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“Picking Winners” by Making the Rest of Us Losers
Below are two letters that I sent yesterday to the Wall Street Journal.  Both are in response to this essay whose author argues that America needs an “industrial policy.”  (This essay has many flaws beyond those that I highlight in my l ... [read more]
Speaking Words of Wisdom
My friend and former colleague (from my time at Clemson University) Bruce Yandle has two new essays very much worth reading. “Lost Trust: The Real Cause of the Financial Meltdown” & “Producing Jobs: Thoughts on Obama’s Plan for Small ... [read more]
The Silence of The Grave
Quieted but still alive: Stephen Harper has managed to silence one of the most vocal and activist groups battling against his plan to give prairie farmers the right to opt out of selling their wheat and barley through the wheat... [read more]
Links for 2010-02-08 [del.icio.us]
Mid-Atlantic digs out of snow; government shut - Yahoo! News [read more]
Who Speaks for ‘The People’?
EconLog’s Arnold Kling asks a question that would fuel befuddled, and perhaps even angry, stares at the typical Manhattan or Beverly Hills cocktail party — but it’s a great question that, in fact, is not rhetorical: Is it really the ca ... [read more]
An Empirical Study of the Effects of Proposition 13
Below is the abstract of a paper that looks very interesting.  Its title is “Proposition 13 and The California Fiscal Shell Game“; its authors are Colin McCubbins and Mathew McCubbins: We study the effects of California’s Tax and Expen ... [read more]
Fear the Boom and Bust with Italian subtitles
Wisdom from Jay Cost
Here. An excerpt: He has been narrow, not broad. He has been partial, not post-partisan. He has been ideological, not pragmatic. No number of “eloquent” speeches can alter these facts. This is why his major initiatives have failed, why ... [read more]
Fear the Boom and Bust with French Subtitles
Here: [read more]
My talk on trade
For the last year or so I’ve been thinking about trade in a new way, a mix of Smith and Ricardo, an idea I first heard from Jim Buchanan and enhanced by conversations with Don Boudreaux and Mike Munger. In this week’s EconTalk, I lay ou ... [read more]
OK, If You Say So
<div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>Michael Taube says that&nbsp;Rocco Rossi is the man to save Toronto. Even if he is a <a href="http://www.thestar.com/opinion/article/760218--this-tory-is-backing-a-liberal">Liberal</a>:</p> [read more]
"totalitarian tide of intrusive state control"
First they came for the Catholics: Last night’s defeat by the House of Lords of the aggressively anti-Christian provisions in Harriet Harman’s Equality Bill should not be allowed to gloss over the malevolent intent of the House of Commo ... [read more]
Links for 2010-02-07 [del.icio.us]
Something Has To Be Illegal In Nevada [read more]
"To the ashcan — go!"
There are moments when, very quietly but persistently, the little voice in my brain says: "Please, someone save Objectivism from the Objectivists." I've heard it often enough. Way back when I was a teenager progressing through Rand's fo ... [read more]
Visiting the Bush estate
Did a little sight-seeing in Maine recently and paid a visit to the Bush family's Kennebunkport retreat. [read more]
George Will on Paul Ryan’s Plan
Here’s the best line that I’ve read in a long, long time: Today’s tax system was shaped by sadists who were trying to be nice. It’s penned by George Will, and appears in his column in today’s Washington Post.  The entire column is wor ... [read more]
What Do You Consider Speech?
Can the government ban pornography? [read more]
Interview with Tom Palmer
Today’s Washington Examiner has this short but wonderful interview with my dear friend Tom Palmer.  Here’s the final question and answer: At your core, what is one of your defining beliefs? I believe that the individual human life mat ... [read more]
German lyrics of Fear the Boom and Bust
Below the fold. TY to Alois Lang. I encourage you to create a subtitled version. FEAR THE BOOM AND BUST by John Papola+Russ Roberts We’ve been going back and forth for a century [Keynes] I want to steer markets, [Hayek] I want them ... [read more]
GEAUX SAINTS!
Super Bowl SundayI thought ...
Super Bowl SundayI thought of doing a long analysis, but the Super Bowl game goes beyond analysis. If you want analysis, check out Cold Hard Football Facts and Football Outsiders, both of which are very, very good. Less good, but still ... [read more]
Links for 2010-02-06 [del.icio.us]
Naples pizza makers celebrate EU trademark status [read more]
Back to the beginning
There was a stop-the-press item in science news this week. I was sorry to see it float by without serious media attention. We are finally out of the “Primordial Soup!” Let me explain. [read more]
cnews.ca poll on the you’ve got to be kidding party, sort of:  “NDP is irrelevant”
CORRECT! [read more]
Stifling free speech is not really free
Free speech is not merely an ornamental bauble found in liberal democratic societies. It is the well-fought ground upon which the structures of such societies have been constructed. [read more]
She Chose
Thanks to Andrew Garland for this link, which provides details about Melanie Shouse, the St. Louis woman who once worked for the Obama campaign and who died last week of breast cancer. Contrary to the implication that I drew in my prev ... [read more]
Perhaps He Gave Her a Free T-Shirt
Here’s a letter that I sent to the New York Times: You open your report on the President’s continued push for health-care reform with the following account: “For a moment, President Obama’s pledge to keep fighting for major health care ... [read more]
Defending the NetNewmark's ...
Defending the NetNewmark's Door's Craig Newmark on the internet:Hard on the heels of Food Nazis, who complain about what we eat and how much we eat, we'll soon see Net Nazis, who complain about how the Net is making life so much worse . ... [read more]
'Moderate' TurkeyBrigitte ...
'Moderate' TurkeyBrigitte Pellerin says that "a country that has as many as 200 'honour' killings, and where a teenage girl can be buried alive for having male friends, is anything but." Of course, moderate is a relative term, so it is ... [read more]
Illiberal “Liberals”
University of Virginia politics professor Gerard Alexander makes the case – in tomorrow’s Outlook section of the Washington Post — that so-called “liberals” are generally more condescending than are conservatives. [read more]