Re: the reader’s comment here on The Grapes of Wrath, there is no doubt that the book challenges the basic tenets of capitalism, and it does so in what is perhaps the most forceful piece ever written in the English …
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A Cautionary Tale about Money
The story at left is a strange one, though worth telling for a good reason: We all should make sure that money plays its proper role in our lives. One part of this tale rings particularly true: avoid displays of …
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Canada Retaliates, Hitting Americans Hard
Donna Smedley writes: Remember when Canada and the U.S. were best friends? Hockey jokes, Niagara Falls road trips, and snowbirds flooding Florida condo boards with drunk westerners getting arrested in VEGAS? Yeah. That relationship’s gone. Welcome to Canada’s unofficial, but …
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Making It Even Tougher on Consumers
We’ve all seen the many covert ways that merchants employ to take advantage of their customers. The other day, I was talking to the recently retired VP Marketing at the roast beef sandwich chain Arby’s, and I asked him if …
Understanding Tariffs
Here’s a short video in which “The Great Communicator” (Ronald Reagan) spoke to America about tariffs and the threats they represent to America. Worth 60 seconds of your life? I think so.
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Re: Trumpism — Is There an Epiphany in Our Future?
I know a lot of folks are wondering how far the Republicans are going to move to the right before a significant number of Trump supporters have simply seen enough and call for a return of some sort of sanity. …
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Oil and Gas Investment Seems Attractive, But Is it Credible?
I ran across a solicitation for investors to join a certain company that is promising a return of 1.19% daily, or (1.0119)^365 per year, = 7503% = 75.03 times your investment. $20K becomes more than $1.5 million a year later. …
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Why So Little Travel Here in the Good Ol’ USA?
My wife returned to California from the East Coast yesterday and remarked that the plane was about half full; she and many other passengers had whole rows to themselves. This, of course, is precisely what the transportation sector hates most: …
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Russia Investing in World-Class Highspeed Rail?
This sounds a bit improbable, doesn’t it? Russia’s GDP is 1/13th the size of ours. It’s less than our state of Texas. Their GDP per capita ($14K) ranks #68 in the world. The country consists of 144 million poor people …
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Let’s Play “Musical Tariffs”
The other problem is uncertainty. The fact that the tariffs change every few minutes makes it impossible for American business owners whose enterprises depend on stability to make meaningful decisions, landing them in a quagmire, one built on stupidity and …
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