Lacunae Musing

By now Rick Perry's opinion piece in today's Wall Street Journal is making some waves. In many ways I agree with you, Rick, partic...

The recently completed $38 billion battle of brinksmanship over next year's federal budget is going to look like child's play in com...

For the second year in a row, this happy news from the SSA, received in the mail yesterday: "Your Social Security benefits are protecte...

This entry is a redirect to the site of the John Hussman, an academic economist turned mutual fund manager , who takes a long-term perspecti...

“We are out of money.” This is the “news” we’ve feared, although expected, but not so soon: the admission that the US economic system (not n...

As a change of pace – away from my normal interest in literature and biography -- I read Nassim Taleb’s The Black Swan; The Impact of the Hi...