California: America’s Zimbabwe

If you’re one of those who believe that the world economy can’t get any worse, you had better take a good, long, and hard look at the Golden State. California is a mess. Like Canadians, Californians are rather self absorbed, and like to think of their homes as a real country, a sort of model nation... 

The Consumer Society and the Low Paid Underclass

The stratospheric standard of living the American consumer has enjoyed since the early eighties is hurtling back to earth to leave a smoldering crater where the American economy used to be. When the dust finally settles, America likely will return to the modest and sober middle class society it used... 

Don’t Expect President Obama To Find You A Job

Let’s chat about unemployment. If you’re worried about losing your job, or you’re having trouble finding a new one since you were laid off here is the reason: the real unemployment rate in the United States is almost 17% and fast approaching 25% where it is going to stay for a very long time. If... 

The Election: Camelot II

The world seems to be agog over the election of 47 year old Barack Obama as president of the United States because, in addition to being a young, handsome, charismatic Senator from Illinois, and the son of an immigrant, he is also black. According to the chattering classes, nothing this astounding has... 

“ONE WORLD” HITS A POTHOLE ON THE ROAD TO PROSPERITY: Why Wendell Willkie never saw the crash of 2008 coming

As the good citizens of the world pick their way through the smoldering rubble of the American and world financial markets in September 2008, wondering when and where the next blast will occur, and pondering how things got to this sad state of affairs, it may be helpful to look at why Wendell Willkie,... 

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