A recent Bloomberg News headline, “Classic Cars, Lean Hogs and Duchamp Art Lead Alternative Investment Ranking,” piqued the interest of two readers who separately emailed to ask how they could get into the reported “lean hog” bonanza. With a one…
Tying party of president to fortune is fool’s errand
The data are clear: The U.S. economy does better economically on a range of measures when a Democrat is president than when a Republican is. So what? The very question assumes a cause-effect relationship that ignores the complex interactions in…
Good intentions made bad policy
If the current influx of minors from a few Central American countries teaches us anything, it is the wisdom of Robert Burns’ paraphrased argument that, “The best laid schemes of mice and men oft go awry, and leave us nothing…
Steel ‘dumping’ lobby adds up to higher costs for society
I wonder how Sen. Amy Klobuchar would have analyzed the hog market on Sept. 28, 1970, if she hadn’t been in grade school at the time. I remember the date exactly because it was my first morning back from Vietnam.…