Sports and political campaigns have a lot in common.  Underdogs sometimes win; favorites sometimes lose.  Not always, to be sure, and maybe not even most of the time.  But often enough to make what is happening in this year’s presidential campaign not all that surprising.             The sports analogy is most clearly evident with […]

            Last week I presented an admittedly simplified explanation of the two economic theories that are represented by the candidacies of Barack Obama and Mitt Romney.  I characterized them as “bottom-up” for Obama and “top-down” for Romney.             To briefly restate the difference between the two, the bottom-up view holds that a vibrant economy grows […]

            Have you heard about “The Clock”?  It’s a movie, of sorts, that is 24 hours long, but no one ever watches the whole run of it.             The “film” is the creation of Christian Marclay, whose idea it was to piece together clips of movies that all, in one way or another, reflect the […]

            The Republicans had their rah-rah, go-team party last week, and the Democrats have now had theirs this week.  So, now that all the balloons have been dropped, the speeches have been delivered and analyzed from every angle, the pollsters have decided which are the swing states and who are the swing voters, and with […]