Archive for March, 2010

Replicate

Tuesday, March 30th, 2010

It is certainly not the end. And some might actually call it the beginning…of a new set of challenges and issues to solve. My objective is to replicate what we did, but first, I have to slug through the current mire and then to address the back drop of the horrific economy in which we find ourselves.  My [...]

How Milton Friedman Saved Chile

Saturday, March 27th, 2010

WSJ Page A-21 – Tuesday, March 2, 2010 by: Bret Stephens How Milton Friedman Saved Chile: In a tale of two earthquakes, one in Haiti and the other one in Chile (the story is unfolding even more significantly of late). While the earthquake in Chile was 500 times more powerful than the one in Haiti, [...]

Isabella Redux

Saturday, March 27th, 2010

She rounded the bushes at 141 Trismen from the Iofreddo house, as if she had dropped in from a different dimension in time.  She looked at me, at 6 years old, and started talking.  She started talking, as she always did.  “Daddy, you wouldn’t believe what just happened today.”  It’s not that anything that happened today was [...]

Mismatched/ A Simple Fragment

Saturday, March 20th, 2010

Trade, travel, tourism, and technology have globalized the economies of the world.  So, our economy is global but our politics are national, which means that they are clearly mismatched.  Not a great revelation, but one worth noting!

Scientists: A Random Act of Violence

Saturday, March 13th, 2010

Article from Orlando Sentinel Take a look at the article below. It comes from the Orlando Sentinel, from the Tribune newspapers, identifying the fact that it has now been declared to be settled science that the cause of extinction of the dinosaurs as well as some 50% of the species on earth around 65.5 million years ago [...]

The Marriage Ref

Wednesday, March 10th, 2010

It didn’t bother me when I saw the Marriage Ref and wondered what in the world it was. It also didn’t bother me that I personally thought the Marriage Ref was an absolute bust. It didn’t even bother me that I thought the Marriage Ref was never going to make it after its initial trial run. [...]