The buying opportunity of a lifetime

That’s what the last week’s 18 percent plunge in the Dow represents. We may well have a world-wide economic recession or depression, and I don’t think the United States escapes the economic malaise for at least two years. (More, if the government...

A distinction with a difference

Homeownership is a great thing. Promoting homeownership is not. (This so reminds me of the difference between voting and encouraging others to vote.) Is it too obvious to say that much of the financial mess we’re in comes from people owning houses they have no...

My favorite crime story

There is no better police story comedy for me than when a suspect attempts to resist a police dog. The big German Shepherds are trained to bite the first body part the offender makes available and not to let go until commanded to do so by their police officer partner....