but I feel compelled to state an untold truth about the deregulatory environment in our country: Deregulation isn’t necessarily in your interest. Deregulating industries and markets is in the interest of the corporations, their largest customers and people who own the company’s stock. (Everybody who wanted natural gas deregulated, please raise your hand.) In the early days … [Read more...] about Jan. 7, 2002: I Usually Leave Economics Lessons to the Professors
2002 Columns
January 1, 2002: Annual Letter To My Grandsons:
As we begin this new year, I wish your great-grandmother were around to put things into proper perspective for us. She always found something good in everything and everybody -- although I imagine network television news and Osama bin Laden would be a stretch even for her. If Granny were here, no doubt she would say that despite the unprovoked attacks of Sept. 11, we … [Read more...] about January 1, 2002: Annual Letter To My Grandsons: