by Henry Oliner | Jun 30, 2011 | Business
The debates in the class war classifies wealth in the extremes. We hear about Wall Street billionaires and the unemployed but we miss the vast majority in the middle. We sometimes refer to them as the working wealthy. Most small business owners are in more common...
by Henry Oliner | Jun 28, 2011 | American Thinker, Taxes
Supply side economics remains controversial and poorly understood both by its critics who think it is just ‘trickle down’ economics: a thinly veiled rationalization to improve the lives of the wealthy at the expense of the poor, and by many of its proponents who...
by Henry Oliner | Jun 27, 2011 | Anti Semitism
In recent news headlines: San Francisco will have a ballot initiative to ban circumcision. While one could make an argument for this on other grounds those who support this initiative have used a comic book format featuring a blond muscled caped superhero named...
by Henry Oliner | Jun 26, 2011 | Politics
Over the years of writing this blog there are a few issue that the reading and analysis keeps returning to. At the risk of repetition a few of them are: Political leaders have a natural tendency to promise benefits without paying for them. Personal virtues can become...
by Henry Oliner | Jun 25, 2011 | Economics
The free market is not a creed or an ideology that political conservatives, libertarians, and Ayn Rand acolytes want Americans take on faith. The free market is simply a measurement. The free market tells us what people are willing to pay for a given thing at a...
