When to Sell a Stock
My biggest mistake in 25 years of writing newspaper and magazine articles about the stock market started innocently. My intention, in a February 23, 2003, column for the Washington Post, was to show readers how to analyze a stock and decide whether to buy it. The...“Intelligent Design”: Religion Masquerading as Science
Its advertising to the contrary notwithstanding, “intelligent design” is inherently a quest for the supernatural.
“Windfall Profits” Tax on Oil Companies
“An angry public wants quick relief from high prices” at the pump, says Business Week. That’s hardly a surprise. Over the past year, the Energy Department reports, a gallon of regular gasoline has gone from $1.86 to $2.96. But even at less than...Life Imitates Fiction at Amtrak: Shades of Atlas Shrugged’s Taggart Transcontinental Railroad
Millions of people have read Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged and marveled at her fictional portrayals of the badly run Taggart Transcontinental Railroad and a statist national government. Today, as Congress considers showering Amtrak with higher subsidies, it’s...Global Warming and Hurricanes: Still No Connection
While the impacts of the currently active hurricane period are being felt especially hard in the United States, there remains no scientific proof that human contributions to an enhanced greenhouse effect are the root cause.
