Sun, 30 Mar 2003
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- Sun Mar 30 13:40:10 2003 When you buy me, you buy my mistakes: If you're paying me to do something, and I make a mistake, you pay for my mistake.
- Mon Mar 31 00:18:22 2003 Tax exempt bonds: Why should government favor one business over another?
- Mon Apr 7 23:41:50 2003 Medical Insurance: What we so often call health insurance is nothing like it.
- Fri Apr 11 18:18:38 2003 BOCES -- A Bad Idea: BOCES - Board Of Cooperative Educational Services - is a bad idea.
- Sat Apr 19 23:09:15 2003 Air Pollution is bad, and it isn't.: Air pollution is bad only when the people polluted upon are not compensated.
- Wed Apr 23 00:51:14 2003 After Email Dies: The current email system will not survive.
- Sun Apr 27 00:28:15 2003 What if school were like a really bad job?: What if school were like a really bad job?
- Fri May 2 00:48:47 2003 Vouchers drain money: Well, of course vouchers drain money from public schools.
- Tue May 6 19:47:41 2003 I'm not defending vouchers, no way: Vouchers are only good because they suck less than the current system.
- Fri May 9 02:19:16 2003 Going Loco: If we understand anything about economics, it is comparative advantage.
- Mon May 12 23:38:27 2003 Creating Jobs by Firing Workers: In the long term, you create jobs by firing workers.
- Tue May 13 00:09:21 2003 The cost of fiber optic cable: fiber optic cable is a lot like a railroad.
- Fri May 23 14:59:13 2003 Taxes spent badly are wasted: Some people think that taking money from rich people and spending it will make society better off.
- Mon May 26 09:50:47 2003 Make Sense, Christopher!: Christopher Lansdown postulates a government with a magic wand.
- Mon Jun 2 00:47:03 2003 The Impossibility of Economic Calculation: Government cannot make good decisions because it cannot calculate the value of things.
- Tue Jun 3 14:09:16 2003 Government licensure is counter-market: When the government licenses occupations, it creates a barrier to competition.
- Sun Jun 8 23:18:08 2003 Media Concentration: consolidation in commodity markets.
- Wed Jun 11 23:44:03 2003 Immigration, just because: We should allow unrestricted immigration because it's right, not because it's good for us.
- Tue Jul 15 00:55:46 2003 Where is the Freedom?: More than anything else, a lack of freedom is the cause of injustice.
- Tue Jul 15 01:30:49 2003 Space Exploration: No comment.
- Fri Jul 25 15:08:11 2003 Robotic Nation?: Robots create employment, they don't destroy it.
- Fri Jul 25 15:12:38 2003 The 1998 ice storm: Price gouging using the 1998 ice storm as an example.
- Sun Jul 27 23:42:30 2003 Government "investments": It's almost impossible for a government to invest money when all is counted.
- Wed Jul 30 23:52:23 2003 Why is he angry?: An economist is not happy with the general level of economic education, and its resultant effects on public policy.
- Thu Jul 31 17:15:12 2003 Thanks to USS Clueless: blogrolled!
- Mon Aug 4 22:24:50 2003 What makes an economist?: An economist is not happy with the general level of economic education, and its resultant effects on public policy.
- Wed Aug 20 23:41:53 2003 Fair Trade: Is Fair Trade Fair?
- Wed Aug 27 01:13:55 2003 The Space Shuttle: We are buying too much safety on our space missions.
- Tue Sep 9 10:37:30 2003 The Non-problem of Public Goods: The provisioning of public goods is not the problem people think it is.
- Thu Sep 25 01:24:08 2003 The WTO in Cancun: Nobody ever wanted a free market.
- Thu Sep 25 01:24:08 2003 The WTO in Cancun: Nobody ever wanted a free market.
- Sun Sep 28 15:53:27 2003 The Sooner Subsidies Go, the Better: Subsidies are actively harmful to all but the politically powerful.
- Mon Sep 29 17:44:00 2003 Trust: Trust is essential to reasonable transaction costs.
- Mon Oct 6 13:27:13 2003 TragiComedy: Tragedies and Commons, both
- Sat Oct 11 01:40:30 2003 Tax cuts for the wealthy: What do you think the wealthy do with their money? Eat it?
- Sun Oct 12 01:39:52 2003 Anti ad-hominem: Avoid ad-hominem argumentation.
- Thu Oct 16 00:57:56 2003 The War on Drugs: Any economist will decry the war on drugs.
