[CAPITALISM MAGAZINE.COM] President George W. Bush is his father's son. In place of principle -- right or wrong -- we see waffling. His recent approach to the stem-cell research debate illustrates this fact eloquently. The President came up with a decision designed to...
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Supply Chain 101
I find that my expertise as a supply chain management consultant helps me a great deal with my investing strategy. These days, a lot of brokerages -- Morgan Stanley, Salamon Smith Barney, and Prudential to name a few -- are getting excited about the semi-conductor...
“Fixing” Social Security
As Congress debates "fixing" the Ponzi scheme we call Social Security, consider a few things: Congress established Social Security with a little-known loophole, allowing states and municipalities to exempt their public employees from Social Security. In 1981, two...
Is Al Gore Manning the Bush EPA?
When the Bush administration lands on the same side of an issue as The New York Times editorial board, Sen. Hillary Clinton and the Sierra Club, it's time to clear out the cockpit. The administration's latest junk science decision should cause Bush supporters to...
Inside the Crime: Why is Chandra Levy Missing?
One of the clues in the Chandra Levy case that may have been dismissed too quickly was a call to the police on the morning of her disappearance, reporting a woman's scream heard in the building where she lived. This seems to have been disregarded as an unrelated event...
Make Welfare Mothers Work
In the spring of 1994, the last full year of welfare as we knew it, 112,000 Massachusetts families were on the dole. In the spring of 2001, the caseload stands at 41,500 -- a reduction of 63 percent. So spectacular has the success of welfare reform been that it is...
President Bush’s Biotechnology Blinders
The president's recent decision on embryonic stem cell research has been described in most reports as a compromise that balances the views of scientists, who want to move forward unrestrictedly, against the views of the religious right, who call for a total ban on...
The Real Problem About Congressman Gary Condit is Not Chandra Levy
The latest political spin is that we should shift our focus away from Congressman Gary Condit and concentrate on finding Chandra Levy. But what we really need to do -- and urgently -- is begin to shift our focus away from Chandra Levy and look much more closely and...
Barbarians at the G8
The leaders of the world's most advanced nations, plus Russia, met recently at the G8 summit in Genoa, Italy, to discuss ways to increase trade and international cooperation -- about the most peaceful and civilized thing that the world's leaders could possibly do....
Legalizing Paternity Fraud
She told him he was the little girl's father, and he believed her. When the state asked him to acknowledge his paternity, he went in and signed the paper they put before him. Though scarcely more than a child himself, he understood that good men don't walk away from...
Publik Skool Biggotz
Nothing breeds sophomoric resentment like academic success. So it's no surprise that home schoolers and their children are the target of a spiteful T-shirt sold in retail stores and online. The short-sleeved shirt is white with red trim. A red silhouette of a mobile...
The Ugly Truth About Oracle
Last week, an article in the Wall Street Journal reported that Oracle had overstated the number of customers that it had for its most recent release (release 11i) of its applications. The article also implied that customers were not buying 11i or were not migrating...
The Defrauders Next Door: The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
Fraud is so inherent to the operation of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development that "HUD Scandal" might as well be one word. The latest hudscandal involves a feel-good program (what else?) for cops and teachers. Since 1997, police officers have been...
Cisco Blows It
I've been saying for weeks that the markets would be waiting for Cisco's earnings report -- which was released yesterday after the bell -- to set the tone for the post-earnings season world. That's because Cisco was a winner of "the gorilla game" as it was played...
Sharon Should Have Said No To Powell
Earlier this year in April (2001), Secretary of State Colin Powell rebuked Israel for sending tanks and bulldozers into Gaza following Palestinian mortar attacks on the Israeli town of Sederot. "The Israeli response," he said, "was excessive and disproportionate." Of...
United Nations
The United Nations will open its "World Conference Against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance" (let's call it WCAR) on Aug 31 in Durban, South Africa. Already there are threats to pull out by the United States unless agenda proposals...
Big Nanny Takes a Bath
Every night, I roll up my sleeves, take off my socks, and climb into the bathtub with my 11-month-old daughter, her two rubber duckies, a Mickey Mouse sponge, and a pile of floating toy debris. She splashes and squirms incessantly, but I have at least one hand on her...
George Gilder Shouldn’t Blame His Bungle on the Government
Yesterday the Wall Street Journal ran an extraordinary op-ed piece by George Gilder, called Tumbling into the Telechasm. In it, the celebrated author of Telecosm and the publisher of the Gilder Technology Report lists all the federal government's catastrophic policy...
An Unbiased Eye for Education
His nomination isn't even official yet, but the knives are already out for Gerald Reynolds, the former president of the Center for New Black Leadership whom President Bush has tapped to run the Education Department's Office of Civil Rights. His crime? He opposes...
Questions & Answers On Privatizing Social Security
Aren't most people too unsophisticated to manage their private account? This is a valid concern, but there are simple solutions that have worked well over twenty years with 401(k) plans, and they could easily be applied here. First, rudimentary investment education...
Relief for America’s Health Care Titanic
Over the past few months, congress has been trying to make it easier for employees to sue their employers if they are not happy with their health insurance plans. Yes, you read that correctly. Liberal-socialist-statists want to hold employers responsible for the fact...
The Green Party vs. American Capitalism
The Green Party has 362 candidates running in 39 States. If they can tap into the uncertainty and resentment of voters, they are likely to draw votes from Democrats in the mid-term elections. Political analysts believe Ralph Nader's run for the presidency in 2000 took...
Intel Crushes AMD: Will Cisco Join Them?
As we continue through the slow and painful process of building a bottom after the great techwreck of 2000/2001, we have the opportunity to crash-test a great investment thesis from the irrationally exuberant era of the late great bull market -- "gorilla investing."...
A Cost Benefit Analysis on Privatizing Social Security
In my commentaries this week, I've discussed the transcendent importance to the economy and the markets of the potential for restructuring Social Security, to include individually managed private accounts. I've talked about some of the myths about Social Security, and...
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