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Are You Sure You Want Tort Reform?

February 6, 2010

Food for thought here.

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CIA, Homeland Security, DoD, the law of war, and cyber war!

February 5, 2010

The CIA, Homeland Security and the Defense Dept. were busy this week responding to investigations of 2009’s terrorist incidents, answering Congressional questions, and voicing concerns about the adequacy of the defense budget.  Find out when we can expect terrorist attacks and what is cyber war?  Also read the reports below on related topics that were [...]

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More Corporate Rights, Less Corporate Responsibility

January 30, 2010

More here.

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Is the state really just facilitating private ordering when it grants corporate status?

January 23, 2010

I think not.

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Question 2010: Whither USA Inc.?

December 31, 2009

For some time now, the Wall Street Journal has been running a series entitled "USA Inc.", wherein it examines "the consequences of the federal government's deep intervention into the U.S. economy, from Wall Street to Detroit and beyond."  This past Monday, it ran an article entitled "After the Bailouts, Washington's the Boss", wherein it made [...]

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Utopian Economics

December 10, 2009

On my drive to the law school this morning I started listening to John Cassidy's "How Markets Fail: The Logic of Economic Calamities".  Cassidy is a staff writer and blogger at the The New Yorker.  Early on in the book, Cassidy introduces the term "utopian economics"–which he uses to describe, as I understand it, the [...]

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Is the economy getting better or worse?

December 4, 2009

We know what is reported in the media.  The Financial Times of London reports that the United States is facing our longest recession on record.   Some major newspapers like the Wall Street Journal  and New York Times, have special topic pages devoted to monitoring economic conditions.  What does the Federal Government say about the economy? 
Who is [...]

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Milton Friedman v. The Buddha

December 3, 2009

There was an interesting article in the Wall Street Journal recently about the economist Arthur Cecil Pigou (1837-1959).  The article describes Mr. Pigou as an economist “whose intellectual legacy is being rediscovered, and, unlike those of Messrs. Keynes and Friedman, it enjoys bipartisan appeal.”  This bipartisan appeal may be a reflection of the fact that [...]

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Giving Thanks for . . . the Fed?

November 26, 2009

Over at the Wall Street Journal, James Stewart is giving thanks for Ben Bernanke and Tim Geithner:
As we sit down this week to give thanks, investors face a cornucopia of blessings. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke and other economists have proclaimed the end of the worst recession since the Great Depression. The gross domestic product [...]

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What's Bad for General Motors is Bad for the U.S.A. – Our Aging Population of Retirees

November 14, 2009

     According to a recent summary from the Congressional Budget Office, because our population is becoming older and sicker spending on Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid is set to explode and the resulting mountain of debt will overwhelm us.  Here are the depressing statistics.

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Report on Withdrawal of US from Iraq- Problems Predicted

November 13, 2009

On November 2, the U.S. General Accountability Office (GAO) released a report analyzing the Dept. of Defense’s ability to drawdown (or withdrawal) U.S. Forces from Iraq.   Troop withdrawal plans are based on the U.S.-Iraq Security Agreement signed in 2008 (support by President Obama here ) and intend to reduce to 50,000 troops by August 2010 [...]

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The Public's Right to Know

October 16, 2009

The Public's Right to Know: or how polluted is Summit County?
“Every American has the right to know the chemicals to which they may be exposed in their daily living. Right-to-know laws provide information about possible chemical exposures.”   Source: U.S. EPA
Polluted water.  Polluted air.  Superfund sites. Toxic Release of Chemicals.  This is all happening around us.  [...]

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