Unions not only destroyed many once-proud American businesses, but also promulgated such evils as a 40 hour workweek (remember that?), health and safety regulations on the job that have saved many workers’ lives, paid vacations, and the now-discredited idea of defined-benefit pensions, plus a particular horror this country used to value called “job security.”
And let’s [...]

The Joneses play at Phillippi Mansion Park in Sarasota, Florida. I’ve always loved this song, and this is a fine, unadorned version of it.

I believe the economic prediction economy has recovered and is now quite healthy. Indeed, here in Florida economists never really felt a recession. If anything, the recession created a greater market for them than ever, since local news media here have been running, “Economist says real estate has bottomed, now is the time to buy,” [...]