Child labor and your chocolate

Just read this.

The richest person in your state

Forbes has compiled a list, and I slavishly clicked through to Connecticut’s big money person and it is: Ray Dalio, a hedge fund guy, worth an estimated $15.4 billion (with a b). (And Leftover? A guy named Dennis Washington is your state’s richest person. Know him?) We should probably add these people onto our prayer …

If something sounds too good to be true…

…then run — don’t walk — the other way. The recent Congressional budget agreement promises to do all kinds of magical things, but mostly? From Robert Greenstein, founder and president of the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, the agreement, if approved: would eviscerate substantial parts of the federal government — including parts that have …

Helaine Olen at Forbes…

…read this from the New York Times’ David Brooks, and fired back rather nicely don’t you think? Olen took special offense at Brooks’ notion that: Affluent, intelligent people are now more likely to marry other energetic, intelligent people. They raise energetic, intelligent kids in self-segregated, cultural ghettoes where they know little about and have less …