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November 24, 2010
Dear Mr. Buffett. Thank you for your suggestion that everyone who earns over
$1 million a year patriotically pony up and get taxed a lot more than we already are. Your free advice so generously given should not pass without grateful acknowledgement…
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November 4, 2010
By my schedule necessities, I’m writing this on Sunday, right before election night knowing you’ll see it afterwards. And if I’m going to give you old news, I might as well make it really old:
“Designed especially for city and suburban motoring,…
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October 27, 2010
I have just returned from a week in London. The food was gray, weather grayer, and their economy bleak, dark and foreboding.
Their coalition government’s hastily cobbled together “austerity program” became a big U.S. news item while I was there,…
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October 20, 2010
Many people fear that ObamaCare will necessitate rationing, to curb consumption and cap costs. But an even better bending of the cost curve would be to eliminate care altogether.
As it is obvious there’ll be less turf, turf battles have begun. The…
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October 13, 2010
You would think all members of Congress would rebel at being systematically made irrelevant. Is it possible they are so dumb they can’t see Obama at work neutering them?
The myriad horrors woven throughout the 2,000+ page health insurance industry…
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December 21, 2005
Ever
since Hurricane Katrina made landfall in late August sending oil
prices to $70 per barrel and gasoline above $3 a gallon, the media
have been in a panic over a return of 70s-style inflation. Such…
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November 10, 2005
CBS wasnt alone. Headlines like The Dollars Decline Does Matter,
Consumers Could Get Caught Under Falling Dollar, and The
Dangerous Dollar were all the rage as Americas currency was…
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October 31, 2005
According to Lou Dobbs Tonight, America is a nation in trouble, and the blame can be placed squarely on the shoulders of policy makers.
CNNs Christine Romans began her October 28 report: Lou, while…
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October 21, 2005
It seems to come earlier and earlier every year, doesnt it? No, not
Christmas ads on TV, but the annual media festival of gloom and doom
surrounding holiday-related retail sales.
This…
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August 31, 2005
The U.S.
Census Bureau released poverty figures for 2004 on August 30, and if
you were to take the mainstream media reports on the subject at face
value, you would have to conclude that things…