Monthly Archives: July 2016

Archive of posts published in the specified Month

The Shrinking Middle Class is Not a Bad Thing

Measuring income inequality is more difficult than most realize.  Is it a problem if the middle class is shrinking if the reason is that most are moving into the upper class?  Why isn’t Obama bragging about this?

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Biogenic Carbon

Old MacDonald Had a . . . Climate Offender, from Bruce Dale at The Wall Street Journal A basic fact about agricultural products such as grains and oilseeds is that the carbon in them, called biogenic carbon, came from the

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Capitalization vs Regulation

While the left claims the greedy 1% led us to financial ruin, years of reflection indicate that wrongheaded regulation and policy had much to do with magnifying the depth of the recession. Deregulation was not the problem, wrong regulation was

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Strange Bedfellows

The Philando Castile shooting involves an interesting twist in the gun debate.  If he was advising the police of his concealed carry permit, then we have this very curious confluence of the Black Lives Matter movement with the Second Amendment

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California NIghtmare

Will California Ever Thrive Again?– Victor Davis Hanson in National Review Excerpts: One in three American welfare recipients resides in California. Almost a quarter of the state population lives below or near the poverty line. Yet the state’s gas and

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Bastiat and Sowell

Mark Perry posts at Carpe Diem at AEI a wonderful collection of quotes from Thomas Sowell and Frederic Bastiat, who share the same birthday and economic insights. Happy 86th birthday to economist Thomas Sowell, one of the greatest living economists

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Democracy and Freedom

by Henry Oliner “It would seem that reasonable people ought to be able to get together and get things done.” This seemingly obvious and innocuous statement, a statement of pragmatic democracy, underlies the frustration voters feel and why they think

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Best Rebel Yid 2016 – First Six Months

These are some of the best articles that stood out to me so far this year- and a few of mine . America Doesn’t Have a Gun Problem; It Has a Democrat Problem from Sultan Knish Chicago’s murder rate of 15.09

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The Genius of Spontaneous Orders

Don Boudreaux in his excellent Cafe Hayek quotes from Matt Ridley’s The Evolution of Everything.  I consider this the best new book of the year followed by Yuval Levin’s The Fractured Republic. Ridley compares the spontaneous order of evolution with

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Ideology and Pragmatism

Demonization of your opponent is an intellectually lazy way of avoiding the defense of your position. A more subtle way of such demonetization, rather just calling your opposition stupid, racist or anti-science is to call them ideological. This infers that

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Patriotism and Nationalism

Charles Cooke at National Review comments  in The Brexit Vote Was Just the Beginning In our present climate, it is customary for cosmopolitan sorts to accuse anybody who dissents from the European project of being an unreconstructed “nationalist.” Insofar as this

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