Polls Are Pretty Worthless
TV news lives on polls, but I don’t think they are accurate. They show to some extent what some people are thinking, but they don’t necessarily predict the outcome of…
Founding Fathers Feared Pure Democracy
The Founding Fathers were not enthusiastic about pure democracy. In his excellent book, The Quartet, historian Joseph Ellis describes James Madison’s views on a democracy that represented the direct choices…
UK Energy Prices
An op-ed in the Financial Times by Martin Wolf calls for strong action by the UK government to prevent the increasingly high energy prices from falling disproportionately on the poor. …
Stop Discriminating Against White Southerners
I resent the fact that Democrats revile Southerners who have positive feelings for the Confederacy. Our ancestors fought for the Confederacy. It is normal to have positive feelings about your…
Decline of Unbiased News
George Will writes in the Washington Post that the decline of newspapers’ ad revenue has led to a big change in news reporting. People now read news in on-line papers…
Private Equity, the Fed, and the Economy
This Economist article details the underlying problems of private equity in the impending downturn. It explains in more detail how the industry is on shaky ground after years of free money and…
Are the States Still United
In his July 3 Washington Post column David Ignatius cites the problems faced by the United States described in a Rand Corporation report by Michael Mazarr. Ignatius says: Mazarr’s disturbing…
The Fed and the Economy
The Federal Reserve has been playing fast and loose with the American financial system since the “great recession” of 2008, buying immense amounts of bonds and keeping interest rates near…
US and Russia in Cyberspace
According to David Ignatius in the Washington Post, the war of words between the US and Russia over cyberspace is heating up. A senior Russian cyber expert said that the…
