Virgin has cure for bad dates : With Valentine’s Day looming, a mobile phone company in Australia has come to the rescue with a service offering an escape from the date from hell. All a person has to do is discreetly dial three numbers and then hang up without saying a word. “Virgin Mobile will call them back a minute later with a perfect excuse
A little digging reveals that the American public health profession’s academic journals seem to be filled with articles on time preference and all kinds of diseases and ailments. I know that the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, which is the top school in the field, requires a course or two in economics. Here’s one article: “ Obesity and the
It is difficult to know where to begin this “letter”. For the past several days, most of us have harshly criticized the disgusting display of political correctness and spinelessness at the UNLV. However, I would like to take an opportunity to thank you for everything that you mean to the Austrian and libertarian community, and for everything that
Via Accounting Today , WebCPA asks : What’s the difference between Enron and the United States government? As I blogged recently , the federal government cannot get an unqualified audit, so therefore, we do not know that the financial statements of the U.S. government are fairly stated in conformity with U.S. generally accepted accounting
It is important to remember that Hoppe’s economic concepts are thoroughly Misesian, in that they are grounded in a priori logic. If the premises are true and the logical mechanisms that use those premises are correctly put into place, then the conclusion a priori is true as well. The reason that this is important is because Hoppe was reaching an
This from Casey Research (not much to add here): According to a report in the Taipei Times, none other than the Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea has declared war on long hair. Despite the fact that the supreme authority, “dear leader” Kim Jong-Il, sports a bit of a bouffant, other male North Koreans have been advised that it is
This whopper from Peter Schiff. It’s hard to say it any better than Peter, so I’ll let him take over: [shown] today on CNBC, as Steve Leisman and a guest described American consumption as being “a sacrifice,” and American consumers as “bearing the brunt of world consumption,” and of having an “obligation to consume.” First of all, the word
A fascinating and all-too-brief perspective on the economics of rebates, from Robert Frasca at Division of Labour : tax avoidance as the real reason for this largely annoying institution: Rebates turn customers into creditors. If it is cheaper to borrow from customers than from financial markets, then it is efficient for the company to offer
Today, Christopher Shea has written a “Critical Faculties” piece for The Boston Globe focusing on “ Ayn Rand’s Campus Radicals ,” offering further evidence of the proliferation of Rand scholarship. He mentions my work and the work of other Rand scholars, as well as the important role of The Journal of Ayn Rand Studies . (He cites a JARS essay by
The US government’s hypocritical, ill-conceived legislation of accounting morality known as the Oxley-Sarbanes Act has sparked a “deregistration” movement among European and other non-US firms that have registered with US stock exchanges for listing of their shares. This is described in a Wall Street Journal article that reports a reversal of the
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