Lawrence H. White reviews for Barron’s a new book, The Forgotten Depression—1921: The Crash That Cured Itself, which examines the federal government’s minimal response to the last major economic downturn…
I was relaxing this evening while still on the clock and reading, with the full knowledge of the boss, some writings by groupies of Peter Bauer. Among other things, Bauer…
Amid all the debates about Medicaid expansion and state- or federal-based health insurance exchanges, the latest Weekly Standard article from Matthew Continetti examines a more basic issue: fundamental flaws in…
Walter Williams devotes his latest column to exposing myths surrounding price gouging. Here’s a which-is-better question for you. Suppose a New Jersey motel room rented for $125 a night prior…
Elizabeth Dole and Kay Hagan continue to go round and round on energy policy, with neither one making a whole lot of sense. However, Libertarian Chris Cole got a fair…
I found that phrase in this Bloomberg article about the redoubtable oil finds in Brazil: Brazil’s discoveries of what may be two of the world’s three biggest oil finds in…
Mayor Meeker decided that raising the price of water is off the table. He would rather shut down businesses and put people out of jobs. The landscape industry is the…
Even though I live in Wake County, I buy my water from Johnston County. The county lost 10 percent of its water reserves when a volunteer fire department recently deposited…
Kory Swanson just alerted me to this excellent Wall Street Journal article by Holman Jenkins on the economics of buying a hybrid. Of course he points out what it seems…
My friend Rob Bradley, President of the Institute for Energy Research and one of the world’s leading experts on oil and gas markets, just posted the note below on a…
Now which is more likely to get people to conserve gasoline., Governor Easley urging people to drive less, or a high price of say $4.00 per gallon for gasoline? This…
I just Googled the expression ?tomato shortage? and over 3500 references came up. Clearly the world thinks there is a tomato shortage, but in fact there is not. Indeed, I…