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Archives for November, 2012

What Fiscal Cliff?

From the Daily Caller comes this report on President Obama’s opening offer to deal with the fiscal cliff. Whether this is a negotiating ploy or not, this approach to the fiscal cliff negotiations is irresponsible. Apparently for Obama everything is a political game. One wonders how the public could re-elect such a man. Can the [...]

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Adapt and Overcome, That’s All We Can Do.

The election is over and now, as Frank Knight once observed, “We have to adapt and overcome, that’s all we can do.” That may be harder to accomplish than Professor Knight could have imagined. To put the task into perspective, the following list of forty outcomes during President Obama’s first term, puts the magnitude of [...]

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A View From Afar

A friend of this site and occasional contributor is P. W. Dunn. Mr. Dunn blogs at righteousinvestor.com. He left the US in response to rising taxes and decreasing freedoms. Here are some pertinent comments from his vantage point in Canada: New comment on your post “Businesses Begin To Walk Down John Galt’s Path” Author : P. [...]

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You Won’t Build That!

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Where and when you are born has a great deal to do with how successful you might become. According to The Economist: Warren Buffett, probably the world’s most successful investor, has said that anything good that happened to him could be traced back to the fact that he was born in the right country, the [...]

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A Real Nominee for Person Of The Year

While I am on the topic of Person Of The Year, let me submit Bill Whittle as my choice. I know little about Mr. Whittle other than this speech. Watch it and see if you don’t agree he is a better candidate than any of the Time Magazine nominations. A MUST SEE!

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