, we need to add […]
Following up on my last post about Libertarians, at least the Wall Street Journal has weighed in on the financial meltdown on Wall Street. Let me say up front, I like the Wall Street Journal. I subscribe and find it some of the best business reporting out there. But man, their opinion pages just don’t […]
With everything that’s going on with the meltdown of Wall Street financial companies, I’ve seen several liberal blogs ask the obvious question: Where are all of the free market fundamentalists now? Shouldn’t all of these firms – and by extension, the U.S. and global economies – be sacrificed on the alter of creative destruction? By […]
Well, I wouldn’t say “dead,” but certainly my blog has been asleep for quite some time. But that’s over. So, time to get re-started. And with so much going on, it’s difficult to know where to start. Let’s start with the big news of the day – the meltdown of all things economic in America. […]
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