A new report says that housing prices having fallen nationally by 2.1% since last year. That’s not a crash or even much of a correction, and hardly seems to verify predictions of an exploding bubble. Or am I missing
I was thumbing through our new edition of The Law and loving it, of course, especially this passage: Socialism, like the old policy from which it emanates, confounds Government and society. And so, every time we object to a thing being done by Government, it concludes that we object to its being done at all. We disapprove of education by the State
If it does not say US, it is not 100% American catfish, or so says the Catfish Marketing Association, which is just oh so concerned about your health, and also very concerned that that Chinese catfish is about 2/3 cheaper than that raised in Alabama. The CMA was the real power behind the FDA’s decision to ban Chinese catfish imports into the US,
From the Times : Price inspectors and police, sometimes armed, descended on supermarkets in the Zimbabwean capital to enforce price controls. Their intervention followed the order issued by Mr Mugabe last week in an attempt to get to grips with rampant inflation. The result was chaos. Bags of sugar burst open in struggles between shoppers who had
This BusinessWeek story examines an action by Wal-Mart that is pro-consumer, pro-efficiency, pro-productivity, and pro-progress and somehow manages to present it as rapacious and damaging to everyone. How so? Well, you see, Wal-Mart cut the price of its 42 inch, flat panel television to less than $1,000. This might sound great. But, the story
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