As I have mentioned before (here and here), I attempt to inject some basic economics into the water-cooler conversations that take place around my office about inflation and gas prices. This weekend, I attended an economics seminar where I met someone who gave me the following illustration, which I thought I would pass along.
Ask the [...]
Entries from January 2008
January 27, 2008
Gas: 25¢/gallon
January 24, 2008
Say It Ain’t So, Joe! (REVISION)
AUTHOR’S NOTE: The following article has been modified from its original publication on January 23, 2008 to include additional detail that was provided by Julian Sanchez, Contributing Editor for Reason magazine, and co-author of the Reason article referenced in this blog entry. Many thanks to Mr. Sanchez for his input, and my apologies [...]
January 18, 2008
Nominees for Political Quote of the Year
The new year has barely begun, but the competition for the coveted A Beginner’s Guide to Freedom Political Quote of the Year Award is already heating up! Here are a few gems that will certainly be in the running when the final votes are tallied:
“Whatever the future holds, for me his role will always [...]
January 15, 2008
The Needs of the Many
With the election cycle underway, the talk around the office has turned political. I’ve had a number of interesting conversations recently with one particular co-worker who believes himself to be a small-government fiscal conservative. Like most people, he’s accustomed to discussing politics “by the book” – primary results, potential nominees, odds of winning, [...]
January 10, 2008
The Wall
Now that the primaries are in full swing, the major candidates are debating who among them can most thoroughly violate the Constitution. My money is on John “Opie the Commie Redneck” Edwards, but a number of others seem to be giving him a run for his money, particularly when it comes to their plans [...]
January 6, 2008
National Insecurity
Once again, the sparks flew between Ron Paul and the other Republican candidates over the issue of terrorism in last night’s ABC News/Facebook Republican debate from New Hampshire. As he had done in the South Carolina debate a few months earlier, Dr. Paul stated that the primary motivation for the attacks of September [...]
January 5, 2008
I Know Who Killed the Electric Car
In 2006, Sony Classic Pictures released a documentary titled Who Killed the Electric Car, which featured a bevy of Hollywood B-list celebrities including Alexandra Paul, Peter Horton, and Ed Begley. It’s narrated by Martin Sheen. The film is a Michael Moore-style documentary with a dash of Perry Mason whodunit thrown in. It [...]
January 1, 2008
The Social(ist) Contract
“You libertarians and your obsession with the individual! What you don’t seem to understand is there’s this little thing called the social contract…” Ah, yes. The social contract. I’m familiar with it, and it’s quite a piece of work. As Jean-Jacques Rousseau states in his introduction to The Social Contract, Or Principles of Political Right,
“This [...]
