Economics

Sticking It to the Middle Class "Budget cuts have hit public colleges hard, even as the demand for a well-educated workforce soars [http://www.usnews.com/articles/education/best-colleges/2009/08/19/budget-cuts-take-toll-on-education_print.htm] ." That's the headline from U.S. News & Report cover story

Modest Man Rides Again . . . and again, and again, and again, and again, and . . . . [http://nymag.com/news/politics/58199/] "Since occupying the White House, Barack Obama has hosted fifteen town-hall meetings; appeared in more than 800 images on the White House Flickr photo-stream; and held four prime-time press conferences,

The Great Idiocy “'Please understand that we are keen to move toward a market economy,' a senior Soviet official whose responsibility had been to provide bread to the population of Saint Petersburg in its communist days told economist Paul Seabright, ' but we need to understand the fundamental

Yikes, I own some MSFT stock: Google Inc., owner of the most-visited Internet search engine, is developing a computer operating system based on its Chrome Web browser, taking aim at Microsoft Corp. in its strongest market [http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aTd2k.YdQZ.Y]. I

Rolling Stone v. Hudge and Gudge? Interesting stuff over at Rolling Stone: Goldman Sachs has engineered every major market manipulation since the Great Depression - and they're about to do it again. [http://sites.google.com/site/disclosuredelta/] It features one of the best opening lines in magazine-writing

Employment at Wally World Yesterday, the glory of managing a McDonald's. Today, the glory of working at Wal-Mart. EconTalk's podcast this week is an interview with Charles Platt, a journalist who "went undercover" and got a job at Wal-Mart [http://www.econtalk.org/archives/

Evil Marriage I've harped on this point before [https://thedailyeudemon.com/?p=7874]: the marriage of big government and big business. The nuptials have been going on since the 17th century. It infuriated Belloc and Chesterton, and it ought to infuriate the rest of us, but we just

Yo Ho, A Pirate's Life For Me One of the best podcasts comes from George Mason University's economics department: EconTalk. It's perfectly pitched at my level of economics learning, not too basic, not too advanced. I get excited every time a new podcast comes

In a Service Club, a Long Time Ago I belong to a service club that has a somewhat unique officer arrangement. If you "go through the chairs," you're committing to a five-year stint. Three of the years require you to be at every weekly meeting, plus