CO2 and Tornadoes

"Well, you now have a simple algorithm for sorting flakes and politicized hacks from honest scientists — anyone who is going around this week saying that the tornadoes in Alabama this week were due to manmade CO2 sit firmly in the former category."


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America's Reckless Money-Printing

"Last week, Ben Bernanke suggested that the US base interest rate will stay close to zero for an 'extended period'. It's been there since December 2008."

America's reckless money-printing could put the world back into crisis - Telegraph

The War on Walmart

Who's afraid of cheap groceries?

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Green Jobs Don’t Come Cheaply

"Frédéric Bastiat, where are you when we need you? The acerbic 19th century French economist, who pointed out the absurdity of breaking windows for the sake of keeping glaziers in business, would have a word or two to say about the notion of “green jobs”, and they would not be kind ones."

THE FT LEX COLUMN – Green jobs don’t come cheaply | iPolitics

Bernanke's Inflation Paradox

"We too want faster economic growth, but the keys to that are fiscal and other reforms that would reverse the policies of the last four years. Much lower spending and tax reform, freer trade, fewer new regulations, an end to foreclosure mitigation and banker harassment, and repealing ObamaCare's job-killing taxes and mandates, among others."

Review & Outlook: Bernanke's Inflation Paradox - WSJ.com

China As No. 1? Give Us A Break

"The old saying among economists is that you have to get rich before you get old. China's losing that race."

China As No. 1? Give Us A Break - Investors.com

Why Tax the Rich is Wrong

"But when a government that has overspent for years turns to tax increases instead of spending cuts simply for the sake of 'fairness,'it weakens free enterprise, lowers opportunity and impoverishes us in many ways."

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Even Children Understand Inflation...

Sleepwalking Towards Disaster

"There is now, according to S&P, 'at least a one in three chance' that American debt will be downgraded from its top-notch status over the next two years – which would be a first in modern times."

America appears to be sleepwalking towards disaster – does no one care? - Telegraph

Archbishop Calls for Law Requiring Service

"What his suggestion reveals, however, is a far more worrying trend: that of the state being the first port of call for any perceived problem."

Will no one rid me of this turbulent priest?

Fast Train to Nowhere

From the NY Times, a brief but illuminating history of railroads and "hothouse capitalism,” where government takes the risk and private investors take the profit.

Fast Train to Nowhere - NYTimes.com

You Can't Make This Up

"Jesse Jackson, Jr. recently claimed that the iPad is 'eliminating thousands of American jobs.'"

Is Steve Jobs Killing Jobs? - Art Carden - The Economic Imagination - Forbes

Top 8 Tax Protest Songs of All Time

"Love may have inspired more songs than any other subject, but the subject of taxes inspires tax songs that are just as heartfelt. Singers and songwriters seem to be just like the rest of us – you work hard, you do the best you can, and pow! The better you do, the deeper the IRS digs into your pocket."

Top 8 tax protest songs of all time | IHateTheMedia.com

The Road to Prosperity

"...eliminating the job of a single regulator grows the American economy by $6.2 million and nearly 100 private sector jobs annually."


The Road to Prosperity isn’t Paved with Good Intentions | The ChamberPost

Deceitful and Dull

"Most successful people achieved success with little or nothing from the federal government beyond the national defense and other things the federal government provides to all people. Second, most wealthy people have done things for America by inventing things, creating jobs, providing investment capital, etc. They become wealthy by doing things that benefit millions of people."

Today’s Obama Speech: Nearly as deceitful as it was dull

Nudge Theory

"Most of us think that it is quite right to constrain and channel the choices of children – that is how children learn behaviour that is beneficial to themselves and their fellow creatures. But I'm not sure what right a self-interested government has to treat us just as if we were children"

Nudge theory and personal liberty

The Real Ayn Rand

"Rand was not a conservative or a liberal: She was an individualist. 'Atlas Shrugged' is, at its heart, a plea for the most fundamental American ideal—the inalienable rights of the individual. On tax day, with our tax dollars going to big government and subsidies for big business, let's remember it's the celebration of individualism that has kept 'Atlas Shrugged' among the best-selling novels of all time."

Donald L. Luskin: Remembering the Real Ayn Rand - WSJ.com

The Nanny State Can’t Last

"Last week, Congress and the administration refused to seriously consider the problem of government spending. Despite the fear-mongering, a government shutdown would not have been as bad as claimed."

» The Nanny State Can’t Last Alex Jones' Infowars: There's a war on for your mind!

Subsidy-Absorbing Institutions of Higher Education

"The growth in student subsidies over the past 30 plus years has certainly increased student’s ability to pay for college, but there is a growing body of research suggesting that the subsidies have done little to make college more affordable."

Subsidy-Absorbing Institutions of Higher Education - CCAP - Higher Education and the Economy - Forbes

James Gleick Interview

"Information has never been so cheap; our choices have never been so numerous; the cacophony has never been quite so grand. Everyone knows this, and everyone is right. It's why we're fascinated, if not obsessed, with Google and Twitter and all the rest of their oddly named species. We know that information poses as many challenges as opportunities."

James Gleick: 'Information poses as many challenges as opportunities' | Technology | The Observer