Video of a trip through Pyongyang, North Korea to the airport
In an article on CNBC, cross-posted from VOX, there is a short video of a trip through Pyongyang, North Korea …
Monthly Archives: April 2017
Thoughts on US-China trade
Since Donald Trump entered the political spotlight, questions on trade “imbalances” have certainly intensified. For my part in the debate, …
The airlines are at it again!
I generally am opposed to big-spending government boondoggles. And in the past, I have been resisting the idea of a …
Google, ad-blockers and site user abuse
There’s an article on Bloomberg today discussing Google answer to the stalemate between consumers with ad-blockers installed on their browsers, …
The ultimate retirement project: usafacts.org
If you’re Steve Ballmer of Microsoft fame, what do you do when you retire? Well, you go and build a …
Smashing faces and dragging people off planes
Today, I read an article on CNN written by a commercial pilot asking us to “stop blaming United” for the …
Faction of Trump Admin testing waters for backtrack on dumping Paris climate accord
*** Warning: The following post contains an anti-Trump rant, as unusual as they are on my blog. *** In Bloomberg …
Pick your poison quiz
The book from which the below excerpt was taken was not well written and a long slog of read, yet …
To raise the inflation target or not to raise the inflation target – Is that the question?
A while back the notion of the Fed using a higher inflation target had received a good deal of debate. …
Symmetrical vs. Asymmetrical
Here is a simple question I can ask that may answer a lot of other questions about the Fed’s inflation …
