Today’s (Friday’s) Wall Street Journal editorializes about the famous Hockey Stick graph of the world’s temperature chart that would seem alone to have motivated the Kyoto Protocols. The chart has been exposed as a fraud. This brings two things to my mind: first, the persecution of Hans-Hermann Hoppe for illustrating his economic point with a
The Wall Street Journal for January 13 carried an editorial describing the slow, initial emergence of the iceberg of corruption that enabled Saddam Hussein and the family of UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan as well as a long, international chain of corrupt middlemen to skim billions from this would-be-compassionate program. Of course, the
Monsanto Suing Farmers Over Piracy Issues : In this way, Monsanto is attempting to protect its business from pirates in much the same way the entertainment industry does when it sues underground digital distributors exploiting music, movies and video games. Other IP issues aside , the AP writer conflated two seperate issues. The farmers in these
Count on Bloody Old England to bring us this: this week’s Economist reports a book in which Richard Layard, a member of the House of Lords, finds that high incomes should be steeply taxed because high incomes make other people less-happy with their own incomes, precipitating the fabled “rat race” of consumptive competition. Proceeding with almost
Free-trade stalwart Jagdish Bhagwati graces the editorial page of the Wall Street Journal for January 17 with an informative discussion of the truths and untruths of current arguments about trade being aired in and about the World Trade Organization. Bhagwati has already forgotten more about trade than most of us will ever know, and much of what
Here’s a letter I just sent to the editor of the Wall Street Journal concerning the toadying op-ed in that newspaper’s edition of January 20 concerning the administration’s fradulent Social-Security “privatization” initiative. It’s on the strong side (the way I do), but they once published something else I sent them in the same vein: Like Our
There is a program at the School of Journalism of New York University called Business and Economic Reporting. Now, you don’t have to be Austrian to deplore the state of literacy in economics in most reporting that bears on the subject, so it’s good to see that such a subject has received the attention implied by the establishment of a defined
The Wall Street Journal’s columnist, The Numbers Guy, credits yours truly in this installment for alerting him to the claim of Live Aid promoters that they would reach a worldwide audience of 5.5 billion viewers/listeners in their appeal for money, credit, food, and love for the extremely impoverished of Africa. I believe this link can be followed
According to this article in the Guardian, the average amount of bribes in Russia has risen 700% over a recent period in which prices in general have risen 70%. Furthermore, fewer bribes are being paid, so it may not be said, actually, that corruption is spreading (perhaps it is “rising”). It seems that shakedown artists are more-narrowly
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