Category Archives: Politics and Business
Over the hedge
It seems that much of the business language we hear (and use) is hard to understand. The Rosetta Stone of business jargon hasn’t been discovered which would allow translation to an easily understood form. I love to study jargon, “terms … Continue reading
The business of “corrections”
As of 2008, there were roughly 2.3 million inmates in state and federal prisons, and local jails, representing about 0.7 % of the entire population, and about 1.0 % of the adult population.
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
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