Category: Business

A great speech from Robert Murdoch, CEO of News Corporation…  A few extracts: Over the years, some of my wildest critics seem to have assumed I am Jewish. At the same time, some of my closest friends wish I were…

The “lost decade.” That’s how the Japanese describe their country in the 1990s. Those just so happen to be the boom years here in the United States. Japan’s real estate and stock bubbles had burst. The interest rates had moved

Charles Murray received an award from the American Enterprise Institute where he delivered a lecture, ”The Happiness of the People.” The lecture focused on the concept of American exceptionalism.  A key excerpt: “it isn’t something in the water that has

Another great commentary from Victor Davis Hanson.  He talks about his challenge trying to understand macroeconomics and the doublespeak coming from the O’bama administration: I feel… confused about all the doublethink coming out of Washington. Great Depression—no Great Depression. Recession

A great objective analysis of the US economy in Forbes magazine by economists from First Trust Advisers… a few key extracts: Despite the rosiest economic projections we have possibly ever seen, as well as one of the largest tax hikes

A couple of graphics about the housing issue helps to nicely illustrate what’s happening in our country.  The first chart comes courtesy of the MotherJones web site and it shows that just 32 counties (primarily in California, Arizona, Nevada, and

Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it’s not going to go away. — Elvis Presley Thanks, Joe K!  I also can’t believe that this wisdom comes from the hip swivelling man