In the Manhattan Contrarian, Francis Menton shows how China’s system has” enormous disadvantages, mostly self-inflicted by the ruling Communist Party...
“All I can tell you it that it’s hard,” my father-in-law Dick Young told me. “Getting older means pretty much everything is harder. It’s not easy. And you need a team to help you...
As long-time readers will know, Debbie and I moved to Key West around 30 years ago. One of the highlights of our time here has been the live music scene in town ...
As Hurricane Idalia barrels down upon Florida’s Panhandle, the news is hot, wet, and politized. A febrile media claims case counts are on the rise, reports Matthew Hennessey in the WSJ. Hennessey pledges this time to take a stand ...
The one way for you to beat inertia is to take action. We all have dreams about who we want to be and how we want to live, but actually doing something about it can be hard. Taking action is doing something. If you have money collecting dust in a low-interest-bearing bank account, consider opening an account with Fidelity...
Debbie and I put in over 125,000 miles on a succession of Harley-Davidson Road Kings and Heritage Classics. From 1992 through 2017, we spent 25 years crisscrossing the small towns and cities of North America. And twice we made the long pilgrimage to Sturgis, South Dakota for “Bike Week.” ...
Last week the Commerce Department made the decision to slap tariffs on solar imports from Southeast Asia. The tariffs will raise the costs of U.S. solar-energy projects that the Biden White House claims to be the vital future of U.S. energy...
It was a typical Saturday morning, except Your Survival Guy was heading back to college to drop off my son for year two. What could be so hard about that, I thought. Four hours of assembling a couch and coffee table later, I’m here to say it wasn’t as easy as I thought it would be...
Forecasts for Tropical Storm Idalia suggest its center will pass hundreds of miles to the north of our home in Key West, heading inland near Tampa, where residents should be exercising caution. National Weather Service forecaster Joe Rizzo has suggested Idalia is a “candidate for rapid intensification.” ...
