by Michael Leppert | Dec 5, 2024 | Politics/Government, Pop/Life
Fans of the movie, “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off,” will remember the scene. Ben Stein plays a famously boring high school teacher giving a lecture about economics to a room full of teenagers fighting to stay awake. In about a minute, he covers the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act...
by Michael Leppert | Mar 9, 2018 | Politics/Government, Pop/Life
I promise some dramatic shoot ’em up antics in my column this week. Provocative devastation and bigger than life consequences are what we need to offset the nerdy economic discussion of the impact of tariffs. Think about the Omaha Beach scene of the movie,...
