Kavanna

It's a shame, but I have reached the point of no longer having the time to blog as I once did -- life has too many other demands at this point. So I'm quitting the blogging life, perhaps for good, perhaps just for a time.I don't need to expand much on...

... are often more than we know, or so runs an old English proverb.Linking to a post by Fabius Maximus, I recently pointed out the heavy level of societal indebtedness in America, especially household and consumer debt. The developing economic downturn...

The idea floating around (one version proposed by McCain) that the government should buy up "troubled" mortgages is as misguided notion as they come. "Troubled" itself is hard to define. Is it determined by the borrowers' difficulties...

The recent Austrian elections saw gains by far-right parties. The death of one of their leaders, Jörg Haider (at four times the legal alcohol limit, author of the carnage on the right), brings to mind an important debate in the blogosphere and elsewhere...