Its Economics 101.  Put large factory in town, all those employees need a place to eat, shop, live, etc.  Big economic impact on that town. Ok, Toyota, Honda, Hyundai, you name it, they all have large assembly factories in American towns, those employees have to do all of the above. Economics 201, executives of Ford, [...]

At the heart of industrialized society is one thing (among many) that increases productivity, standards.  It’s not until you, well actually, its pretty much every second of everyday in which you are encountering standards.  Right now I am face to face with several.  A standard web language, and written language and character set for that [...]

The buzz word of the year and soon to be the decade is “recession”, and it seems to be the only thing Americans can talk about.  Why don’t we mention another “re-” word, the one that started it all here in the good old U.S. of A.  revolution.  In economics there will always be periods [...]

Is is just me or do we need a new definition of the American dream. Is the goal still a boatload of money and another boat full of honkey women? Hrm… After reading that question it has occurred to me that we don’t need an answer.

Happy Independence Day!  Does it tick me off when people call it the Fourth of July?  No, I do it most of the time anyway, but we must remember the real reason for the season:  our forefathers fought and died so we could be free.  And so people from all over the world would look [...]