I barely pay attention to them. But have you ever wondered how so many companies can claim that those who switched to their company from some other company (that makes similar commercials) all seem to save a few hundred dollars? It seems logically impossible. Some of them must be lying in spite of the fact [...]

Even though I have no expertise on the subject I can’t help but notice that it is ridiculous that Americans pay 1.3 trillion for 1.O trillion dollars worth of health care. At least that is what I hear. The extra 300 billion goes to the expenses and profits related to reshuffling everybody’s money. In other [...]

When I was six or seven my father had me study the illons after a trillion. Quadrillion, quintillion, sextillion….decillion, novemdecillion,…septdecillion etc. It took fifty years but finally these bigger numbers will start entering the average man’s vocabulary. At least quadrillion is now, because of inflation, a number that can have a dollar sign preceding it. [...]

It seems to me that even if the economy fully recovers, high unemployment might remain. Unless the government puts more people to work. I say that because there really is only so much that the country will pay a decent wage to get done. And we are getting more and more efficient at doing it. [...]

Just a small mathematical comment. You need not take from the rich and give to the poor to accomplish that goal. Say the average net worth of every American is $50,000. An then government sends a 50K check to every person. Since the total net worth of the country in dollars has doubled but there [...]