"A republic, if you can keep it."
"A republic, if you can keep it."
What do fiscal and economic policy have to do with cheesemaking and local food? Quite a bit. First, our money is the basis for exchange. Without a healthy dollar, our customers can’t buy what we sell. (Increasingly we trade rather…
Our government is awash in deficit spending and debt. Our leaders assure us that this is sane fiscal policy. Sure, they quibble over how much to tax and how much to spend, but the truth is, even the Tea Party…
There’s something wrong with our country and hugely stressed society. It’s not just that we twice as much money on Viagra as we do on research to cure Alzheimer’s Disease. It’s not just that, although gun crime is down, the…
I’m an accountant by trade, so numbers and statistics fascinate me. My dad is an accountant, too, so it’s in my blood. One of the issues I watch is the government’s fiscal policy – the management of the federal budget…
A friend and organic farmer notes that if you spray paint designs on cars, no matter how beautiful and copyrighted they may be, if your overspray damages another car, you pay for the damage. Not so with GMO crops –…