What is and what ain't

Click HERE for today's column, which answers the question I posed last week: Can the CNMI's system be changed?

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Where there's smoke, there's smoke

Click HERE for today's column. Ever wonder why there's always so much talk about "investment" in the Commonwealth, but so little action? I explain the whole process.

Good Girls Don't

Click HERE for today's column. We note the passing of a generation's voice, and we also take a look at some really high-class literature...hey, that's the biz, sweetheart.

Make mine a double (double-wide, that is)

Click HERE for today's article, which is a book review of "Intermodal Shipping Container Small Steel Buildings." This is probably destined for cult classic status with those of us who have used containers as small warehouses, offices, or shops...I know people who have even made them into little homes.

Here's the Amazon link (current as of this posting).

Here's a link to author Paul Sawyers' web site.

How much is "some"?

Click HERE for today's column...especially if you've decided to "learn Chinese." Learn Chinese? All of it? That's a lot of Chinese. Ok, then, some of it. That's logical enough, but just how much is "some"?

And, yeah, while I was waxing philosophical on language, I threw in a typo: I didn't really mean to write "since because." I know how this happened. I didn't know which word to use, so I just put both, intending to cull out the extra on my revision. And then I didn't. See? The American work ethic really has gone downhill...

Us vs. Them

Click HERE for today's column. The "Us vs. Them" outlook is a lot more popular than the cool "indifference" studied by economists.

Oily loop-de-loop

Oil prices....they're baaaack. Click HERE to read the story.

Flying coconuts and rented nukes

Click HERE for today's column. The Asian arms race that I foresee will hold a lot of surprises...and a Rent-a-Nuke idea is mighty creative.

A man with a tape recorder up his nose

Click HERE for today's column. This is going to be such a zany, madcap year in economics it will seem like a Monty Python skit.

So, just to get you in the mood for 2010, here is, indeed, the man with a tape recorder up his nose.

Credit: Not gone (yet)

Click HERE for today's column, which highlights a blessing worth counting: As we start the New Year, credit is still available to entrepreneurs.