NYT calls for more aid for Africa
According to the New York Times lead editorial on April 25, Ghana is the new success story of Africa. Though still terribly poor, Ghana is a role model of stability. And its needs only…....
Category: Economic Thinking
Don’t Wrap the Veggies and Don’t Hector the Villagers
Too bad New York Times reporters don’t read Forbes. Contrast a Forbes article (below) about a global corporation bringing to developing countries the know how for producing and the trust for buying quality goods,...
Nairobi’s Plastic Bags are Barking
Sometime symptoms are confused with the disease that causes them. I would argue that litter is a symptom. According to an article in the April 7 New York Times (p. A4), scattered plastic bags...
Tsunami Danger…Tomorrow [updated]
[Great news! It didn’t happen. No big “global warming induced” wave. Lives saved but also little attention paid to the “Countdown to global catastrophe” environmentalist report (click link in title above to see article)....
Thinking Outside the Border Box
The aid dollars pour out to assist those whose lives have been devastated by the tsunami. Millions of dollars will help provide food, clean water, medicine, and soon shelter and rebuilding infrastructure and businesses....
Ideas for Reducing Dependence on Foreign Oil
Homeschool students are debating a resolution calling for reducing dependence on foreign oil. I have spoke to at over a dozen Economic Thinking debate workshops designed to provid an introduction to economic concepts, and...
Wal-Mart Seen and Unseen
How do we measure a community’s net loss or gain when new stores come to town? There is no easy way to measure progress, nor to measure decline. From a distance, and over decades...
Family, Work, Community: Did Ebenezer Scrooge Dream a Better Life for Himself?
Family, Work, Community: Did Ebenezer Scrooge Dream a Better Life for Himself? Reflections on watching George C. Scott in Dicken’s “A Christmas Carol” by Gregory Rehmke Consider Charles Dicken’s Ebenezer Scrooge, as brought to...