PigTown main Street

Route 66 first entered the general public conscience in 1939 when California writer John Steinbeck published his novel “The Grapes of Wrath”, detailing the westward migration of Oklahoma’s Dust Bowl farmers to California’s San Joaquin Valley. During the story, he refers to Route 66 as the “Mother Road”, a nickname it still has today. When Steinbeck won the Pulitzer Prize for his novel, the road became even more famous.

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Please don’t be fooled by the Wall Street analysts (who are after nothing but money and do not care what happens to you and I) and bad management of the Government.

Although what happens in the Main Street directly affects Wall Street, but the other way around is not as influential.  Let’s see why.

Wall Street:  It is a place where a group of rich people (buy and sell stocks, hedge, or … l

A funny thing happened on the way to writing this column. Ferris Bueller’s economics teacher beat me to deadline.

Even scarier, I agree with Ben Stein’s position in his New York Times piece August 8. Chicken Little got it wrong. The sky isn’t falling. And healthy financial adjustments are being made from Wall Street to Main Street.

But let me take Stein’s premise one step further.

While