Tom Blumer
Tom Blumer owns a training and development company based in Mason, Ohio, outside of Cincinnati. He presents personal finance-related workshops and speeches at companies, and runs BizzyBlog.com.
The Ghosts Haunting America’s Factories and Offices
Jeb Bush revived Florida. People like Ohio’s John Kasich can do the same, but only if Washington’s ghosts are tamed.
Fan and Fred: Frauds by Design?
A new revelation makes their failures look more contrived than incompetent.
Economic Rebound? What Economic Rebound?
An AP writer’s year-end wrap-up epitomizes 2009’s biased reporting on the economy.
A ‘Progressive’ Christmas: More Financially Trying, Less Visible
Taking “Christmas” out of a mediocre shopping season.
A Tax You Can (Almost) Like
Taxing college tuitions, though a really bad idea, has significant surface appeal.
Repeal the Social Security Earnings Penalty
Junking this antique would aid an economic recovery by encouraging people to keep working.
Three Big Stories, Three Media Disappearing Acts
How media magicians have made $80 billion, the homeless, and a (thus far) marginal Christmas shopping season disappear.
Deconstructing ClimateGate’s Smoking-Gun Email
A leading light of climate change inadvertently exposes AGW’s crumbling foundation.
Kelo, GM, and the Stimulus: Three Examples of Government-Induced Failure
Government-managed economic projects rarely deliver.
Touched by a Real-Life Angel
The heroic mom of a wounded serviceman shakes the author out of a temporary torpor.
