“The best investment on earth is earth.” — Louis Glickman, 1957 By Franklin Sanders Lots of folks write about the need to revive local economies, but not many actually …
Yesterday my wife, Jeannette, told me about a friend who had called her regarding Carolyn Lonas, a local woman who is dying of cancer. The friend is concerned that …
So our “money” is phony, merely resembling the genuine article of generations ago. Money today is a figment of the imagination. Very well, but if all that is true, …
By David Tulis A favorite character in the scriptures is Nehemiah, the Israelite who was cupbearer to an alien king, Artaxerxes, and sent back to his home country to …
The big story this week is the selection by former Mormon bishop and stake president Mitt Romney of a Roman Catholic running mate, Paul Ryan. Tennessee Sen. Bob Corker …
It’s Thursday evening and I am at Ryan’s Steakhouse in Hixson, waiting in one of the closed dining areas — the wrong one, it turns out — for Ron …
By Richard Franklin In grade school we were taught that the “New Deal” and the public works programs of FDR saved the country from The Great Depression brought on …
By Franklin Sanders We live in a tapeworm economy. The monetary system enables those who control the government-sanctioned money creation franchise to feed on all the rest of us …