Ok. I tried to be above the fray that is the teabaggin’ parties, but I cannot. Why? First of all, I want my tea back! Tea is a wonderful beverage that warms you up on a cold, MN winter night (sniff, bye winter), and it is unfairly being usurped by the right to further their… Continue Reading
Category Archives: Economics
Let’s Step into Fantasyland
I wrote briefly yesterday about AIG handing out $165 million in bonuses to the very employees who drove the company (and our economy) into the ground. Today, there is rage and fury and a whole lot of indignation going around. ”How can they do that?” ”What are they thinking?” ”Don’t they have any decency?” In… Continue Reading
I Solved the Economic Crisis
If everybody gives me a hundred bucks each, I might even share the solution with you. Just kidding. I really have solved it, though. Get comfy because it’s going to take awhile for me to explain how I reached my conclusion. Make a pot of herbal tea…ooh, that’s a good idea. Excuse me. I’m going… Continue Reading
It’s All About the Benjamins, Baby
I am not an economist, nor do I play one on the teevee machine (as my beloved Rachel would say), but my dad has a Ph.D. in economics, as does my uncle. His wife, my aunt, is working on her Ph.D. in economics as well. They have all asked me to edit papers for them,… Continue Reading