"If something cannot go on forever, it will stop". Herb SteinAs a corollary to the above statement, Herb Stein often observed: "Economists are very good at saying that something cannot go on forever, but not so good at saying when it will stop." David Brooks has...

 “Bob has a motto on his wall which says ‘Life is just one damned thing after another!’”  (The Concentrations of Bee, Lilian Bell)It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it's one damn thing over and over.  Edna St. Vincent Millay President Obama often...

 DJT, who inherited his fortune from his father and was sued for racial discrimination and slum landlord practices, wants museums to stop showing how bad slavery was and focus instead the brightness and success of America’s future as he simultaneously floods the...

  Convicted child rapist Ghislaine Maxwell called DJT a gentleman in all respects in a hastily arranged interview by the MAGA Justice Department as reported recently in the national news. When asked to verify, E. Jean Carroll and Stormy Daniels refused to comment. In...

   This morning FBI agents swarmed a MacDonald's in response to reports that an inferior burger was served to DJT. Director "Cash" Patel posted on WRECKS "No one who disappoints the President is above the law." "Patsy" Bondi commented: "America's safety isn't...

 The US is the only country facing tourism decline as Trump policies to cost $29 billion in visitor revenue.As a result of various actions stemming from the Trump administration, Tourism Economics are projecting a 9.4 percent decline year over year in U.S. tourism as...

 Shortly after recording Dock of the Bay, Otis Redding died in a plane crash on December 10, 1967. The song became the first posthumous number one record in chart history.Redding didn’t have the chance to experience the long, lazy nostalgia of old age, but the...

  When the President fired the Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner on my birthday, it awakened some long dormant memories of my short time as a statistical economist.First, let me state what would be obvious to anyone with a rudimentary understanding of the BLS...

"When men choose not to believe in God, they do not thereafter believe in nothing, they then become capable of believing in anything," G.K. Chesterton I had a good friend, a Christian, now sadly gone, who often referred to G.K. Chesterton when we discussed religion...

 "Alice laughed: "There's no use trying," she said; "one can't believe impossible things.""I daresay you haven't had much practice," said the Queen. "When I was younger, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible...