Other Candidates: Nevada, Wyoming, New Hampshire, Maine, Alaska, South Dakota Reader #1: “Montana is beautiful. But it’s too red-state for me.” Reader #2: “Travel out to Missoula and other populated parts of Montana and you’ll see they are generally educated and liberal leaning like anywhere else in the country.” Reader #3: “Missoula is a blue...Read More
One Man’s Revenues & Profits = Another Man’s Expenses & Taxes If selling off a publicly-owned entity to the private sector is known as “privatizing,” doesn’t it stand to reason that when government takes over a private company, it should be known as “publicizing?” Apparently not: “In Boulder, Colo., climate-change activists have helped win two major...Read More
Year in Review: Top Stories Regular readers of this blog are already familiar with all the ways I believe this country has been weakened, especially financially, by Wall Street greed and recklessness (again). But there’s one way — surprisingly un(der)remarked — in which I think this country is immeasurably stronger than it was 20 years...Read More
“Voting” your Home, or Your 401(k)?New York Times business columnist Floyd Norris has a provocative piece today titled “Housing Prices and McCain”: http://norris.blogs.nytimes.com/ Norris’ premise is that Obama defections are likeliest in “red” states where home prices have dropped the most. Could be, although you’d be hard-pressed to isolate just one factor in causing a...Read More
