Posted in Uncategorized, tagged economics, government, liberty, taxes on 26 November 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Editor, The Wall Street Journal
200 Liberty Street
New York, NY 10281
To the Editor:
Arthur Bowring is correct that pirates raise costs to consumers (“The Price of Piracy,” November 25). Having to confront predators possessing the brute force to seize their cargoes and persons, merchants naturally cut back on their commercial activities and demand premium payments [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged cnn, economics, liberty, monetary policy, Obama, regulation on 25 November 2008 | 1 Comment »
Kurt Bouwhuis, Mackinac Center Intern
“What we’re seeing — even before Obama is sworn in — is a changing of the guard, so the new folks are ready to take charge on Day One.
Some Republicans have predictably begun to grumble about the size of the stimulus package, but here’s a question: What would you [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged economics, elitist, free-market, liberty, sfe on 25 November 2008 | Leave a Comment »
“In short, free markets are nothing more than free individuals doing what they feel is best for themselves. Speaking out against it takes an immeasurable amount of arrogance. It necessitates that you can be judge and jury in the lives of others, rather than allowing them to do the best they can with what they [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged dollar, economics, gold, liberty, monetary policy, peter schiff, public policy on 24 November 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Kurt Bouwhuis, Mackinac Center Intern
In this video, Peter Shiff projects a huge devaluation of the dollar and a lack of confidence in foreign lenders.
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged bailout, capitalism, liberty, michael moore on 21 November 2008 | 2 Comments »
Kurt Bouwhuis, Mackinac Center Intern
I don’t have words to explain how I feel about this…
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged app store, competition, developer, iphone, liberty, technology, trism on 21 November 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Kurt Bouwhuis, Mackinac Center Intern
The launch of the App Store for the iPhone has generated great results for consumers. Developers looking to develop for the iPhone have relatively low barriers to entry, leaving a large amount of developers competing to create the best apps. This large competitive field of developers has left consumers with a [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged debt, economics, inflation, investment, liberty, recession, spending on 20 November 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Kurt Bouwhuis, Mackinac Center Intern
I came across this article today while reading the Detroit News. There are a couple economists who voice their opinions about where the economy is going. The general consensus was that the United States economy will continue to be in a recession until the middle of next year. Some of the [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged al gore, climate, Environment, global warming, james hansen, liberty on 18 November 2008 | 2 Comments »
By: Isaac Morehouse at the SFE Blog
Posted on November 17, 2008
Another one for the “doomsday prophets falsifications” file. After reporting that last month was the hottest October on record, Al Gore’s favorite scientist had to (once again*) retract his findings: From the Telegraph:
The error was so glaring that when it was reported on the two [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged democrat, economics, economy, liberty, Obama, republican, two party system on 18 November 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Kurt Bouwhuis, Mackinac Center Intern
“You actually have a consensus among conservative, Republican-leaning economists and liberal, left-leaning economists. And the consensus is this: that we have to do whatever it takes to get this economy moving again, that we’re going to have to spend money now to stimulate the economy,” Obama said on the program, which [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged big three, Detroit, economics, granholm, liberty, Michigan on 17 November 2008 | 1 Comment »
Editor, Washington Post
1150 15th St., NW
Washington, DC 20071
Dear Editor:
Countless flaws infect the arguments – offered in your pages today by both Jeffrey Sachs and Robert Samuelson – for a government bailout of GM, Ford, and Chrysler. Not least among these flaws is the common presumption that these firms are too big to be allowed to [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged regulation, wine on 14 November 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Lauren Ruhland, MCPP science editor and 2008 summer intern
Michigan’s current law prohibiting out-of-state vinyards from shipping wine directly to consumers fell afoul of the state Supreme Court, which ruled in September that the law is unconstitutional because it discriminated between Michigan and non-Michigan wineries. How did your lawmakers respond? Not by opening up the market [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged credit, duck tails, economics, fed, inflation, liberty, money on 14 November 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Kurt Bouwhuis, Mackinac Center Intern
Posted in Uncategorized on 12 November 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Kurt Bouwhuis, Mackinac Center Intern
http://www.jennifergranholm.com/site/News2?page=NewsArticle&id=11547&news_iv_ctrl=2261
What do you think? Sounds like an investment you would be making with your own money?
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged automotive, economics, granholm, liberty, Michigan, Obama on 11 November 2008 | 3 Comments »
Kurt Bouwhuis, Mackinac Center Intern
“In the United States alone, U.S. automakers directly employ about 355,000 workers, and another 4.5 million Americans work in sectors that are supported by the auto industry. Auto manufacturers are the largest purchasers of U.S. manufactured steel, aluminum, iron, copper, plastics, rubber, electronics and computer chips. Hundreds of automotive suppliers in [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged econ talk, economcis, epstein, liberty on 10 November 2008 | 1 Comment »
Richard Epstein of the University of Chicago talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the relationship between happiness and wealth, the effects of inequality on happiness, and the economics of envy and altruism. He also applies the theory of evolution to explain some of the findings of the happiness literature.
Click here to listen – http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2008/11/richard_epstein.html
