The air is slowly going out of the Denver housing market. Fortunately, we didn’t experience the kinds of runaway growth rates such as in Phoenix and on the coasts, but the market here is still not good for homeowners who banked on significant appreciation.
The lead article in today’s New York Times/Pravda is titled “Real Wages Fail to Match a Rise in Productivity.” The piece is a denunciation of capitalism and its offshoot “globalization” for allowing such a thing to happen. In the print edition of the newspaper, the subhead ominously declares, “POLITICAL FALLOUT IS SEEN.”
As argued in my forthcoming Whittier Law Review article with Walter Block, The Duty to Defend Advertising Injuries Caused by Junk Faxes: An Analysis of Privacy, Spam, Detection and Blackmail, spam can, in principle, properly be considered a type of trespass--since it is a means by which the spammer uninvitedly uses another’s property.
Mr. Inconvenience is telling us that “democracy is under attack”, that “democracy is a conversation” and that media organizations are obtaining greater political and economic power.
Interesting news on the international trade front in light of my recent post on international law and another on international investment law--the President of Chad has apparently expelled (2) two large oil companies, Chevron and Malaysia’s Petronas, on allega
Controls breed controls, as Mises (I believe) noted. Is it surprising that when the state grants a monopoly in the form of a patent, and also regulates the living hell out of monopolies in its antitrust law, that conflicts in the law are bound to arise? (See the post IP vs.
I received the most fascinating email in response to this article, in which I complained about the expansion of Cap’n Crunch’s Crunchberries from red to a variety of colors of crunchberries that do not actually appear in nature.
Here is the email:
