You Can’t Cut Your Way to Growth Part 1
Later Parts: Part 1b and Part 2 Cutting budget deficits is all the rage. After all, everyone “knows” that being in debt is a sure sign of someone with lax morals. At least, that is how it is sold. It...
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You Can’t Cut Your Way to Growth Part 1B A Night at the Theater?
Previous Parts: Part 1 Later Parts: Part 2 In this series of posts I’m looking at the relationships between various entities in an economy. Partly I’m trying to document, for myself, the information I...
View ArticleYou Can’t Cut Your Way to Growth Part 2 Government and Exports
Previous Parts: Part 1 and Part 1b The take away for this last part is that if someone is against a budget deficit and against a falling dollar, then they are for a smaller economy and more...
View ArticleBarons of Broadband
Barons of Broadband. Last week’s big business news was the announcement that Comcast, a gigantic provider of cable TV and high-speed Internet service, has reached a deal to acquire Time Warner, which...
View ArticleVoter ID cases could let John Roberts destroy Voting Rights Act
Voter ID cases could let John Roberts destroy Voting Rights Act. Striking down or significantly narrowing that key pillar, known as Section 2, would essentially render the most successful civil-rights...
View ArticleNetflix Browse Endlessly Plan
My wife sent me this. It’s pretty funny. This is how we used Netflix too but mostly because after the first handful of months there wasn’t anything left worth watching. (Testing Facebook integration)...
View ArticleA Good Place to Sell Girl Scout Cookies
I would have loved to see her parents’ initial reaction. Source: Girl Scout sells 117 boxes of cookies in two hours outside Marijuana clinic A business-savvy Girl Scout sold 117 boxes of cookies in...
View ArticleFDA Set to Regulate E-Cigarettes
Source: E-Cigarettes: A $1.5 Billion Industry Braces for FDA Regulation The FDA is considering regulations for e-cigs. I’m sure the results will be quite pleasant for e-cig users such as myself. I...
View ArticleLake Street Dive – The Neighbor’s Song
Going to see them on March 5th. I hadn’t heard this one before.
View ArticleLake Street Dive Rocks
Last night was the night Lake Street Dive came to Columbus. The show was great. My wife wasn’t as familiar with their music as I was but she was pretty impressed, especially with Rachel Price’s...
View ArticleMitch McConnelling
So Senator Mitch McConnell made this cheesy PR video and The Daily Show discovered that you could play just about any song with it and come up with something funny. They called on their fans to make...
View ArticleNate Silver Not So Foxy
“The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing.” The quote is one Nate Silver is fond of. It can be found in his 2012 book The Signal and the Noise as well as in an article at his new...
View ArticleGame of Thrones Chapter Summaries Ebook
The folks over at A Wiki of Ice and Fire have a great collection of chapter summaries for George R.R. Martin’s book series. Since they are made available under a Creative Commons license, I took the...
View ArticleGeorge R. R. Martin in Rolling Stone
I enjoyed this interview with George Martin in Rolling Stone magazine. We get to learn a little about his background and hear his insights into the characters and nature of the books. Source: George...
View ArticleItalian Chicken Stew
We’ve been making this recipe for a while now and it’s one of my favorites. It’s a little spicy with a nice mix of flavors. We call it Italian Chicken Stew but on most sites it is called Sister Ria’s...
View ArticleAttempted Gardening
Neither my wife nor myself would be considered plant savvy. Despite this we try to grow things. Just for kicks I thought I might document the effort this year, as pathetic as they might be. The...
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The Front Beds
One major constraint on my gardening efforts is price. I mean, after all, we aren’t very good at this so why spend a bunch of money. So, instead of buying trays of flowers we are growing from seed. We...
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Containers Out Back
In the back yard I’ve planted some vegetables, and herbs in containers and pots. In addition we had raspberry and blackberry growing in pots already. I think they were planted 2 or 3 years ago. We had...
View ArticleAnd Then the Cold Came
Last week all the temperatures were in the upper 70s and we even had a couple of days in the mid 80s! The plants really took off. I noticed the first tomato forming. It was about the size of a marble...
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