Leonard Reed, Ben Rogge, and Ed Opitz of the Foundation for Economic Education had much experience with energetic libertarians who attended FEE seminars. Libertarians were often frustrated that those around them seemed unable to...
I finally had a chance this week to plug my Mac Powerbook into my father’s new LCD 1080i HDTV. I had ordered a $30 DVI-to- HDMI video cable online (to avoid the $100 price...
(Revised and expanded version of 2004 post, quoted in December 17, 2006 Toronto Star article “The Politics of Ebenezer Scrooge“) Family, Work, Community Did Ebenezer Scrooge Dream a Better Life for Himself? Reflections on...
Highly recommended is study on immigrant-founded companies in the U.S. titled “American Made” by the National Venture Capital Association (http://www.nvca.org/). Study in Acrobat is here: http://www.nvca.org/pdf/AmericanMade_study.pdf The Venture Capital study is about firms that,...
The great Free to Choose series is available to watch via Google: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4303061419031514770&q=milton+friedman&hl=en It is nearly TV quality. It is a bit blurry, but is an older video. It is great, great, great. This...
[comments on a FLOWIdealism post] Adam Smith outlined a vast range of concepts in Wealth of Nations. Though a brilliant work, not everything stood the test of time. The Classical economists saw the world...
… it undermines small-town documentaries too. New York Times columnist John Tierney’s investigative reporting on the new anti-Wal-Mart film “Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Prices” turns up some interesting contradictions between the documentary-world...
New York Times articles we’d like to see… Secret Post-Hurricane Plan Taps Into 1.4 billion Gallon Reservoir– by Not-New York Times reporter Greg Rehmke Congressmen and journalists nationwide were upset to be upstaged by...
Highly recommended short article in June 20th issue of Forbes. Titled “Trickle-Up Economics” and by David Armstrong Naazneen Karmali. Subtitle: “How low-tech, low-cost designs are helping the poorest farmers on Earth grow their way...
When I was young I used to take the trash out to the metal garbage cans by the side of the house. I wasn’t enthusiastic about it and I am sure I complained a...
