Author Archives: Stan

Has anybody seen…?

As I watched the interview of Ethel Kennedy by her daughter this evening, the gritty black and white television images from my own adolescence streaming before me, my cheek felt the same warm salted tears again, as the narrator described … Continue reading

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The mind of the market

I was in business as an employee for fifteen years before I began to be a student of it.  It started when I went into business for myself.  That was twenty three years ago.  It’s amazing how interesting even the … Continue reading

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Free markets or John Maynard Keynes?

[This column was written a few years ago on a visit with friend Bob to Latvia. Its theme seems pertinent to the current election debates about what to do with our economic engine in the U.S.] Capitalism has gotten a … Continue reading

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Bribed with our own money

Peter Schiff’s role model is an incarcerated felon, his father.  The crime?  Tax evasion.  Irwin Schiff is 84 years old, and has served nine years of a 13 year sentence.  The elder Schiff played a prominent role in challenging the … Continue reading

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