Economic Sense

In a recent article in Time Magazine , ( Getting Real About the High Price of Cheap Food) I think that I have witnessed one of the worst pi...

Our founders certainly had a good idea of the things that Government may be more effective at, as indicated in the specifically enumerated p...

Governments allocate resources in a fundamentally different way than free individuals behaving cooperatively in voluntary exchange via marke...

I'm still looking into the economics of this issue, but here are various related links I've looked at so far: From the New York Time...

On the Duck's Unlimited Web page I found the following information about their support of the Clean Water Restoration Act . See relate...

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...

ADDITIONAL LINKS ON NATIONAL HEALTH CARE

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...