It's time to talk turkey
Let us give thanks and talk turkey. I've just received powerful evidence of an imminent economic resurrection. Big developers expect to practice business as usual within weeks or months. The good news arrives like a big brown bird dropped squarely in the middle of our Thanksgiving table. Full Story
Infrastructure spending to nowhere
Democrats see the road to economic recovery, and it has been bulldozed, flattened out by a road grader and covered with pavement. Barack Obama says a fiscal stimulus will be the top priority of his new administration. The initial offer is $500 billion, 4 percent of U.S. gross domestic product. Full Story
The more one looks at the issues confronting the automobile industry, the more one is struck by how many of the challenges now facing this country they reflect in microcosm — if one can call a multibillion-dollar industry that employs hundreds of thousands of Americans directly (and millions indirectly) a microcosm. Full Story
Have you had the pleasure of knowing many pirates? I don't necessarily mean "knowing" in the Biblical sense. But if the knowing of a pirate is not a knowing in the Biblical or some other sacred sense, can there be any knowing at all? Can anyone really know a pirate? Full Story
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