One of my friends read “Should We Talk About Secession,” an article just posted on the ‘net. He’s from the wild and wooly Montana-Idaho-Wyoming school of thought and commented, “I’ve been talking about it for two years.”
Woohoo...some of us have been talking about it since 1840.
I haven’t read the piece ...read more
The Top Ten Things to Worry About Surviving in a Bad Economic Climate
Nov 16th, 2009 | By Linda Brady Traynham | Category: Featured, Morning Whiskey
I staked out my position on the Doom & Gloom side back in 1992 when I was shocked by the problem I discuss first. What should you be concerned about? Start with the basics: what do you think you might have to survive? No point in making plans if you ...read more
The Jobless Recovery, So Called
Oct 19th, 2009 | By Linda Brady Traynham | Category: Featured, Morning Whiskey
Agora Financial's Founding Father Bill Bonner, writing in his Daily Reckoning, says there are approximately 131 M jobs in the USA.
Justice Little, Editor of Taipan Daily, also out of the AF stable, says that 26 M jobs have been lost.
The Federal Government says that the unemployment rate is 9.8%. Traditional ...read more
Tires from China and the Tyranny of Tariffs
Sep 24th, 2009 | By Linda Brady Traynham | Category: Featured, Macro Economics
Looks like Boy Blunder Two is going to do it again, breaking campaign promises, endangering the economy by pandering to outraged union members, annoying the USA's biggest creditor, and imposing yet another enormous tax on the American people who drive cars. This time the Messiah proposes to increase the tariff ...read more
The Education Bubble, Part I
Sep 16th, 2009 | By Linda Brady Traynham | Category: Featured, Politics
For most of the life of the United States of America one of the biggest dreams was that the next generation would exceed what their parents had achieved. Horatio Alger, "any boy can grow up to be president," "I want my children to have a better education than I did..." ...read more
Living on the Bubble
Sep 10th, 2009 | By Linda Brady Traynham | Category: Featured, Morning Whiskey
Some bubbles are more resilient than others.
Some bubbles have a significant amount of yield to them, depending upon how fully they were inflated and how sharp the object poking them is.
Some bubbles have thick, yielding coverings and are never inflated to rigidity beyond the point at which little kids sit ...read more
Free Lunches, Money from Nothing and Limits to Government Theft
Sep 4th, 2009 | By Linda Brady Traynham | Category: Featured, Politics
Consider economics and governments as resembling a restaurant.
In order for there to be a restaurant at all some entrepreneur has to put his money and vision on the line and open it. He has a thing called "overhead," which is irreducible on-going expenses whether he has any customers at all ...read more
Pushing National Healthcare with Senator Kennedy’s Corpse
Sep 1st, 2009 | By Linda Brady Traynham | Category: Featured, Morning Whiskey
De Mortuis Nil Nisi Bonum Dicendum Est -- In a Pig's Ear.
In the biggest display of maudlin excess since -- well, since "Jacko" died, but probably going back to the death of Elvis -- the hive started shrieking that the health disaster bill should be renamed "Kennedy Care" and passed ...read more
Libertarian Mating
Aug 14th, 2009 | By Linda Brady Traynham | Category: Featured, Morning Whiskey
It shocks me to realize that not only does the younger generation need an old-fashioned service, but that so, apparently do those who are supposed to be older and wiser. Never let it be said that I shirk my duty (so long as it does not involve mopping floors or ...read more
Ding, Dong, the Bear Is Dead
Aug 11th, 2009 | By Linda Brady Traynham | Category: Featured, Morning Whiskey
TownHall had an hysterically funny -- from my perspective--article Sunday a week ago. As a kindness I will not reveal the columnist's name because not said author will cringe in months to come over the nonsense uttered.
The producer of the screed's triumphant cry is..."Ding, Dong, the Bear is dead!"
Old piece ...read more

