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Raising the Roof 6 – Panic

Today the Dow Jones Average dropped 500 points after dropping 800 over the past 10 days.  How is that possible?  I thought Congress and the president had saved us by raising the debt ceiling. I thought Wall Street liked certainty and Tuesday’s deal for raising...

Raising the Roof 5 – Puzzlement

Well, the Debt Ceiling debate has ended.  The deadline was August 2 and that’s when the politicians finally got around to doing something.  The “whimper-instead-of-bang” conclusion to the debate had few surprises: the debt ceiling was raised (yawn),...

Raising the Roof – 4

Part of my family lore is that, through my paternal grandmother, I’m descended from Davy Crockett.  Maybe I am and maybe I’m not.  Someday I’ll join Ancestry.Com and find out. There’s a Davy Crockett story from his time in Congress that bears...

Raising the Roof – 3

I’m tired of the Debt Ceiling debate, mainly because I don’t think anything meaningful will come out of it.  A recent poll showed that 69% of Americans don’t want the Debt Ceiling raised, but prefer that the Feds learn to live within their means. ...

Local Wisdom

Living in the Atlanta metro area as I do, I’ve watched several locally founded companies like Coca-Cola, Delta Airlines, Turner Broadcasting, and Home Depot.  Being an entrepreneur myself, I appreciate these rags-to-riches companies’ stories. So I was...
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