: About Me

Educationally: Master's Degree in Economics from Western Michigan University. Bachelor's Degree in Economics, minor in Philosophy; Western Michigan University.

Career background: 18 years as Economics instructor at Davenport University; 7 years in banking in commercial loans and branch management; 6 years in manufacturing in Human Resources and Purchasing.

Interests: reading, writing, photography, theater, movies, sports, computers, children's literature, politics, art, restaurants, music, sexuality, fitness, astrology, science.

Writing credits: published children's novel, "Subtuberania", 2007, 167 pages; blogging site: Edison's Light Bulb (http://edisonslightbulb.blogspot.com); feature articles, pop culture articles, book reviews, money and the Federal Reserve series, theater/movie reviews, restaurant review.

My passion is ...

Writing; fiction, articles, opinion, special interest, humor.

I know too much about ...

Economics and politics; an unending quest to understand.

My parents always told me ...

That I am a dreamer; I love to be creative and enjoy the arts.

My childhood ambition ...

To be a lawyer like my father.

My favorite memory ...

As quarterback, winning several big football games in high school.

Why I write ...

To communicate ideas so that others understand them.

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

reading classic literature, watching excellent movies, listening to jazz, blues and rock 'n roll.

My first job ...

Human resources; Safety Director and labor relations assistant.

My best moment ...

Winning a writing award in high school and in a national banking writing contest.

My inspiration ...

To create writing that others admire.

Politics, News & Issues > Political & Economic Theory Should the United States abandon the Federal Reserve?

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The Federal Reserve gives us the freedom to buy things now, that we would otherwise have to wait for. In looking at the Federal Reserve, it is important to note that this is a money system, not just a group of men sitting in a conference room controlling everything having to do with the US dollar. The Fed is a system just like the government of the US is a system. What that means is that no one controls it, and that it is much bigger than any one person or group of people could ever control. They can guide it, influence it, even do immense damage with it, but it is just too large a system ...

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