This is my first column in three weeks. I didn’t skip writing a column because I’m tired of writing it. It sure as hell wasn’t because of a lack of material. The fact of the matter … more

Things are going poorly in Ukraine for both the Russians and Ukrainians. The Russians are demonstrating brutality and incompetence on a shocking scale, causing terrible suffering for Ukraine’s … more

Sixty years ago when I was an economics student at St. Benedict’s College in Atchison, Kan. – now Benedictine College – we were taught that there were two kinds of inflation: … more