Posts Tagged ‘ Japan ’

Slow Growth or Contraction

Oct 27th, 2010 | By | Category: Featured, Macro Economics
The economy is either growing slowly, or contracting. Housing is probably going down. Remember, Mr. Market has to destroy the idea that “housing always goes up.” When he’s finished people will think that “housing never goes up.” Unemployment? People are gradually beginning to realize that the last ten years were the worst ...read more


General Lemay Sics B-29s on Japan

Sep 10th, 2009 | By | Category: Featured, Politics
By the summer of 1944 the air war was taking shape in Europe. Gen. Curtis Lemay had turned a problematic bombing operation against Germany into a strategic success. No less than the German Minister of Armaments, Albert Speer, would eventually come to credit Lemay’s bombers for speeding along the defeat ...read more


A Review of “Lemay: The Life and Wars of General Curtis Lemay”

Sep 8th, 2009 | By | Category: Featured, Politics
“He never fit the image of the American flyboy – dashing, handsome and suave,” writes author Warren Kozak in the prologue to his remarkable new biography of General Curtis Lemay (1906–1990). “He was, instead, dark, brooding, and forbidding. He rarely smiled, he spoke even less, and when he did, his ...read more