Archive for February, 2011
« Previous EntriesWhat is Charity?
Monday, February 28th, 2011I’ve been listening to the audiobook of Who Really Cares: The Surprising Truth About Compassionate Conservatism* by Arthur Brooks. The book came out several years ago but I’m just now taking the time to listen/read it. The purpose of the book was to look at charity (who gives and doesn’t give) in America based entirely [...]
More Talk of Mortgage Principal Reductions
Thursday, February 24th, 2011In today’s WSJ: The Obama administration is trying to push through a settlement over mortgage-servicing breakdowns that could force America’s largest banks to pay for reductions in loan principal worth billions of dollars. Terms of the administration’s proposal include a commitment from mortgage servicers to reduce the loan balances of troubled borrowers who owe more [...]
Links to the CPI Tables Going Back to 2000
Wednesday, February 23rd, 2011I have been spending some time the last couple of days, looking at the CPI reports. If you’ve never looked at one of these reports, I urge you to do so. They’re pretty interesting. I still can’t for the life of me figure out why the BLS groups Education and Communications together. Why not give [...]
An Interesting Inflation Graphic
Tuesday, February 22nd, 2011I found this link on facebook the other day. Check it out: CPI Categories Since 2000. From what I can tell, they got their numbers for college tuition from the BLS like I did. I’m not sure why their numbers are so much higher than mine are.
Why Does the CPI Put Education and Communication in the Same Category?
Monday, February 21st, 2011I was looking at the CPI numbers this morning and noticed something interesting. For some reason, the CPI puts education and communications together in the same category: I can think of one good reason to group the two together: to hide the inflation rate of education. To see what I mean, take a look at [...]
Political “Math”
Thursday, February 17th, 2011Last week I was part of a rather heated discussion on facebook about Texas’ budget woes and proposed cuts to its education budget. One of the people involved in the discussion was a school adminstrator. I asked him how he would solve the supposed education cuts. He wrote this: “A .01% increase in taxes would [...]
My Favorites of John Wooden’s Favorite Maxims
Thursday, February 17th, 2011John Wooden was one of my favorite leadership examples. I have several books by him and like them all. I was reading Wooden: A Lifetime of Observations and Reflections on and Off the Court* last night and came across a list of Coach Wooden’s favorite maxims in the back of the book. I chose some [...]
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