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Is Landsburg for real?
As with any of Professor Landsburg’s arguments, the logic is impeccable, he’s a clever chap. But as with any logical derivation, it is the initial assumptions from which the conclusions are drawn about which we should be wary. In the case of this article, the implicit assumption revolves around just exactly who counts in future generations. The ...
Posted to Everyday Economics by moresexplease on September 15, 2008
Makes Me Laugh -- Elites With Furrowed Brows AT LAST - -
So, the FDIC Chairman is a female children's book author from Massachusetts, who started her new job running security for our Nation's bank deposits since 2006? How fortunate for her. I am a Massachusetts/New Hampshire working guy going back to 1990, originally from the Midwest, with some college but no degree, and I have been ''getting ...
Posted to Moneybox by MichaelBernard1 on July 18, 2008
Regarding the Wall-E article...
''Wall-E tells us that if we don't change the way we live, we'll all get really fat and destroy the world.'' You'll find no bigger supporter of the first amendment than me. However, I think the statement above, quoted from the article is a little biased. To me, it sounds like someone who is just looking for a reason to look down on ...
Posted to Green Room by CWickham on July 11, 2008
four dollars a gallon ?
I m sorry we re Americans . Our country is huge ! Cars are in our blood ! Americans have a love affair with our cars ! It sure is ''interesting '' to compare our country to ''peee u n eee''* European countries. Think square footage ! I mean really... Yea its great to compare a gallon of gas to a cup of Starbucks...i like knowing it costs ...
Posted to Moneybox by kristiwarsha on May 30, 2008
When moms have the freedom
I am so happy my husband supports my desition of staying with my child at home. I just couldn't leave him in childcare. I tried 3 different center after I actually visited like 15. It was just so devastating. I came home to cry all evening for leaving my child with who know who... We couldn't afford for me not to make money, we need my income. But ...
Posted to Number 1 by ptiffany on May 10, 2008
what mommies do
Lots of moms who have decided to stay home because they just can't leave their babies in daycare, either because they find the separation too hard or because after having to pay childcare fees and gas they don't really bring much money home, they are doing GPT sites from home. I am one of them. No, I didn't believe in those sites at first. My ...
Posted to Moneybox by ptiffany on May 10, 2008
Re: In my opinion..
With the US IN DEEP RECESSION!!!! (http://www.financialpost.com/ story. html?id=326071) Dr. Rookmin Maharaj’s Corporate Governance Model may be one of the solutions to bringing the US economy back on tract. Dr. Maharaj’s research work examines the characteristics (knowledge, groupthink, and values) and tools (interconnections, evaluations and ...
Posted to Moneybox by Dr. Maharaj on April 16, 2008
Re: al "Global Warming" Gore
oh, the bad weather?? ask your Father... ''But as it was in the days of Noah, so shall it be also at the coming of the Son of Man.'' And thus, with the sword and by bloodshed the inhabitants of the earth shall mourn; and with famine, and plague, and earthquake, and the thunder of heaven, and the fierce and vivid lightning also, ...
Posted to Everyday Economics by flipp20 on October 24, 2007
An "inconvenient idiot"
Very very long but..... worth the read.... -when you have time of course- ''you are blind, you are stupid, you are in the dark, in the mist and fog, wandering to and fro like a boat upon the water without sail, rudder or oar; you know not whither you are going.'' ...
Posted to Everyday Economics by flipp20 on October 23, 2007
Re: What Al doesn't understand about climate
Gosh, I felt it was a rather simplistic article, particularly by Slate's usually high standards. It makes leaps of assumptions itself that lumps things into nice round numbers, a point off growth here, another there, to size up the effects of climate change. And that's the problem. Market economists like Ken Arrow say that we don't cost ...
Posted to Everyday Economics by awakeinwa on October 23, 2007

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