Calling a market top in Jamestown commemorations

Going by Barry Ritholtz’s theory that magazine covers are a contrary indicator, I predict that Time‘s current cover on Jamestown means there won’t be any more major Jamestown commemorations for, say, a century. In case you were wondering, this observation is (1) a dodgy excuse to get in my second post of the day, because [...]

Is 28% of GDP too much to pay in taxes?

A former soccer teammate of mine had this to say about my posts a couple of weeks back about the constancy of the tax burden over the past half century or so. (The federal tax burden is around 18.5% of GDP, which is about the average for the post-war era, while the combined federal, state [...]