Tagged: Economics and Financial Services

Thomas Sowell on The grand fallacy: People without the slightest knowledge of economics or the slightest experience running a business will boldly assert that women are paid only 75 percent — or some other...

My friends at the libertarian Independent Institute (the nemesis of big government conservative sellouts everywhere) have released an interesting tidbit on the spend-like-there's-no-tomorrow cabal running the current Administration. The report is available here. An...

In this posting, Bill Dennis has reminded me of the one thing I don't miss about living in Central Illinois. That said, here are a few things (link, link, link, link and link) that...

An old coworker stopped by the office today. For the most part, I like the people I've worked with at various organizations, but this guy is one of my all time favorites. It was...

Ariel Dillon of the Independent Institute on Bush's Steel Tariffs Not the First Instance of Hypocrisy on Free Trade: Now that the World Trade Organization has rejected the U.S. appeal to preserve steel tariffs...

Veronique de Rugy and Tad DeHaven of Cato Institute on 'Conservative' Bush Spends More than 'Liberal' Presidents Clinton, Carter: The Bush administration's newly released budget projections reveal an anticipated budget deficit of $450 billion...

Kit J. Nichols, Senior Policy Manager at Pioneer Institute on Business Innovations For City Living: Zipcar (PDF) Perhaps you’ve seen them—hip new cars with the telltale green dot on the door, zipping around the...

David Appell writing for Scientific American on Hot Words: A claim of nonhuman-induced global warming sparks debate: In a contretemps indicative of the political struggle over global climate change, a recent study suggested that...

Associated Press/MSNBC on House votes to ban Net bet transfers: THE VOTE BANNING Americans from using credit cards, checks and electronic fund transfers to pay for online betting transactions passed 319-104, a victory as...

Federal Reserve Board Chairman Alan Greenspan has announced his willingness to serve another term should President Bush nominate him. It's neither here nor there, just FYI.