Professor Timmy's Rants and Raves

Quinoa is a high protein grain from South America.  Here is my home made cooking  video  that shows how to use home grown tomatoes and basil to make a wonderful dish that supplements any lunch or dinner menu. I am not much in the kitchen, but this healthy dish is super simple and delish!

What is a debt ceiling? A simple enough question. The answer is that it is a self imposed recognition that American politicians typically put in place higher government expenditures than tax revenues can pay for. The ceiling is simply a decision to borrow money to cover the difference. Anyone student who has sat in one of my Macro classes has heard me gripe about our never ending deficit and the need reduce our interest payments on our Federal deficit. In fact, reducing the deficit in the long run is not only a smart idea intuitively, but one that economists overwhelmingly support. The reason why is that each year interest payments on our debt take dollars that could be spent on schools, roads, social programs or military spending and pays interest to bondholders instead. The taxpayer gets nothing for this. No bridges, no new police cars, no wheelchairs, subsidies for innovation, no predator drones…nothing. However, there is a time and a place for everything. There is a huge diff...

Of course, I have to use my Blog as part of my shameless self-promotion to announce that I have completed my book, Good Grades in No Time . Yep, this is a book that cuts through the fluff and provides quick easy solutions for the common problems most college students face.  In fact,    I would like to give you the top 10 reasons you should consider buying this or pushing a friend to buy it on Kindle. 1. This book only costs 8 bucks compared to the others cost three times more. 2. I need the money more that the big book publishers. Their editorial staff fills up an entire office building whereas my editor carries a laptop and hangs out at a coffee shop. 3. At some point in college you will have to take a test and this book guides you to do better no matter what the subject is. 4. This book gives you tips on how to do well in online classes, the others don’t. 5. Secrets, secrets, secrets. The perspective is to give students an inside look at why instructo...