This from Mike Davis:
Cries of price gouging in for the oil industry from Democrats such as Chuck Schumer are nothing new. Now it seems that Republicans are jumping on the band wagon. Last week, after Exxon Mobil (XOM) published record quarterly profits of $9.9 billion, Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist called for hearings to see whether a windfall profits tax should be imposed. Checking the SEC 10-Q filing reveals the following:
Though all but overlooked now, John Dickinson (1732-1808)--birthday November 2--was among the most important of America’s Founders and one of the most radical revolutionaries. He was a colonial legislator, member of the Stamp Act, Continental, and Confederation Congresses, chief executive of both Delaware (by a 25 to 1 vote; his being the only opposed) and Pennsylvania, president of the 1786 Annapolis convention that led to the Constitutional Convention, and among the most informed and seasoned statesmen to attend the Constitutional Convention.
Peter Brimelow, writing on Marketwatch, has a generous link to my piece today, and writes:
Shostak’s position is consistent with the Mises Institute’s commitment to Austrian-style free-market economics, which rejects all central banking as government manipulation.
Or is that, Glorious Google?
Before this past summer, I’d listened to every Mises University available in MP3.
[Editor’s Note: This article was first published November 24, 2005.]
Here is a rare and wonderful thing: an analysis of how DC think tanks really operate:
