Eric Scheske

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Economics

Wednesday

Freaking Out and Princely Freaks Are we all (am I) unduly freaking out about the economy? Hard to say: "In the last few years, however, something strange has happened. While there is no lack of survivalists stockpiling cat food and rifles, some of the direst thinkers are now working

Wednesday

Miscellany Link to the PBS special, Niall Ferguson's The Ascent of Money [http://video.pbs.org/program/1155680272/]. * * * * * * * Ah crap. I was hoping we'd hold strong at $12 trillion: The U.S. debt will top $13.6 trillion this year and climb to an estimated $19.

An Hour with Faber

In lieu of an actual post today (see below), I'm posting this yet-unseen video. It's Marc Faber, giving a one-hour overview of our economy's huge problems. I say it's "unseen" because I haven't seen it yet. The folks

Tuesday

New Socks Max (6) was content Sunday night. He was sitting in front of eight pairs of new socks: four white, four dark blue. Marie said to me, "Look what Max has. New socks." Max was grinning. Marie explained, "He's never gotten new socks before.

Tuesday

My Son, the Duke My son leaves for Lansing tomorrow. The reason? "Youth in Government." He's spending four days at the Michigan capital to learn how government works. I'm pretty excited about it. I told him to take it seriously because (and this is

Socialist Monday

Already Tired I have a confession: I write my Monday blog entries on Sunday. Haffta. There's too much going on Monday mornings to surf and post. But yesterday, I couldn't find much to blog about. Everything was about health care [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/

Thursday

Time scarce. Just two things today: 1. Nerds with a sense of humor. The financial mavericks at Zero Hedge slay me: > Greece has just become the biggest sovereign debt panhandler, begging its own people for a bailout. The Greek situation is now so bad that as of a few

Monday

The Lawful Stalker Census takers will be arriving shortly, and they'll be asking a lot of invasive questions. With that in mind, watch this nifty little video [http://www.thepostmanscorner.net/da/movies9116.html]. Caveat: The commentator is correct about the plain wording of the constitution, but I

Wednesday

"Strep Wednesday." Just a slight case, but I've been feeling lousy. Penicillin kicking in shortly, I hope. For today, just this: Gadgets That Will Save You Money [http://shopping.yahoo.com/articles/yshoppingarticles/342/gadgets-that-will-save-you-money/] . I normally click on these sites and see a bunch of

Crowding Out

h/t [http://cafehayek.com/]