Dennis Elam April 16, 2009 Word Count 740 Big Brother is Planning Lyndon Johnson observed that politics is all about getting someone else to do what you want them to do, and believing it was their idea to begin with. Reagan went on to observe that you could get a lot done in Washington, DC…

Here is a great seven minute you tube about Texas. Indeed the Houston DFW SA Triangle they call Texaplex is one of the remarkable economic engines in America, especially if one does not have to live in Houston….

A summary of the story to date including the resuce appears here. Management strategy outlines the overall goals of a company and how to get there. The same holds true for foreign policy for a country. It seems to me that the Pirates learned quite a bit at a relatively cheap cost to them, pirates after all are…

Maersk is cutting costs by slowing down, even adding a couple of weeks to shipping times by avoiding the $600K cost of using the Suez Canal. In a world focused on Enterprise Resource Planning supply chain solutions this is surely high irony. the above chart of the Baltic Dry Index explains why.  The Baltic Index is…

Ford is trying something new to re introduce its Fiesta line of small cars. After asking for video submissions, Ford is giving 100 Feistas to young folks for six months. Those 100 will be postin gtheir impressions, good and bad, on You Tube, Flickr and Twitter, all personal sites.  Ford has not control over what…

Wednesday April 7, 2009 810 CST Mortgage and credit card delinquencies   are getting worse not better. While the news invariably  lags the markets, eventually the news does need to improve to support the idea of buying stocks. This article suggests that despite all the intervention, aimed at the banks not the borrowers, this is…

Here a Harvard student attempts to ask Barney Frank a question about his use of TARP money, real transparency in action!  Barney talks over the students, blames right wing attacks, doing everything to evade answering the question. 

Hawaii is the unintended loser in the Class Warfare Front. This article details that since attacking companies for conventions and travel, thousands of room nights have been cancelled in the island state. In the article even the administration admits this was an unintended consequence not aimed at companies who do not receive government money. Really,…

Professor Tom Sowell  lists the books that changed his or might change your mind.  These are topics about the very change and existence of civilization. Dr. Sowell specializes in skewering conventional wisdom, with facts. I am reading Predictably Irrational about how we make decisions. The blog follows popular culture from a socionmics point of view.…

USA Today reports that local communities are now printing their  own currencies.  ONe can buy $100 of the currency for say $95. It is accepted at the local shops. This is a depression era idea when communitties had to use scrip as no one had the ability to generate enough money to  use legal tender.…