As I have posted before: Fossil fuels have done more to improve the lot of the poor than ANYTHING ELSE in the past, or ANYTHING proposed by the benevolent elite. ============ By Donald J. Boudreaux March 27, 2015 5:56 p.m. ET Richard Branson,Arianna Huffington and several other business icons recently called on world leaders to commit to net-zero carbon emissions by 2050. Such a... Read more
Archive for the ‘Economics’ Category
Net Neutrality?
March 14 | Posted by mrossol | Economics, Henninger, Losing Freedom, Obama, TechnologyThese guys must have attended public schools. ===== By Daniel Henninger March 11, 2015 6:58 p.m. ET Washington’s seizure of the Internet is one of the great case studies in the annals of political naïveté. Over several years, leading lights of the Web—among them Netflix,Google and Tumblr—importuned the Obama White House to align itself with the cause of net neutrality. “Net neutrality,” like so many progressivist-y... Read more
Economics of Growth and Prosperity
March 14 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Business, EconomicsI simply shake my head… ========= William Baumol,Robert Litan, and Carl Schramm, “Good Capitalism, Bad Capitalism, and the Economics of Growth and Prosperity” (2007): The most astonishing thing about the extraordinary outpouring of growth and innovation that the United States and other economies have achieved over the past two centuries is that it does not astonish us. Throughout most of human history, life... Read more
How Pizza Became a Growth Stock
March 14 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Business, EconomicsLots of companies like this one. Or maybe, lots of companies have the opportunity like this one. ============= By Stephen Moore March 13, 2015 6:39 p.m. ET Here’s a question that has been puzzling Patrick Doyle, the CEO of Domino’s, for months, as he puts it: “How do we list the calorie content of our pizzas on a menu when we have 34 million... Read more
Fossil Fuels Will Save the World (Really)
March 14 | Posted by mrossol | Economics, Environment, Global Warming, Politically correct, ScienceI think the right honorable gentleman makes some very keen observations. === By Matt Ridley March 13, 2015 5:33 p.m. ET The environmental movement has advanced three arguments in recent years for giving up fossil fuels: (1) that we will soon run out of them anyway; (2) that alternative sources of energy will price them out of the marketplace; and (3) that we cannot... Read more
The Right-to-Work Advantage
March 7 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Economics, Labor, Party Politics, UnionsMore discussion would be welcome! ============= By Luke Hilgemann And David Fladeboe March 4, 2015 6:51 p.m. ET Wisconsin will likely become the nation’s 25th right-to-work state within the next week. No longer will the Badger State’s private-sector employees be compelled to join a labor union and pay dues as a condition of employment. Debates over this contentious public policy are usually cast as fights... Read more
