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Entries Tagged as 'Economics & Finance'
From (Misquoted) de Tocqueville to (Correctly Quoted) Bono, By Way of Two Nobel Prizes
October 18th, 2009 · 1 Comment
Tags: Capitalism · Libertarianism · Public Goods v. Private Goods · Society, Religion, Culture Wars
Norman Borlaug, R.I.P.
September 13th, 2009 · 4 Comments
What I would prefer is to look at the relative magnitude of this man's achievements.
Tags: Capitalism · Society, Religion, Culture Wars
What is the "Basic Problem" of Health Care Costs?
July 10th, 2009 · 6 Comments
No health care socialist I'm familiar with is willing even to acknowledge, let alone attempt to answer, this very simple question: Why do we have these cost-driven problems in health insurance — and only in health insurance?
Tags: Socialized Medicine
On the Supposed "Illogic" of Opposing the "Public Option"
June 24th, 2009 · 2 Comments
President Obama is either a liar or an idiot. And he's not an idiot.
Tags: Libertarianism · Socialized Medicine
Socialized Medicine Denialism and Steve Jobs' Liver Transplant
June 23rd, 2009 · 1 Comment
Economics is the ___ science?
Tags: Socialized Medicine
"Comment Left Elsewhere" of the Day
June 22nd, 2009 · Comments Off
What better way to start summer than with the politics of zombie movies?
Tags: Capitalism · Society, Religion, Culture Wars
On Religious Bigots' New-Found (Faux) Libertarianism
April 16th, 2009 · 22 Comments
If religious bigots really want to invoke libertarian arguments to legitimize their bigotry, then they better be prepared to be judged by real libertarians about the entire spectrum of libertarian issues.
Tags: Capitalism · First Amendment - Religion · Freedom of Contract · Law · Society, Religion, Culture Wars
Luca Geithner's "Super-FDIC" Proposal
March 24th, 2009 · 2 Comments
Either their brains, or their signatures…
Tags: Activist Legislators & Nanny Statists · Capitalism
Another Quick "Debt versus Interest" Post
March 4th, 2009 · 1 Comment
While hardly irrelevant, the question of "paying off the debt" is not the truly urgent issue.
Tags: Activist Legislators & Nanny Statists · Economics & Finance · Taxation & Fiscal Policy
I Don't Know, I Can "Imagine" Quite a Bit…
March 3rd, 2009 · 1 Comment
Looking back at the Bush Social Security reform plan — and forward to the (oddly similar) Obama version.
Tags: Economics & Finance · Social Security


















