The nightclub massacre last week in Orlando, Fla., is enormously tragic, as were numerous other mass shootings in recent years. And after other such grave incidents, some opine that “well, now we are going to have gun control.” Don’t count…
New scam involves old financial practices
Perhaps people are particularly naive, but once again I am shaking my head and asking, “How could anyone be so stupid?” while reading the news of what seems to be yet another Ponzi scheme. This one is small, reportedly involving…
New limits welcome on tax-exempt bonds for marginally public projects
Such is the power of the Internal Revenue Service that its issuance of proposed new rules this week limiting the issuance of municipal bonds caused thousands of squeals across the nation and, reportedly, one eerie moan from Detroit’s Woodlawn Cemetery.…
Government can do no good, except where it can
The sharpest ironies often are unintentional. Eating breakfast at a coffee shop in Slayton this past week, I overheard an older farmer in the next booth explaining how adopting “precision farming was boosting his yields and profits.” This method matches…