On my morning and afternoon commutes today, I heard a somewhat befuddling radio advertisement. It was a recruitment spot for the Border Patrol, and the major selling point seemed to be that by simply passing an exam and undergoing a 30 day training seminar, anyone could start a REWARDING CAREER in the border patrol. […]
So today I received an email from some student in an intro economics class wanting me to, I think, complete a review sheet for him/her and return it. Either this is the laziest student in the world or VikingMoose is running some sort of experiment to see how I respond to such inquiries. […]
A recent email exchange with Thoreau at Unqualified Offerings got me thinking about the best, jargon-free way to explain one of the most counter-intuitive results of international trade theory. Thoreau is a really smart dude, what with being a physicist who’s starting a tenure-track position at a reasonably notable California university this fall, but […]
Would the elimination of agriculture subsidies reduce the number of illegal immigrants?
I’m guessing that it might: Ag prices in the US are largely propped up by government subsidy and import restriction, this means that more food is grown every year than we’re going to use…a lot of it gets left around to rot, a […]
My father has been watching a new gameshow on NBC. It’s hosted by second-rate comic Howie Mandell (whose biggest claim to fame is the voice of Bobby’s Dad on the 1990s cartoon Bobby’s World), and involves about as much skill as picking lottery numbers. The shockingly creative name of the show? That’s […]
“Jane Galt” has a great post about what you should do with your money up. Her advice, I think, is spot-on, the very first comment on the thread is me linking back to my own advice posted earlier.
A friend also suggested that the First Jobs Institute and their sub-project Econ4U might be worth checking […]
That seems to be a fair question to ask, as their latest piece on the economy contains this piece of great insight:
Gasoline prices-the national average is now $2.15, according to the Energy Information Administration- have fallen because higher prices tamped down demand and supplies in the Gulf Coast have been slowly restored.
Read that sentence […]
On Friday I saw the new RENT film with my sister and her boyfriend. Fifth (third?) wheel awkwardness aside, it was a pretty decent conversion of the stage musical onto the big screen. Most of the songs were preserved, and most of the Broadway cast was back in their same roles. The […]
I don’t generally write about my job here, mainly because I don’t think much of it would be all that interesting to people. But, additionally, because a lot of what I do deals with proprietary bank information, employee and customer data, and other sorts of things that one really can’t go blabbing about on […]
Over at Cafe Hayek, Don Boudreaux has this little rant about a stupid bumper sticker he saw on an old Buick.
This reminded me of a fact that a lot of people seem to either forget, ignore, or not even know: most “American” cars aren’t really manufactured by American workers and most “Foreign” cars […]
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