Musings of a Fifty-Year Graduate

[ANALYSIS and OPINION.]   As I write this, it is the 50th Anniversary of my high school graduation.  I won’t get into how Watergate compares to January 6th and/or how the Vietnam War compares to Ukraine etc.  Suffice it to say these are extremely precarious, and even dangerous, times both in terms of international relations Read More …

AMERICA WILL BE SEVERELY TESTED: Budgetary Constraints

[ANALYSIS and OPINION] Does the American public truly believe in democracy?  What price is it willing to pay?  What is the average American willing to sacrifice to preserve our Constitutional principles of three co-equal branches of representative government and the fundamental Freedoms found in the Bill of Rights? Due Process, Equal Protection, Free Speech, and Read More …

INFLATION: WHO IS TO BLAME?

[ANALYSIS/OPINION]   Contrary to popular belief the President of the United States is not, under our Constitution, a dictator—or at least he is not supposed to be.  In fact, there two other branches of government, namely, Congress and the Supreme Court.  We’ll put aside the Supreme Court because they have no direct effect on inflation. Read More …

SURVIVING WORLD CRISES, BEST PHILOSOPHICAL APPROACH

The world is in crisis. Discusses the rationale for fact-based problem solving decision making and the need to subordinate the historical philosophies and ideological viewpoints of the past. Read More …

Fiscal Policy & Physical Conditioning

Here’s an updated discussion on Fiscal Policy and its affects on Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and of course, jobs and inflation.   What is “full employment, and when will inflation kick in? Of course, we are also interested in balance, which for our purposes, means health and fitness.  See our host attempt 70 push-ups and a Read More …