I truly mean it when I say that I read a piece this good about once in every five years. This piece is the transcript of a speech that William McNurn gave at Hillsdale College last month. Hillsdale is perhaps the most important college in...
Dr. Russell Roberts at George Mason University (the finest economic hub in the country) has written a delightful piece on the real causes of the financial crisis. The observation that greed and stupidity do not help to explain the crisis since greed and stupidity have...
On Friday evening I was blessed to share the stage with Dinesh D'Souza as the long-promoted conference, The Virtue of Prosperity: Moral Implications for Wealth and Work, got underway. I have worked on the conference for half of a year, and brought in my dear...
This is the first time in my review series on the financial crisis of 2008 that I am doubling up by covering two books in one review. On the other hand, neither of these books are specifically about the 2008 crisis either, though neither of them...
I do not believe I have used my blog yet to promote this event, but I really think everyone should check this out. It is going to be a tremendous weekend, and is about five weeks away. I believe that in the present context we...
It is not that I dislike being right, but there are times that it pains me to go back and look at pessimistic predictions I made that ended up coming true. And so far, the things I said about the behemoth FinReg bill have been...
Perhaps you heard the news today that California's budget deficit is worse than people thought - as in, um, $25 billion. $25.4 billion to be precise, but I assure you that extra $ 0.4 billion is not causing anyone any anxiety. I mean, what is...
"Good news - the President has announced a reduction of the government work force by one million people (20%). Bad news - the cuts were ordered by President Raul Castro in Cuba." So began the 20th anniversary dinner of The Acton Institute tonight in Grand Rapids,...
I advertised the fact that I was going to see Wall Street 2 on opening day too much, and now after 73 requests that I review it, I feel a bit of a moral obligation to do so. I did say that I was not...
When I was 13 years old I watched a movie with my dad called Wall Street starring Martin Sheen, Charlie Sheen, and Michael Douglas. I didn't understand a lot of it, but I did know that it made me want to work in finance -...
