June 18, 2001
With the possible exception of Charles Darwin, matters of evolution generally take a back seat on the news bus to matters of revolution. So it has been with the 23 bills affecting the insurance industry that struggled through the 77th …
June 4, 2001
All the recent talk about the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act got me to thinking about privacy and particularly privacy on the Internet. That led me to The Devil’s Ropeāthe invention of Joseph Glidden, the Father of Barbed Wire. As we know, his …
May 14, 2001
Only few would disagree that we are on the threshold of an economic revolution of some kind. No one knows just what it is yet because it is all around us and we have no high point from which we …
April 30, 2001
Naysayers and the prophets of doom and gloom aside, the powerful economy of the Lone Star State is not likely to fade anytime soon. In fact, just the opposite is more probable. And that is clearly good news for the …