Ralph Reiland
It’s not hard if you have a show on MSNBC. There’s a mantra and all you do is repeat it, like a fourth grade math teacher going over the same fractions year after year until she starts to develop a…
The big news out of Sweden is that lunch lady Annika Eriksson has been shut down. Eriksson was an exceptionally creative and hardworking head cook at a school in central Sweden — too creative and too resourceful as it turns…
Eleven months before he was assassinated as he rode with his wife in the back seat of an open convertible in a motorcade through downtown Dallas, President John F. Kennedy delivered a major address to the Economic Club of New…
The funny thing about the Labor Department’s monthly unemployment report is that the number-crunching bureaucrats act like they’re delivering high carat diamonds when the real worth of what they’re reporting is closer to the value of a mud pie. First,…
The way the federal government runs things is already bad enough, but it’s officially projected to get only worse, much worse, in the years ahead according to the government’s own number crunchers. In fiscal year 2011 — October 1, 2010…
They say the economy is moving in the right direction, that we should stay the course, be patient, that it takes time to pull out of the recession that began in late 2007. In fact, things are getting worse. The…
Where are the jobs? That’s the first question we should be asking in what’s now become the slowest economic recovery since the Great Depression — or, more precisely, the longest non-recovery since the 1930s. “More than 23 million Americans are…
President Obama’s “you didn’t build that” comment has become a top campaign issue. The uproar began when Obama, speaking on July 13 in Roanoke, Virginia, emphasized how an individual’s success in business is directly dependent upon the government’s spending on…
“The last thing you want to do is to raise taxes in the middle of a recession, because that would just suck up, take more demand out of the economy and put businesses in a further hole.” That wasn’t Ronald…
SEA ISLE, N.J. — Sunday morning started off as a nice and uneventful day at the shore, just a little windy. The big story on the front page of the Press of Atlantic City was about which pizza was the…
