I couldn’t resist this one. After seeing ads for expensive new cars with big gift bows on top, diamond necklaces and fancy winter vacations, I started wondering what the average American will be getting from Santa this year. With so many unemployed, so many forced out of their homes, so many desperate, and so much [...]

A little lighter fare for the holidays. I’ll be back to my nasty old self soon enough.

I’m no fan of Christmas shopping, but the last thing this struggling economy needed was a huge blizzard wiping out crucial shopping days in some of the largest markets in the country. It’s depressing to think that the only quick way out of this recession is for rampant consumerism to come roaring back. What I [...]

With job creation at the top of the economic wish list as the nation slowly recovers from the deep recession, and with the Afghanistan decision made, Obama last week convened a jobs summit. The truth is, and everyone knows it, there’s little more that can be done to create the millions of jobs needed to [...]