- Tue Nov 4 18:01:35 2003 A Moral Obligation: The obligation is to the customer.
- Wed Nov 5 02:39:37 2003 Overpopulation: There is no such thing as overpopulation.
- Sun Nov 9 13:50:44 2003 Monopoly, Competition, and Antitrust: Antitrust is a waste of time.
- Sun Nov 16 00:53:07 2003 Banning Cell Phones: Banning one thing or another things that distracts drivers is an anti-economic idea.
- Wed Nov 19 09:19:39 2003 Anti-capitalist Activists: No comment necessary.
- Fri Nov 21 02:52:05 2003 Risk Overflow: Risk is hard to understand.
- Sun Dec 7 00:54:52 2003 Bleeding Heart Libertarianism: We need to go beyond the flat tax, and into the negative tax
- Sat Dec 20 01:02:34 2003 Money: What is money?
- Sun Dec 21 00:57:52 2003 Safety and Profits: Safety is not everything.
- Wed Jan 7 12:20:04 2004 Offshoring: Offshoring is no worse than onshoring.
- Wed Jan 7 23:30:20 2004 Import/Export: confusion over the value of imports vs the exports that pay for them.
- Sun Jan 11 22:32:38 2004 Unions vs. Prosperity: Unions don't bring general prosperity. They bring inefficiency.
- Thu Jan 29 08:39:07 2004 Sustainable foo: Sustainable is a religion term.
- Tue Feb 3 15:03:23 2004 The Churn: it would be a mistake to stop job deletion for that would also stop job creation.
- Thu Feb 5 15:41:35 2004 External Benefits: The existance of external benefits does not justify taxation.
- Wed Feb 25 10:56:27 2004 Infinite Resources: Physically finite resources can have infinite value.
- Sun Feb 29 15:39:30 2004 We Owe it to Ourselves: Debt is owed, and payments are gone. Doesn't matter who they're to.
- Fri Mar 12 17:44:58 2004 Wheels to Work: Should we give cars to poor people so they can work?
- Fri Mar 12 17:45:13 2004 Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome: What is the economic damage to a society of an epidemic?
- Fri Mar 12 17:45:17 2004 A patent is a monopoly.: Are monopolies on implementing your own thoughts justifiable?
- Fri Mar 12 17:45:29 2004 U.S. Airlines: From Bad to Nationalized?: Should airlines be nationalized to keep them flying?
- Fri Mar 12 17:45:36 2004 Are Lemon Laws useful?: Should we protect buyers of expensive items against shoddy merchandise?
- Fri Mar 12 17:45:41 2004 Household Robots: Why do we have household robots instead of servants?
- Fri Mar 12 21:36:56 2004 Gregory Mankiw, II: Why do people trade between countries and economic systems?
- Fri Mar 12 21:36:58 2004 Gregory Mankiw, III: unemployment is what you make of it.
- Fri Mar 12 21:37:01 2004 Freedom of Trade: The freedom to trade is a basic human right.
- Fri Mar 12 21:37:07 2004 Bad Economist, No Donut: Even economists don't understand economics.
- Sat Mar 13 10:50:56 2004 You're On Welfare: If you have your job because your job is protected by the government, you're on welfare.
- Sat Mar 13 23:33:50 2004 Free Software: Free software is not a valueless good.
- Sun Mar 21 23:09:15 2004 Gross Domestic Product: The GDP is a measure of the size of an economy.
- Mon Apr 5 23:57:16 2004 The Price of Gasoline: Why does gasoline cost what it does?
- Sat Apr 10 22:16:05 2004 In-Lieu-of-Blogroll: Too lazy to make up a blogroll.
- Thu Apr 15 01:41:53 2004 Enemies of America: Depending on how much you want to emphasize it, those who oppose trade are our enemies.
- Thu Apr 15 17:43:21 2004 Reason and Action: A study of reasons and actions.
- Sat Apr 17 12:29:28 2004 Interest: Interest was not invented by capitalists to oppress everyone.
- Sat Apr 24 23:43:51 2004 The Price of Gasoline 2: Why does gasoline cost what it does?
- Sat Apr 24 23:54:33 2004 Inflation, causes and results: Inflation is everywhere and always a monetary effect. --M. Friedman
- Mon Apr 26 20:00:55 2004 A Quaker Response To Economic Globalization: Sigh. I wish my co-religionists knew a little more than nothing about economics.
- Wed May 5 11:33:34 2004 Better Health Care: Any campaign for a better foo is a political campaign.
