Thoughts Along The Way - The Durango Herald

To every thing, a season?

There are things in this world that best ought not be hurried. Many of them lie within the purview of women – birth, the rising of bread, a holy death among them. Of course, any o...

DATE: Aug 15, 2017 | CATEGORY: Thoughts Along The Way

We live by story, choose how we live

Not every religion has a sacred text. Among those that do, I’ve been pondering what their role might be in our 21st century world – a world of pluralism, science and technology and rapid glo...

DATE: Jul 11, 2017 | CATEGORY: Thoughts Along The Way

Whatever will be, will be?

There is a question that has been trying to form in my mind of late. I say “trying” because depending on the context in which the question is applied, it takes on various nuances and permuta...

DATE: Jul 6, 2017 | CATEGORY: Thoughts Along The Way

Letting go of fear and living in Love

For those of us in churches that follow a liturgical calendar, the celebration of Holy Week is here. It began with Palm Sunday, the day Christians remember Jesus’ entry into Jerusalem at Pas...

DATE: Apr 14, 2017 | CATEGORY: Thoughts Along The Way

Dollar’s rise should help consumers

There’s a lot going on at home and in the world these days. But the rising value of the dollar sticks out for economists. Yes, there’s news like U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz’s announcement ...

DATE: Oct 30, 2016 | CATEGORY: Thoughts Along The Way

Weather alters your day and your economy

Waking up Monday morning filled me with a sense of both dread and joy. Dread that I, like many others in the area, would be spending the next four hours shoveling tons of snow fro...

DATE: Feb 24, 2015 | CATEGORY: Thoughts Along The Way

A vintage economy is like a vintage wine

A mixture of weather patterns and the micro-climate in which a grape grows affects the vintage of any given grape. For example, Shiraz likes it dry and sunny, while sauvignon blanc prefers w...

DATE: Dec 30, 2014 | CATEGORY: Thoughts Along The Way

Political fliers don’t make good econ textbooks

In about a month’s time, less than half of eligible voters will be exercising their right and heading to polls to make their electoral choices. Most of those voters have already m...

DATE: Oct 7, 2014 | CATEGORY: Thoughts Along The Way

Data looking good if you believe the numbers

Well, relatively good news about the U.S. economy has been hitting the press this year. Despite recent job-creation numbers below what many expected, which I suspect is a glitch, ...

DATE: Sep 8, 2014 | CATEGORY: Thoughts Along The Way

Education pays, but that may be changing

That education is strongly associated with economic growth and higher income over one’s lifetime is nothing new. A bachelor’s degree is, on average, worth about $830,000 more than a high sch...

DATE: Aug 12, 2014 | CATEGORY: Thoughts Along The Way

Financial crisis contained – at least so far

The “official” dates of the U.S. financial crisis were 2007-08. Since then, we’ve had a few additional crises, in particular, the Euro crisis. But overall, the global financial crisis seems ...

DATE: May 19, 2014 | CATEGORY: Thoughts Along The Way

Bailing banks out: We don’t like it, but we do it

The first “recorded” financial crisis in the U.S. occurred in 1792. That’s just five years after the Constitution was adopted. Seems the crisis happened when Alexander Hamilton decided to es...

DATE: Apr 21, 2014 | CATEGORY: Thoughts Along The Way