The Only Fair Choice: Support FREE Trade
Tuesday, June 8th, 2010 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »Some of the conclusions from the article UNFAIR TRADE, by the Adam Smith Institute: 1. The Fairtrade certification system and the Fair Trade movement from which it springs are fundamentally unfair. They offer a small improvement in prices to very few ...
Whining Has Been a National Pastime for 200 Years
Tuesday, June 8th, 2010 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »Adam Smith was a remarkably insightful guy. He not only figured out how expanding trade allows the division of labor, thereby creating wealth and raising living standards, he also realized how hard it is to get people to believe ...
Why Do Bloggers Blog For Free?
Monday, June 7th, 2010 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »George Mason economist, blogger, and author ("Discover Your Inner Economist") Tyler Cowen explains why (BTW: Tyler was on my Ph.D. dissertation committe at GMU) in an interview with UPenn's Wharton: Knowlege@Wharton: You are a writer and co-founder of the popular ...
The World According to Newspapers
Sunday, May 30th, 2010 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »The UK's Online Journalism Blog features maps that show the world in 2007 through the eyes of editors-in-chief. The larger (smaller) the country on the maps, the more (less) media attention. See the world according to London's The Sun ...
Google Government
Sunday, May 30th, 2010 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »FOXNEWS -- Presidential candidates Sen. Barack Obama, Rep. Ron Paul, Sen. Sam Brownback, Sen. Mike Gravel, Rep. Dennis Kucinch and Mr. John Cox have all embraced the concept of "Google government" by signing the Oath of Presidential Transparency — ...
Outsourcing Destroys Jobs? 10m U.S. Jobs in 6 Yrs.
Saturday, May 29th, 2010 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »From yesterday's IBD editorial "Outsourcing Myths": The media love victims. So when industries began moving jobs once done here to low-cost labor havens like India and China, pundits and reporters portrayed it as a devastating blow to America's traditional working class. In ...
P.J. O’Rourke on Comedy Central
Saturday, May 22nd, 2010 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »Political satirist P.J. O'Rourke says that the free market exists in the eyes of philosopher Adam Smith in order to decentralize our badness.
Thomas Sowell on The Politics of Bridges
Tuesday, May 18th, 2010 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »The real problem is that the political incentives are to spend the taxpayers' money on things that will enhance politicians' chances of getting re-elected. There may be enough money available to maintain bridges and other infrastructure but that same money can ...
A Policy Unblemished By Success: Price Controls
Monday, May 17th, 2010 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »Quotes of the Day: 1. With the command-and-control propensity of contemporary liberalism, Clinton predictably advocates a policy that has a record, running from Roman times to the present, that is unblemished by success. It is the policy of price controls: Her ...
