Milan, Italy
Here is the last of my photo highlights from my trip to Europe. Hope you enjoyed the series a fraction as much as I enjoyed taking them!
Good column over at Bloomberg.com from Peter J. Wallison, Arthur F. Burns Fellow in Financial Policy Studies at the American Enterprise Institute. — The subprime and other junk mortgages that Fannie and Freddie bought — and the market in these mortgages that their buying spawned — are the underlying cause of the financial crisis. These…
Back in September, I went to Toronto for a week to take on the AIIM Enterprise Content Management certificate program. I was particularly interested in the program because it took a comprehensive look at all the various facets of ECM, without being technology-specific. SharePoint was certainly referenced many times in the course and at least…
Since Derek is a member of the “Crew” (I’ll let one of them explain in a comment what exactly that is), he thinks it would be fun to help me out in the delivery room with some of their more famous chants. I’m not entirely opposed to this, as I want to laugh as much…
How I love the Tax Foundation‘s ability to put things into perspective. As oil prices have hit record highs along with oil company profits (and thereby the returns to shareholders), many in Congress are calling for a windfall profits tax on oil companies. They argue that those profits are somehow unjustified. But what about another…
It ain’t easy bein’ green, especially in Marburg, Germany where a new building ordinance now requires any homeowner that does roof or heating system repairs to install solar panels. From his deck, Mr. Schönherr can see the town’s famous hilltop Gothic castle as well as two of its three power-generating windmills. On his roof, a…