I received an email today - as I do many times during the course of the week - from a family member who must be convinced the we see the world in the same way.  I am sure that many of you have someone that prowls your email this way.  Based on some skewed version [...]

Son,
Shocked, but not surprised.  That is often the reaction of intelligent people when bad things happen.  A very bad thing is happening on our planet.  Poverty and hunger have become so devastating that the statisticians now refer to a segment of the human population as ‘the bottom billion.’
We are talking about people who live on [...]

Son,
We in this country are on the verge of a recession.  I see two realities in this prediction - one is an academic understanding of economics - the other is the real human disaster of poverty and despair.  I’ll speak first to economics - it is important to understand some basic principles.
A recession is generally [...]