American Madness

Intelligent Criticism in the Service of a Better Nation

Recession starts to hit home

Message sent to a friend from his CEO. There are lots of messages like this going around:
I’m sorry to say that in light of deteriorating market conditions, senior management has deemed it prudent to institute a salary freeze. What I said last week still goes–we are widely diversified in our revenue streams and are in [...]

Not up to the task

This administration, and the ones that preceded it from President Reagan on have chanted the mantra of the free market. This was not just trickle down economics; the leaders of this country actually believed that the best way for the markets to be creative and grow the economy was to let them do whatever [...]

Burying the Reagan revolution

Well, it took Bush to destroy Reagan. Is that irony?

This is not a metaphor

Do you really want the Federal Government telling anyone how much money they can make? If the current proposal for the creation of a Treasury Czar, Napoleon, Stalin, Mao, Hitler, Conservator goes through with the changes that are going to be made by the Congress, from both sides, at some point they are going [...]

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