Mandatory Calorie Posting Doesn’t Work
Another government program shown to be stupid.
IP as a Joke: South Butt Edition
Jimmy Winkelmann, a freshman here at the University of Missouri, established The South Butt clothing company, poking fun at today’s logo-obsessed youth. The result? You guessed it: a cease-and-desist letter from The North Face, accusing Winkelmann of sowing “confusion” in the marketplace and violating its intellectual-property rights.
Party Like It’s 1972
America’s Jobs Disaster
A healthy recovery this year, and even more a healthy economy in the future, cannot be measured simply on the basis of jobs figures, because not all jobs produce wealth.
The Death of the Celtic Tiger
Aside from small socialist groups and a handful of independent journalists and academics, the entire political establishment and its associated media outlets harangued the Irish electorate to vote Yes.
Free the Clogged-Nose 25!
The charge is “unlawful possession of a precursor.” The “precursor” here is Sudafed. Can you believe it? What was lawful only a few years ago now gets you written up in the papers as a drug dealer.
Common Objections to Capitalism
A lot of people object to what they call “capitalism,” but their objections hold little or no water once they are examined critically. Let’s consider some of the most common objections in turn.
Hoppe on the Nobel Prize
Jesse Walker’s Reason blog post, Memo to Stockholm, references Timothy (Wirkman) Virkkala’s suggestions to thoughts about the Bank of Sweden’s upcoming Nobel Memorial Prize for Economics. I posted a comment there:
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Hans-Hermann Hoppe notes in an interview:
Year After TARP: $700 Billion Down the Drain
TARP money wasn’t used to buy toxic assets. TARP money was instead used to buy preferred stock in banks, shoring up their balance sheets by giving the federal government part ownership of the banks.
