With the spring weather that we had this year, eating local doesn’t look like such a great idea:
The floods that damaged farms in southern Wisconsin will likely result in fewer fruits and vegetables at farmers’ markets this summer and help boost already high prices for organic eggs and meat at grocery stores in [...]
It seems that some people get annoyed when used book sellers visit library book sales.
Book dealers armed with handheld ISBN scanners are threatening to take over the used book sales run by volunteer fundraising groups for the Madison Public Library system, Morris said. The scanners tell them how many copies [...]
Dear Rob,
I’m sorry that none of the presidential candidates are addressing your pet issue, overpopulation. There’s a good reason for their avoidance, however. Overpopulation simply isn’t that much of a problem. The entire world population, living with the same population density as New York City, could fit into the state of Texas. If that’s too [...]
I don’t always enjoy listening to Rush Limbaugh. He tends to be bombastic and more than a bit over the top. I think that his brash rhetoric probably turns people away, who might otherwise agree with him. Still, when he’s right, he’s right.
One of his monologues today was perfectly on point.
No, no, no. [...]
Mary Anastasia O’Grady wrote in the Wall Street Journal about the findings of the latest Index of Economic Freedom.
“The evidence is piling up that neither government nor multilateral spending on education and infrastructure are key to development. To move out of poverty, countries instead need fast growth; and to get that they need [...]
Well, the Chinese have stopped even pretending concern for the welfare of the foreign peoples to whom they export. As if shipping potentially hazardous tires, dolls, wooden art sets, and even faulty fortune cookies wasn’t enough, now they’re selling people missiles.
But Saudi Arabia, a country so renowned for being concerned with safety that it [...]
Everywhere I turn in the media, I hear that the economy is horrible. I hear that our parents had it better than we do. I hear that my generation may be the first ever to be poorer than my parents generation.
Hogwash.
First off, my parents never had iPods growing up. In fact, they didn’t even have [...]
Above: A Chinese propaganda poster from 1986. No wonder Communism has appealed to so many. I would’ve called this The Communists party, but its painter named it Youthful dance steps. Oh well.
Say what you want about China’s Communist leaders, but they get results, and they get them quickly. From the latest [...]
We’d all do well to occasionally remember what exactly we mean by the word “freedom”.
I thought about that as I read through the Heritage Foundation’s Freedom Index for 2007, a list which rates each of 161 countries in the world according to that country’s level of economic freedom - that is, the level of control [...]
Bubbles are good for you. Not the bubbles kids play with or the bubbles in your bubble bath, but the bigger, flashier kind. You know — the tech bubble, the housing bubble, etc. At least, that’s what Daniel Gross says.
Well, the conventional wisdom holds that bubbles are bad. Economists don’t like them because [...]