It’s the market that turns waste into a resource, not government-mandated recycling. According to TwinCities.com : Jimmy Robbins II of Robbins Lumber in Searsmont said it’s gotten to the point where wood shavings, which are popular with horse farms, are worth more than the lumber. “We use every part of the tree. Everything is consumed,” Robbins
There are decent public schools and terrible ones, so there is no use generalizing. Nor is there a need to trot out data on test scores. Let me just deal with economics. All studies have shown that average cost per pupil for public schools is twice that of private schools. if we could abolish public schools and compulsory schooling laws, and
I briefly watched CNN International this morning and one of the pundits mentioned that John McCain won the Florida primary. One of the analysts working alongside him mentioned that “just a few months ago, John McCain was [gasp] carrying his own luggage in the airport. This is an important win that will certainly help bring in new funds through
If you want to expose the absurdity of the state, think governmental accounting. Really, there is no better way to show the impossibility of a government solution to scarcity than by reading the annual audit of any governmental entity. Goethe considered double-entry bookkeeping -- the essence of accounting -- to be “one of the finest inventions of
Well, I’m half Armenian, anyway. Here are some belated photos from my speaking trip to Poland last month. Nine lectures, seven at universities around the country, mostly on the market economy (I assure you, I took the plumb line), and a couple times on American history. I was genuinely shocked at how many people told me the Mises.org website and
I never thought I’d be cheering NPR, but Michelle Norris really makes Sen. Baucus squirm . Sure her economic theory is off, but some of her questions are spot on. Norris: “Will this stimulus package in the end add to the nation’s deficit woes?” Baucus: “Well ... it’s ... um ... My thought is ... It probably will initially, but all economists say
Forbes.com has a slide show of the top 20 richest counties in the US. The top three, and ten of the top 20, are located within commuting distance of DC. I wonder if there is some causation to that
Hmmm. Some issues do not have a simple, straightforward answer. Consider this controversy being debated in Central Ohio. As reported in The Columbus Dispatch , “The graduation ceremony for Centerburg High School students has been canceled after school officials say many seniors cheated by obtaining copies of tests hacked from the school’s computer
Blogger Waldo Jaquith discovers that the isolated man — a nontrading man — cannot make a cheeseburger, even after years of effort. Sadly, the Scientific American writer dismisses the market due to his Malthusian
My wife and I just celebrated the birth of a beautiful, brown-haired boy. During the night, as I was waiting for nature to run its course, I walked around observing the maternity unit of our chosen hospital. Though this was our seventh trip there, as I ambled about, something caught my eye for the very first time. There next to the door to labor
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