First Impression of the Progress of the $700b Bailout
There’s something missing here, but I can’t quite put my finger on it.
Author: Will Cox
Preparing Our Children for Obedience
The elementary school requires the children to enter a personal identification number before they purchase lunch — even if they are paying cash. I feel a ...
The Disarming Power of Words
We TiVo’d the last debate, and watched it again just now. Others have summarized it much more pithily, or eviscerated the candidates with more gusto, but ...
Bedfellows
Politics makes for strange bedfellows, they say, and the Republican primary in New York’s 99th assembly district is a case in point. The incumbent, Greg B...
Double Jeopardy and Guilt by Association
Were criminal charges brought against William Ayers? Was he found guilty? Did he serve his time? If not, why not? Meanwhile, apparently living in the same neigh...
On Affordable Housing
Housing is affordable if the price is low enough for one to afford it. How does inflating the prices through increasing leverage make them more affordable?
Four Years Too Many of College
Is a four-year college degree excessive for most? Charles Murray, writing at Cato Unbound, thinks a bachelor’s degree is unnecessary for most professions,...
Two Parties to Every Sale
I would like to point out to the audience watching the roller coaster on Wall Street that for every seller, there is a buyer.
Backed by the Full Faith and Credit of the United States
The key word there is faith.
But We Have to do Something!
There is a propensity for politicians, and in truth all of us, to act hastily when the times call rather for patience and calm. Sen. Charles Schumer (D-NY), in ...
Proverbs 15:27
The Big Brother and I were watching Madame Blueberry yesterday, and the moral of the story is, The greedy man troubles his own house.
Chicken Little
The sky is falling! The sky is falling! Or, what goes up, must come down. Oh, look! It went back up again!
Perceptions
The newspaper says there’s a problem, but is there really? via Tom Palmer, David Cay Johnston wonders the same thing. In a letter to his fellow journalist...
Woody Woodpecker
There’s a woodpecker knocking on my house.
Angling for Satisfaction
The excerpts from, and an interview with the author of, Angler: The Cheney Vice Presidency are disturbing, and reinforce what we already suspected. In what I ho...
Depression
(some observations, which I’ll hopefully clean up and form into a coherent post) Some say the financial crisis is a market failure, fixable by regulation;...
When Pigs Fly
I tend to agree with Greg Mankiw — more generally with Arthur Pigou — on his recommendation to increase certain taxes in order to cover the external...
Greetings, Sports Fans!
Watching the Presidential caucus race is, for me at least, akin to watching baseball. It helps to look at it as a team sport, with a rivalry as deep-seated as t...
Navel Gazing
For one of her classes last year, D. wrote a paper which analyzes an effect of the self-absorption of the media, in response to one of the unfounded assertions ...
The Circus Subsidy
Ancient Rome gave away bread. We give away television. % of television-watching population which receives their television signal over-the-air, and will be affe...