A House Regulated Cannot Stand
Why does government continue to interfere in the housing market when the results of that intervention are so devastating? The answer is simple: local interest groups organize and pressure City Hall for action.
IP Debate?
As I noted here, I and others have been arguing the merits of IP law with patent attorney Gene Quinn on his blog at Reality Check: Anti-Patent Patent Musings Simply Bizarre and Responding to Critics: My View on Patents & Innovation.
The Keynes Solution?
It is not often that Paul Samuelson and Paul Krugman are indicted for lack of fidelity to Keynes, but this is exactly Paul Davidson’s complaint against them. He says they have been untrue to Keynes’s radical vision.
You and the State
Jan Narveson is one of the best contemporary moral and political philosophers, and it is not surprising that his introduction to political philosophy raises a vital issue that most people miss.
An Unsustainable Path of Debt Expansion
Once (hyper)inflation is publicly seen as being the lesser evil of all options available for the government meeting its debt service, it cannot be dismissed out of hand that (hyper)inflation would be the consequence.
Malpractice on the Market
A judge in a monopoly public court system faces no financial incentives to be fair and judicious in his rulings. No economic force directs him to rulings whose rewards are commensurate to damages.
Greedy-Bastard Economics
If your landlord or apartment manager hasn’t gotten around to fixing your garbage disposal for weeks, how carefully do you think about why? If you are like many people, you simply blame your landlord or manager
Michael Moore Kills Capitalism with Kool-Aid
Moore truly believes that warehouses of federal workers, in Washington, D.C., remotely running our lives is the optimal plan. He really doesn’t care why the poor are poor or the rich are rich; he just wants it fixed.
The Omelet Has No Rights
March 1955
“Butch,” my young son, was making an omelet one morning and I was supposed to be supervising the project. But my mind was more on the United Nations as a symbol of hope — the hope for universal peace and the protection of human rights.
As Butch broke the eggs into the bowl there came to mind a saying, popular among party men of the Soviet Union:
When you are making an omelet, you must break the eggs.
Mamas, Do Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Barbers
Barbershops everywhere are often the meeting place for downtown businessmen who gather to gossip and talk about current events. Frenchie’s was no different.
