The Wall Street Journal recently reported on the diminishing value of the bachelor’s degree compared to a two-year degree at a community college. With the billions of dollars of federal money poured into college aid and the predicted shortages of workers in jobs that require technical training, it is no wonder that more people are [...]
A few posts back I may have referred to Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) senior officials as “lumbering simpletons,” and for that I must apologize, because they have managed something truly spectacular. Here are the accuracy averages for veteran disability claim approval rates in 2012, just to give you a picture of how well things [...]
A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on. Winston Churchill It seems that there is a video about wealth inequality that is going “viral.” This compelling video paints a bleak picture of the haves versus the have-nots (courtesy of very left-leaning websites such as Mother [...]
The stock market is getting a bad reputation these days. It waxes and wanes hour by hour depending on everything from who is elected president to the future of twinkies and cupcakes. Never mind that in the grand scheme of things, individual stock returns are really based on corporate earnings, and never mind that historically [...]
As the end of the 2012 tax year approaches, it dawned on me that with little goodies like the home mortgage interest deduction and property tax deductions, other forms of saving and investment essentially punish the middle class. Suppose a household earning $100,000 a year purchases a home for $250,000. For a 30-year mortgage at an [...]
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How lucky for the president that his convention speech was followed by this morning’s slightly smaller unemployment rate and a more significant reduction in the U-6 rate (8.1 percent and 14.7 percent in August, compared to 8.2 percent and 15 percent buy cialis online uk in July). For more analysis on the accuracy of unemployment [...]
Every time a hurricane or other national disaster rears its ugly head, there are always a slew of news headlines about price gouging. According to Wikipedia, price gouging is “a situation in which a seller prices goods or commodities much higher than is considered reasonable or fair.” Thirty eight states have price gouging laws that [...]