Category: Economics
When Your Competitors Write The Regulations...
March 25th, 2010Worth Investigating Further...
March 24th, 2010Bryan Caplan: How Many Employers Will Stop Providing Health Insurance?
In the individual market, you can now wait until you're really sick to buy insurance: "Heads I win, tails I break even." Firms won't have that gimme - and it seems more valuable t… more »
Fired For Not Cheating?
March 24th, 2010NY Times: Firing by St. John’s Further Cools Basketball Hotbed
Russell Smith, a coach with the New York Gauchos, an Amateur Athletic Union program, said Roberts and his staff had been “too laid-back” in their local recruiting efforts.
“You got to… more »
Prediction (continued)
March 24th, 2010The reality of ObamacareInsurance companies are now heavily regulated government contractors. Way to get big business out of Washington! They will clear a small, government-approved profit on top of their government-approved fees. Then, when healthca… more »
Wake Up Call
March 23rd, 2010WSJ Op-Eds 3/22:
Mary O'Grady: The War on Drugs Is Doomed
Andrew Biggs: Public Pension Deficits Are Worse Than You Think more »
The Big Picture
March 21st, 20103/05/2010: NYC and Las Vegas from above, at night
3/12/2010: On the Spot with Kim Jong-il more »
Borderline Insane
March 19th, 2010Democrats Want to Buy Now, Pay Later With Health Care?
But there is one thing of which I am nearly perfectly certain: If we pass this thing, no American politician, left or right, is going to cut any of these programs, or raise the broad-based taxes n… more »
Bracket Busting
March 19th, 2010The Sports Economist: Seeding The MadnessBecause the tournament is not reseeded at each round, a victorious #8 seed almost certainly earns the right to play a #1 seed... Among the striking results is that #12 seeds are twice as likely to make the swe… more »
Don't Get El Roberto Started On This
March 19th, 2010John Stossel: Bottled Water Hysteria more »
Defending Toyota, Again
March 18th, 2010If Relative Wealth is So Ethically Relevant, Then Toyota Should be Applauded
Bob Herbert frequently flaunts his Moral Superiority – his uncommon compassion for the downtrodden, his unflagging sensibility to the self-serving excuses of the greedy who p… more »
Maybe We're Not That Different After All
March 18th, 2010Mother Jones: Married for a Minute
In the Islamic Republic of Iran, sex outside of marriage is a crime, punishable by up to 100 lashes or, in the case of adultery, death by stoning. Yet the purpose of a temporary marriage is clear from its name in Ara… more »
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