Opinions http://www.fwbusinesspress.com Opinions brought to you by Fort Worth Business Press Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:59:13 -0500 Opinions http://www.fwbusinesspress.com/images/fwbp_logo.jpg http://www.fwbusinesspress.com/index.php http://www.fwbusinesspress.com/display.php?id=11392 Health care reform movement offers great opportunity Health care reform obviously is a hot topic these days. I’m often asked to predict what the final version might look like, who will be affected and how much it will cost. A colleague recently brought out a Magic 8-Ball... http://www.fwbusinesspress.com/display.php?id=11392 Mon, 16 Nov 2009 01:00:00 -0500 http://www.fwbusinesspress.com/display.php?id=11395 Kennard delivers a gem-in-the-rough So new to the market that Amazon-dot-com hasn’t picked up on it at this writing, Guthrie Kennard’s CD-album Unmade Beds (NewTex Records) is a sustained exercise in the rough-hewn delicacy we used to take for... http://www.fwbusinesspress.com/display.php?id=11395 Mon, 16 Nov 2009 01:00:00 -0500 http://www.fwbusinesspress.com/display.php?id=11393 So Congress thinks it’s smarter than the free market? As an American, I am embarrassed that the U.S. House of Representatives has 220 members who actually believe the government can successfully centrally plan the medical and insurance industries. I'm embarrassed... http://www.fwbusinesspress.com/display.php?id=11393 Mon, 16 Nov 2009 01:00:00 -0500 http://www.fwbusinesspress.com/display.php?id=11391 How do you get to Times Square? Buy socks, jeans When I was a kid, I went to Times Square and looked up at the billboards. They were massive. Biggest signs I ever saw. “How do you get up there?” I asked my grandmother. “You have to be famous,” she... http://www.fwbusinesspress.com/display.php?id=11391 Mon, 16 Nov 2009 01:00:00 -0500 http://www.fwbusinesspress.com/display.php?id=11390 Texas energy industry continues to take it on the chin The economic condition within the Texas petroleum industry took another tumble in October, according to the Texas Petro Index that dropped below the 200 mark for the first time since December 2005. The October... http://www.fwbusinesspress.com/display.php?id=11390 Mon, 16 Nov 2009 01:00:00 -0500 http://www.fwbusinesspress.com/display.php?id=11389 Is there another economic bubble waiting to burst? When Nouriel Roubini talks, the world listens. Roubini is, of course, the once-obscure New York University economist whose dire warnings about a financial crisis proved depressingly prophetic. Last week, Roubini... http://www.fwbusinesspress.com/display.php?id=11389 Mon, 16 Nov 2009 01:00:00 -0500