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Deniers vs Skeptics

Few of us who comment on the climate debate know the science involved, but there is more to it than just the science. Claiming to be “beyond left and right” I lean towards a lot of economic thought, but one certainly would expect science to be beyond the...

Unpleasant Truths

Arnold King writes in The American, Economics: A Million Mutinies Now, 2/27/12. Excerpt: The conspiracy theorists and behavioral economists appeal to those who dislike economics. As economists, we remind people of some unpleasant truths. Such unpleasant truths are...

Noteworthy Reads 2012 02 25

From the Weekly Standard, Why the Climate Skeptics Are Winning Too many of their opponents are intellectual thugs. Excerpts: Turns out the greens take in much more money from fossil fuel interests than the skeptics do. The Gleick episode exposes again a movement that...

Too Politically Big To Fail

The GM bailout is touted as a huge success for progressive government bailout of failed capitalist ideology.  None of the GOP candidates seem capable of challenging this view.  Everything comes at a cost and the cost of this bailout is very high, both in real current...