Tag Archives: wealth

Working Hard — But Not at Home

August 7, 2008 – 2:21 pm

Many people like to point out how Americans work harder — and longer — than the rest of the world. Many leftists like to point out that America’s work / life balance is out of whack and that we need to spend more time at home and less time at the office. Maybe. But we don’t really [...]

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Age of Wonders

July 1, 2008 – 8:51 am

Bill Quick sends an e-mail to Glenn Reynolds: So I’m out on my bike today - it’s gorgeous in SF - and I stop by the Bay for a breather and just to sit and watch the sailboats gliding under the Bay Bridge. I open my backpack and drag out my [...]

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Aston Martin DB6 Couch

February 8, 2008 – 4:06 pm

Here’s another symbol of how rich our country is: the Aston Martin DB6 Couch: This couch is an exact replica of an Aston Martin DB6 rear end. It’s painted in a classic Aston Martin color, Silver Birch. The red leather is finished off with a Y-stitch on each cushion. Polished to perfection, this [...]

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24 or “How Far We’ve Come”

January 20, 2008 – 10:23 pm

You really should watch this parody of “24″. Not only is this hilarious, but really — isn’t life a lot better than it used to be?

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Why Are We Rich and They Poor?

January 15, 2008 – 9:21 am

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 [...]

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Reverse Imperialism

January 3, 2008 – 1:55 pm

I was just flipping through my newsreader and saw an interesting headline: Tata Pulls Ford Units Into Its Orbit: Tata Motors said that it was entering detailed talks with Ford about the takeover of Jaguar and Land Rover, confirming what investors and analysts have anticipated for months. I’ve been reading The Downing Street Years by [...]

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Everyone’s Getting Rich

November 27, 2007 – 8:19 am

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 [...]

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Poverty in America

November 4, 2007 – 10:14 pm

What causes poverty in America? Greedy capitalistic businessmen? Unethical financiers? How about marriage?: For the most part, long-term poverty today is self-inflicted. To see this, let’s examine some numbers from the Census Bureau’s 2004 Current Population Survey. There’s one segment of the black population that suffers only a 9.9 percent poverty rate, and only [...]

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Indian Wealth Leads to Indian Altruism

October 30, 2007 – 10:11 pm

I cheer globalization, even when American workers lose their jobs to non-Americans. Why? Because the world’s poor are always made better off. To be blunt, I feel far, far more sympthathy for the poor of the world than I do for America’s newly unemployed. One group of people gets to enjoy fresh food year round, [...]

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