Archive for the 'Finance' Category

POLITICS AND RELIGION

   For as long as I can remember I have heard people say “Don’t discuss politics or religion”.That makes sense because both are subjective issues and people usually adhere to religion as a ‘faith-based system of salvation’. Faith is the sticking point.
People do not change unless given a reason and since the principles of a [...]

IN MEMORIAM

AUBURN            1904-1937
CORD                  1929-1937
CROSLEY           1939-1952
DUESENBERG   1913-1926
ESSEX                  1919-1932
HUDSON             1910-1957
KAISER               1945-1956
NASH                   1916-1957
PACKARD       [...]

What Went Wrong?

A number of years ago I started seeing ads on TV that went something like:
“I owed the IRS $10,000 but I went to the firm of Joe Cheat and Associates and I only had to pay back $400.”
This, in my opinion, was the start. People tried to weasel out of their obligations in a semi-acceptable [...]

PLASTIC

 Plastic (Polyethylene)
During my recent travels I drove along a highway in western Florida where some road construction was underway in the median strip.
It was a four-lane Interstate highway with the wide median strip the level of which was below the center of the highway lanes.
During the last decade it seems that no one is permitted  [...]

Corn Biofuel

One last comment.
If everyone seems to know that corn biofuel costs more to produce than the equivalent energy available from gasoline, that it requires fertilizers that pollute water, that by displacing wheat production it is causing all food prices to increase, why is corn production being subsidized?

addthis_url = ‘http%3A%2F%2Fwww.jwmalenda.com%2Fblog%2F2008%2F02%2F15%2Fcorn-biofuel%2F’;
[...]