In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation. There is no safe store of value.

I am saddened that it is politically inconvenient to acknowledge what everyone knows: the Iraq war is largely about oil.

The tub helps me relax, and it's a great place to read.

I'm a plain soap kind of guy.

I was a fairly good amateur musician, and I was an average professional. But the one thing I saw was that the big band business was fading.

Productivity is notoriously difficult to predict.

Regulation - which is based on force and fear - undermines the moral base of business dealings. It becomes cheaper to bribe a building inspector than to meet his standards of construction. Protection of the consumer by regulation is thus illusory.