So goes a story in the Journal a few days ago. Today our national debt is $39 trillion, and government spending exceeds that. A hundred years ago, in 1926, the national debt was $732,000, and the government income was $21 billion. Last year (2025) government income was $4.9 trillion, and it spent $6.3 trillion. Basic […]
41 years ago, after I had discovered the beauty of being able to write something and preserve it on a disc, I decided I should write a book, since I have always had an opinion about virtually everything, I figured lots of people would either share my opinions or hate them. I had written maybe […]
The two pictures attached, are for two homes I have owned, one in Philadelphia, and the second is in Montrose Colorado. The first, recently sold for close to a million dollars. I paid $21,000 for it in 1971. Same house, huge, with a 35 foot library, lots of bedrooms, a wine cellar, two furnaces, etc. […]
Allow me to repeat it. “The more of anything there is, the less they will be worth, and the less of anything there is, the more they will be worth.” This applies to everything, be it carrots, wallpaper, lumber, auto parts, bricks, water in the desert, or water anywhere. Snow, sunshine, trees, and you name […]
Allow me to repeat it. “The more of anything there is, the less they will be worth, and the less of anything there is, the more they will be worth.” This applies to everything, be it carrots, wallpaper, lumber, auto parts, bricks, water in the desert, or water anywhere. Snow, sunshine, trees, and you name […]
That was the title of a piece in Friday’s Journal. I didn’t read it, because I know it told about stocks and bonds to buy, all denominated in dollars, of course. I saw a commercial on Fox News before I wrote this, and the commercial said, “No monthly payments.” I have no monthly payments to […]
Probably the best definition of the word “Faith,” can be found in the Bible at Hebrews 11:1 in a modern English translation: “Faith is the assured expectation of things hoped for, the evident demonstration of realties though not beheld.” More succinctly, faith is a strong belief in something, even though it could or couldn’t happen. […]
How did it get started? It started basically, when FDR, (Franklin Delano Roosevelt), was elected President, along with a Democratic Congress, in 1932. America was in the midst of the ‘great depression,’ which was caused by a violation of “Stott’s Law,” which I wasn’t around then to invent, and that’s not to be dealt with […]
It’s rare that I would quote another’s column word for word, as being a prototype of what has, and still is happening. From a column by Barton Swaim on the March 12th, 2026 Wall Street journal: “What’s motivating Donald Trump? The question lends itself to complexity on any subject, and particularly Iran. Disparaging answers abound. […]
Please forgive me if I make this not too lengthy and simplistic, so I’ll first I’ll ask the reader a few questions, which of course, will be self answered, but maybe you have never thought of it in the following examples: Does my desk pay interest, or merely give me a place in which to […]