Category Archives: Politics and Economics

We need a powerful voice in the mold of proud liberals such as FDR and the Kennedys, winners of the economic race who recognized that a richer polity, a stronger nation, is best created through the efforts of all its people. And those efforts are not possible when one is struggling simply to eat, find shelter, and stay healthy. Continue reading →

We have put in place many “car controls” and “tobacco controls” to successfully reduce car- and tobacco-mediated deaths without banning cars or cigarettes. We can and must take the same approach with guns. Reducing such deaths by 25% would save 7,500 lives a year. Why should we just abandon those folks to their fate? Continue reading →

Those of us who think even one life lost to a bullet is wrong must keep the conversation going, to provide the same level of moral suasion that changed attitudes about drunk driving, or in an earlier era, about racial segregation. It can be done, it just requires concerted, systematic, repeated emphasis on what we should all agree on – that we don’t want any more mass killings in public places, be it of school kids, movie goers, any of us Continue reading →

2-3 years from now, we may begin to realize that the US economy has much more resilience, innovation, and growth potential then we’ve been assuming since the housing bubble burst here. And China, for all its size, its monolithic state capitalism, and aggrandizement of manufacturing expertise, may just find itself running out of steam, just as Japan did 25 years ago. Continue reading →

Probably 2/3rds of all care is being paid already by all the public sources of payment and subsidy for health care and insurance. Continue reading →

“So, do you think Romney is lying?” Dave and I were sitting downstairs in his snug Vail condo. I had just ridden 8 hours over the Continental divide through a freezing thunderstorm, and my mind wasn’t working too smoothly. “About … Continue reading →