The Denver Post has an excellent article on the convoluted system of farm subsidies that have produced such heavy production of meat, dairy and grain at the expense of fruits and vegatables. They note that it is more expensive to produce fruits and vegetables, but we could also notice that subsidy to grains, corn, for instance, leads to less farm
It seems that the public relations industry is always trying to distance itself from the image that its main business is in providing “spin” or “spinning the news for its clients. This is true to a certain extent throughout both the public and private sector PR types. Afterall, who doesn’t want to put a good face on corporate earnings or home
Not aggressively enough, it seems. Barry Ritholtz says at his blog that the only way the banks will ever learn is if they lose big judgments in court – a notion that seems to be borne out by another aspect of the Schroit debacle. but this isn’t true, the big banks will learn when the government stops bailing them out. If the market were actually
Shocking news. A representative from the banking industry praises the looting of the taxpayers to benefit his industry. The Chief Economist for the Mortgage Bankers Association (who’s a former Federal Reserve governor) has announced that “without TARP money, without the Federal Reserve program, without the fiscal stimulus programs, the
This is just the latest empirical example backing up William Anderson’s arguments showing that water is distributed by political means. But it also shows that very little is used by the suburbs even though one of the central talking points of the environmentalist left for years has been that urban “sprawl” itself a result of government
“In Defense of Flash Trading” by James E. Miller As society and technology progress, the instantaneous sharing of knowledge and information is not something to fear but to celebrate. In a world where capital moves at the speed of light, flash trading ensures that resources will continue to meet more deserving hands and be put to more efficient
Ever since the current depression began, the Fed and most Washington politicians have assured us that quantitative easing, low interest rates and stimulus spending would all combine to set the state for real estate to “lead us out of the recession.” As far as I can tell, this theory is based on the idea that if real estate values can be
Hastert Faults Report on Exporting Jobs WASHINGTON, Feb. 11 — Speaker J. Dennis Hastert of Illinois, the top Republican in the House, joined Democrats on Wednesday in taking issue with [pretty darn good--LR] remarks by a White House economist that the movement of American jobs overseas could have economic and trade benefits. In a statement, Mr.
On Tolerance.org today is a piece about school integration activist Daisy Bates . Part of it relates her family’s problem with death threats: “...[her] house — and Bates herself — became the target of white segregationist hatred, vandalism and even death threats. Daisy and L.C. Bates were branded ‘two of the most radical people in Arkansas.’ “’It
According to Dale E Watts of the Kansas State Historical Society, “Bleeding Kansas” was not nearly as violent as once thought. (See article in PDF here ) For those unfamiliar with the period, “Bleeding Kansas” is the name for the territorial period of 1854-1861 when Kansans fought over whether the state would enter the Union as a slave state or a
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