Self-funding regulation:
Another stupid idea

Response to Top Securities Lawyers Call for Self-Funded S.E.C., in which it is stated that “Forty leading securities lawyers urged Congress on Friday to allow the S.E.C. to keep the hundreds of millions of dollars in fees it collects each year and use them to support its operations”:
We select among a series of bad options. [...]

“Stimulus” is a meaningless term

My reply to David Brooks (who now fancies himself an economist):
If economists had a clue most of them would work real jobs producing something. This is REALLY simple.
If you had a friend who was in debt to his eyeballs and had just lost his job and he asked for a loan to spend the [...]

Tom Friedman math:
debt + inexperience = success!

Thomas Friedman, the most “important columnist in America,” reminded New York Times readers on Wednesday that all is possible if you just pull yourself up by your bootstraps. Friedman’s latest footnote in America’s ongoing Horatio Alger narrative prescribes a new round of government tax cuts to help college graduates start their own businesses.
By Friedman’s twisted [...]

Have a Wonderful Summer Children!

In an essay of no more than 500 words discuss two of the following:
a.  Is Barak Obama really a Democrat?  In your essay, discuss foreign affairs, economics, equality of opportunity, progressive taxation, immigration reform, and social equality.
b.  Should the United States continue its support of the State of Israel?  In your essay discuss democracy, the [...]