Energy
The latest rebranding of ‘global warming’
Thomas Lifson of the American Thinker highlights the latest attempt to excite people about global warming threats. Apparently not enough people are convinced that we have only 12 years left…
New Coke
reformulation of Coca-Cola
Liberty
Conservatives and cities
Kevin Williamson of National Review Online explains why conservatives should not simply write off America’s largest cities as too liberal. Conservatives do not do well in the cities. We assume,…
Liberty
Governments and companies both make mistakes, but…
Companies competing in the market make plenty of mistakes. Managers are prone to overestimating profits from products and overlooking troubles that the firm might encounter. Politicians are no different. They…
Budget, Taxation & Economy
Obama’s school lunch crusade: A disaster for NC
Championed by First Lady Michelle Obama and passed in 2010, The Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act was designed to provide more nutritious school meals for public school children. In North Carolina,…
Liberty
Even the Market plays April Fools sometimes
Here are some fun historical financial facts that seem to be an April Fool’s joke – but actually happened in the financial markets…. 1901: Northern Pacific railway stock hits $96…
Health Care
Drawing the wrong conclusion X — the what else is threatening Obamacare edition
Media reports on the many, many problems caused by Obamacare are invariably written from the perspective of how the problem affects the political viability of the new health care law…
Health Care
Fund focuses on the Obamacare rollout
John Fund devotes his latest National Review Online column to the problems surrounding implementation of the health insurance exchanges tied to Obamacare. … [A] lot of people would like to…
Liberty
The Marketplace Speaks
Supporters of government intervention like to think government officials sitting around a table can predict consumer behavior and determine wants and needs better than actual consumers can through the millions…
Liberty
The importance of prices
Remember ?New Coke?? Kevin D. Williamson does, and he uses that nearly 25-year-old example of a dud product in a new National Review article emphasizing the importance of prices. Williamson…
Liberty
New AP headline on the Oscars
“Oscars Bank on ‘Brokeback’ to Grab Viewers” And 20-some years ago Coca-Cola Co. banked on “New Coke” to grab soda drinkers. Although “[t]he Oscars generally lure their biggest audiences in…