by Henry Oliner | Sep 2, 2015 | Politics, Uncategorized
From Bret Stephens at The Wall Street Journal, The Donald and Demagogues: If by now you don’t find Donald Trump appalling, you’re appalling. And so forth and so on—a parade of semi-sophisticated theories that act as bathroom deodorizer to mask the stench of this...
by Henry Oliner | May 16, 2014 | Economics
Martin Feldstein writes in The Wall Street Journal, Piketty’s Numbers Don’t Add Up Excerpts: The second problem with Mr. Piketty’s conclusions about increasing inequality is his use of income-tax returns without recognizing the importance of the...
by Henry Oliner | Dec 5, 2011 | Environmental
Science was not a strong subject for me and I am certainly not qualified to pass judgment on the hard data and the cases for or against anthropomorphic (man-made) global warming. Yet I also realize that most of the pundits that express such strong opinion on the...
by Henry Oliner | Oct 9, 2011 | Economics, Taxes
Preaching that this is not class warfare generally precedes a volley in the self destructive attacks on the wealthy. It is like the shyster who precedes a dishonest act with “trust me.” There was some news of some of the protesters on Wall Street being paid to...
by Henry Oliner | Jan 28, 2011 | Business, Economics, Politics
Ever since Michael Douglas’s character Gordon Gekko in the movie Wall Street declared “Greed is Good” capitalism has been cast in a sinister role that it has yet to overcome. The movie speech was rumored to be taken from a speech given by Ivan Boesky at a college...
