Monthly Archives: November 2009

In the spring of 1997 economist Robert Higgs wrote an article for the Independent Review titled:  “Regime Uncertainty; why the Great Depression lasted so long and why prosperity resumed after the war.”  The thesis of the article is that the … Continue reading →

Last night my wife and I attended a play at a local theater in our little town of Winona, Minnesota.  Locally written and produced, it represented the conflict between recent immigrants of Polish and German ancestry during World War I.  … Continue reading →

Monday, November 9, 2009 I was privileged to join four other people who shared their stories about their history with the infamous Berlin Wall.  It was the 20th anniversary of the fall of the wall.  Many of the students in … Continue reading →

The following subjects have been banging around in my head over the past few weeks, so I thought I would deal with them this Sunday. Privileged Few: The Wall Street Firm of Goldman Sachs, where average salaries are about $90,000 … Continue reading →

On July 25, 1971 I was a 22 year old economics graduate of Graceland College in Lamoni, Iowa.  It was a Sunday morning as I walked into the infamous shack on Berlin’s Friedrichstrasse with my friends Les Blanchard and Greg … Continue reading →