Economic Sense

I have yet to hear a discussion from our leaders about how a fiscal (spending) stimulus will work now when similar policies failed during t...

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Is Sarah Palin inarticulate? On what basis of comparison? Would this be an issue if she were to actually run for president? Maybe not. Desp...

See The Environmental Motor Company Making Detroit a subsidiary of the Sierra Club ( Wall Street Journal)

Freedom rallies, also known as tea parties by some, have been proliferate these past few months. What are they all about? One of the first c...

The agriculture industry has and will continue to come under attach for contributing to obesity. These attacks are based on narrow special i...

Recently there has been a lot of hype created regarding the creation of 'green jobs' and even excitement that the creation of green ...

Steve Cornett of AgWeb sums it up pretty well. My response to his post and commentors: Thanks for sharing this.These sentiments reflect a b...

Several Points: 1) Bringing up DDT isn't the best grounds to stand on from a humanitarian standpoint. More lives have been lost as a re...

Another example of the ' Invisible Green Hand ' at work. This time in the dairy industry. See link here . Excerpt: "The study s...

A recent story on National Public Radio ( link ) gives an overview of a subfield of economics called behavioral economics. Behavioral econo...

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From The American Spectator : Trying to handle the crisis, the Fascist government nationalized the holdings of large banks which had accrued...

Harper's, Garret Keizer: The mega-irony of the Republican Party: that of all people conservatives ought to have been the first to grasp ...

Some recent articles: Comprehensive Reviews in Food Science and Food Safety "applying interventions to control foodborne pathogens in g...

From a recent issue of Nature Biotechnology: "Obama is clearly a science buff, and is really, honestly, into knowing the facts, having ...

Markets generate prices which reflect trade-offs based on the knowledge and preferences of millions of individuals, and provide incentives t...

Back in September Peter Wallison wrote a piece debunking the myth that deregulation was the cause of our financial shortfalls these past co...

The role of the Fed - Video Real Clear Economics- Shorting the Stimulus Deregulation and the Financial Panic- WSJ Santelli's Tea Par...