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Opportunity Cost, Opportunity Lost
Posted on December 13, 2012
According to Wikipedia: “Opportunity cost is the cost of any activity measured in terms of the value of the next best alternative forgone (that is not chosen). It is the...
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General Washington
Posted on December 12, 2012
Newt Gingrich famously compared himself to the Duke of Wellington during the Budget wars of 1995-96. Wellington fought and eventually vanquished Napoleon during the Peninsular campaign in Napoleonic Wars in...
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Reinvent Our Tax Code
Posted on December 11, 2012
First published in The Hill. Isn’t it time that we reinvent our tax code? Negotiations over the so-called “fiscal cliff” have stalled over whether policymakers should accept 98 percent of...
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Thinking Big; Thinking Small
Posted on December 11, 2012
Mike Simpson is thinking big. Barack Obama is thinking small. Simpson, an Idaho Republican, recently spearheaded a bipartisan letter in the House urging negotiators to go big when dealing with...
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Practical Religion
Posted on December 10, 2012
Funny story. There are six and half years between my son Jack and my daughter Molly. When we were getting ready to take Molly home from the hospital for the...
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