Gonna try something different
Nota Bene #94: Bear Vs. Ninja
“Overture, curtain, lights
Nota Bene #89: Horrors
With apologies to Edgar Allan Poe… Once upon a midnight dreary, as you quaffed drinks brown and beery, Came a tapping amid the gloom, upon the closed door of your room. You […]
A forerunner of credit-card debt helped spawn the Revolutionary War
Washington was caught in the trap that was snaring so many other Virginia planters and that Thomas Jefferson, another victim, described as the chronic condition of indebtedness, which then became “hereditary from […]
Welcome to the jungle: How "gotcha capitalism" has destroyed the American social contract
By Martin Bosworth In order for a disparate group of individuals to band together into a workable community, there have to be rules, both implicit and explicit. There are laws that people […]
Congress, candidates call credit card companies on the carpet
By Martin Bosworth Just in time for the holiday season, the 110th Congress has renewed its push for credit card companies and lenders to clean up their act. Michigan Democrat Carl Levin, […]
A college education should be a road to success, not a path to bankruptcy
This weekend George Bush did something so out-of-character that it seems impossible to believe–he signed into law new legislation that will actually benefit the American people. Specifically new laws that overhaul the […]
