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Anyone who experienced World War I close-hand was grossed out by it forever. It just was so awful.

Forever Hands War

The 1920s are the decade that signaled the arrival of a gift that still means a lot to us: Saturday.

Mean Saturday Stills

Economics are part of our life. We try to treat them separately, like over there is the economy and here is history. Econ affects history and history often doesn't get it right if it doesn't respect econ.

Economics Economy Trying

Coolidge showed that the best government was the one that got out of the way. When he refrained, the economy grew, the Ku Klux Klan faded, and Americans got Model A's and automobiles.

Government Ku Klux Klan Way

If Coolidge were a stock, he'd be a buy. The experts have historically ranked Coolidge in the bottom quartile or bottom half of all presidents. But his economic performance and his statesmanship suggest Coolidge belongs in the top quarter of presidents. The disparity between the Coolidge price and Coolidge value is huge. So revision is warranted.

Experts Half President

Coolidge was a federalist. You go back and read him and it's almost intimidating to write about him because he writes better himself than anyone. He's one of the best writers as presidents go.

Intimidating President Writing

I'm not sure Roosevelt was quite a monster, he just did a poor job on the economics.

Economics Jobs Monsters

Coolidge believed that government officials who tell themselves that spending benefits the economy delude themselves and the citizens. Government budgets promote human freedom.

Benefits Citizens Government

The difference between recession and depression is simple. Recession, goes the saying, is when you lose your job; depression is when I lose mine.

Differences Jobs Simple

In the end, all new schools, public or private, snobby or not, add value to the education market, making it bigger and more efficient, in the same way that Zuckerberg added wealth to the economy even for non-Facebook fans.

School Way Zuckerberg

To investors, job creation is a second-order effect. Market participants care first about interest rates, exchange rates, bond prices and the one great factor that affects all three: the long-term solvency of a bond company called the U.S. government.

Government Jobs Order

Anything can be done if you find friends to do it with.

Done Ifs

We're in a kind of vicious cycle where the media tell the politicians, and the politicians tell the people, that perception is reality, and the perception of saving dooms a politician. I don't believe perception is reality, or that all Americans think that.

Believe Reality Thinking

Everybody should pay some tax, just as everybody should vote.

Pay Should Vote

People value Halloween, like Valentine's Day, because they can tell themselves that it's not merely secularized but actually secular, which is to say, not Christian, Jewish, Hindu or Muslim.

Christian Halloween Valentine

Our conscience, our faith, our local community, even our online hobby clubs - all civilize us.

Clubs Community Hobbies

The donning of the ear buds marks the beginning of teen life, when children set off on their own for the passage through adolescence.

Bud Children Ears

Disillusionment can come as fast as a gust, but building faith that the government won't inflate again is like building a new sailboat, a project of years.

Building Government Years

There's something unsettling about the education of a child who comfortably enumerates the rules for surviving zombie apocalypse but finds it uncomfortable to enumerate the rules of his grandparents' faith, if he knows them.

Children Grandparent Zombie

Coolidge cut the budget, and even better, cut it during peace and prosperity. He left a federal budget lower than the one that greeted him when he arrived in office. He managed to freeze or cut the budget over more than five years in office. If you look at charts of presidents - Nixon, Ike, and Reagan - you see them failing on this score.

Cutting Office Years