Further to Chris’s post , after the federal government nationalized airport security in the US, placed government gatekeepers at all entryways into the terminal and planes, gummed up the works with a million new regulations, continues to protect the unions that are hamstringing the airlines, bails out large carriers whenever problems appear, after
The global-warming crowd is making hay out of the tsunami catastrophe: Reuters : “A creeping rise in sea levels tied to global warming, pollution and damage to coral reefs may make coastlines even more vulnerable to disasters like tsunamis or storms in future, experts said on Monday.” (thanks to a
A peculiar and dangerous feature of the Social Security privatization movement is how it proposes to create a new forced saving program to run parallel with the old one, rather than simply trusting people to manage their own money. The privatizers rarely discuss this openly but it’s pretty clear why they want to do this: they do not trust the free
This essay is for anyone who spends a good part of his or her day online, and doesn’t yet use news aggregation. If you already use it, click to the next item. The abbreviation of the day is RSS, which stands for Really Simple Syndication. It is used by only a small percentage of web surfers. Most people have no idea that it even exists, at least
The Argentinian government plans to raid safe deposit boxes as a way of collecting tax debts, says the BBC. The suspicion might be that they contain property that can’t be inflated away. This is central banking by another means. See Nulle on Argentina’s troubles
I’m old enough to recall a time when conservatives seemed to have some affection for the free market and freedom generally. But the memory is fading fast. If the Clinton-dominated, post-Cold War years of the 1990s conjured up the prospect of a conservative/populist uprising against the welfare-warfare state, our own times of Bush-dominated
A nicely sardonic note by Edmund Andrews : “Those who imply that stocks can promise higher returns without higher risk are essentially arguing that Social Security can be fixed with a huge exchange of paper. If that is the government’s strategy, people should by all means push for the right to shift all their payroll taxes to personal accounts and
Somehow it seems like DC is growing ever more brazenly and unusually insular and self-congratulatory: Bush Honors 3 Ex-Officials Instrumental to Iraq Policy : a killer, and spook, and an enforcer of martial law. His past picks did far more for the country and world, and seemed to at least affect an interest in something other than statism: Estee
Antony G.N. Flew , recipient of the Schlarbaum Prize in 2001 (his prize address ), sparked a news story with legs; Google news records 208 stories and counting . What’s in the news is his change on mind on the matter of theism vs. atheism, now favoring the former over the latter. What has not been noted in the stories, however, is that Flew is a
“Think of the farm bill. Think of the Medicare drug benefit. Think of the steel tariff. Now expand that to the size of Social Security...” So says a former Council of Economic Advisers staffer to Brad DeLong on the likely shape of a Social Security reform bill. We could go on: think of the Iraq War, think of the Transportation Safety
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