While Wal-Mart is waging its war for secession in California , it is also working to open stores in Chicago for the first time. The leftists, of course, are screaming. Remember not so long ago when the left decried the supposedly sinister “ghetto merchant” (defended so well by Walter Block) who charges high prices for poor quality and poor
The New York Times has finally figured out what most of us have known for a long time: that the ban on DDT pushed on third world countries by wealthy, healthy Westerners, has caused millions of deaths from malaria. And now that they’ve grasped the basic concept involved, I suppose we can count on the Times to call for the abolition of the EPA and
Alex Tabarrok is concerned about an asteroid hitting the earth, and he thinks that government should take on the problem. Asteroid collision prevention is, he says, one of the few “public goods” the he supports. But do we want government involved in this business at all? Justin Raimondo wrote a good piece on this, arguing that we do not, a few
Tyler Cowen points to an article on the U.S.’s tentative, so-called “free trade agreement” with Australia: The proposed deal caps the amount of local [Australian] content at existing levels of 55 per cent on free-to-air commercial television and 25 per cent for commercial radio, and at 10 per cent on pay TV. If the government reduces these content
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