I graduated from college in 1971 with a bachelor’s degree in Psychology. Back in junior high school, a psychiatrist had helped me a great deal, so I decided that I wanted to be a psychologist when I grew up. Since you can’t do much with a bachelor’s degree, I applied to graduate schools to get …
Tag: economics
What the Op-ed Writers Don’t Get about Obama’s Economy
Last week, Michael Solon wrote an op-ed essay in the Wall Street Journal entitled "What Democrats and the CBO Don't Get". He was talking about how the administration's actions relating to the economy are not leading to economic growth, which is the best way to increase federal revenues and improve conditions for Americans. However, none …
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Minimum Wage??
So, they say they can't "survive" on $8.25 per hour. They want the government to mandate that their employer pay them more, regardless of the fact that if the employer is made to pay them more, they might not get to keep that job at all. How about they get an education, acquire new skills, …
Is the Stock Market “Liberal”?
The stock market consists of the combined actions of millions of individual and institutional investors, all over the world. These range from big mutual fund companies buying and selling stocks for their "actively managed" funds to individual investors sitting in front of their computers placing trades once in a while, to "day traders" who move …
Hillsdale Hostel What is America
This summer, I attended the Hillsdale Hostel at Hillsdale College in Michigan. I took a seminar entitled What is America. We had lectures from awesome Hillsdale professors, including Gary Wolfram and Burt Folsom. I learned from Dr. Folsom that the US History textbooks I used in high school in Seattle (way back in the 1960's), …
