As far as I can tell from reading op-eds about the need for a second stimulus, this is how things got to be the way they are: ° After the financial crisis everyone got scared about the future and stopped buying the crap they don't really need. ° The companies that make the crap people don't really...
Legendary Service The other day I needed to buy a gift and saw that TD Bank sells gift Visa cards. I like TD -- they are open 7 days a week and someone always asks you how they can help you when you walk in there, and it always looks pretty empty. They obviously don't sell a lot of gift cards because...
Quotes from Koestler's The Sleepwalkers : "One of the points that I have laboured in this book is the unitary source of the mystical and scientific modes of experience;" "The inertia of the human mind and its resistance to innovation are most clearly demonstrated not, as one might...
I was thinking about the futility of low interest rates and easy credit as the cure for everything and a Yiddish proverb my parents used to use jumped into my head: Es helft wie a teiten, bankes It means It helps like leeches for a corpse but it's more pithy and rhythmic in Yiddish.