- Wed May 5 20:38:07 2004 Greed and Envy: Is it economics if rich people are greedy and poor people are envious?
- Tue May 18 16:06:36 2004 Speculators in the oil futures market: Speculation is good.
- Wed May 19 17:29:02 2004 Stupid AP Inflation Headline: Inflation is not the same as a general rise in prices.
- Mon May 24 09:41:58 2004 Trade Deficits: The idea of a trade deficit is doo-doo.
- Mon May 24 09:45:01 2004 Unemployment: Unemployment is a problem, particularly when it's yours.
- Mon May 24 09:51:43 2004 The Unions are for the Unions: The purpose of a union is to advocate for the union, not for society at large.
- Mon May 24 10:06:56 2004 Underpopulation: The world is clearly underpopulated.
- Mon May 24 23:52:38 2004 Minimum Wages: The minimum wage must go.
- Tue May 25 01:43:26 2004 A Living Wage: How can a substantial increase in the minimum wage NOT increase unemployment?
- Mon May 31 23:21:55 2004 The Labor Theory of Value: How many times must the labor theory of value be ground into the ground before it refuses to get up again?
- Tue Jun 1 02:19:59 2004 Statutory Minimum Gas Prices: Competition good. Price-fixing bad.
- Thu Jun 3 23:00:05 2004 Dividends: Dividends keep a company honest.
- Sun Jun 13 01:07:09 2004 How do you determine if Lemon Laws are useful?: How do we know if we should protect buyers of expensive items against shoddy merchandise?
- Thu Jun 17 01:26:39 2004 Inflation 2: Inflation is a description of an decrease in the price of money; nothing else.
- Sun Jun 27 14:31:10 2004 Protectionism: Should an industry be protected against foreign competition?
- Sun Jun 27 15:14:12 2004 Law without government: Law exists separately from government.
- Tue Jun 29 01:16:08 2004 India, Inc.: India is getting there.
- Thu Jul 1 00:41:59 2004 The minimum-wage debate: WWJP: Economists describe the results of actions; people choose whether to take those actions or not.
- Mon Jul 12 02:58:40 2004 The Minimum Wage really does destroy jobs: The data is lousy given the increases in the minimum wage.
- Wed Jul 14 02:51:49 2004 The Magic Wand of Government: Government doesn't have a magic wand.
- Thu Jul 22 10:11:32 2004 Universal Disservice: Universal service is, like all subsidies, bad for everybody in principle, and the non-subsidized in specific.
- Tue Jul 27 00:06:17 2004 Hillary has a zero EIQ: Hillary Clinton gets a zero for her economics intelligence quotient.
- Thu Aug 5 03:06:25 2004 Airport Insecurity: You cannot do all possible things.
- Sun Aug 15 12:06:00 2004 The Environment is a meaningless term: "The environment" really only refers to your own property.
- Sun Aug 15 12:13:48 2004 The Cost of a Man: How much do people value their own lives?
- Sun Aug 15 12:23:03 2004 Too Many Laws: Too many laws are a cause of the corruption of the executive branch.
- Sun Aug 15 12:37:13 2004 Price, Cost, and Marginal Value: In a free market, over time, the price of something will equal its cost which will equal its marginal value.
- Sun Aug 15 12:41:26 2004 Cream skimming is to be expected: Cream-skimming is a natural process of a free market, and to be expected.
- Thu Aug 19 14:34:00 2004 Profit 2: Profit is not evil by itself.
- Thu Aug 19 14:34:36 2004 Profit: Profit is not evil by itself.
- Fri Aug 20 22:57:29 2004 Gregory Mankiw: Trade is good.
- Sun Aug 22 01:18:52 2004 Value and Transactions: Leaning heavily on Von Mises. Thanks, Ludwig!
- Mon Aug 23 11:40:29 2004 The Minimum Wage 2: No, really REALLY.
- Thu Aug 26 09:07:49 2004 The Minimum Wage 3: These guys just don't get it about the minimum wage, do they?
- Mon Sep 6 17:25:15 2004 Is Bush Republican?: Given the policies he has promulgated, it's hard to say that Bush is a Republican.
- Mon May 2 09:45:29 2005 Can we stop using the title 'Czar'?: Czar is a title for a position of absolute power which does not exist in American government
- Tue May 10 09:20:58 2005 The Rich Should Get Richer: they've done a good job so far; why not let them continue
- Sun May 29 20:33:38 2005 Don't low-paid workers deserve a decent place in our society?: Nobody deserves to have their job destroyed.
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