Dumbo’s Economics Stuck in the Nineteeth Century

Frédéric Bastiat in his 1850 essay Ce qu’on voit et ce qu’on ne voit pas:

Have you ever witnessed the anger of the good shopkeeper, James Goodfellow, when his careless son happened to break a pane of glass? If you

I’ve held off on commenting in the minutiae surrounding the Michael Jackson affair, and trial, mostly because it simply didn’t interest me.  I have kept a loose eye on it, however, enough to understand that they had his doctor on

The nice thing about classic economics, is the rules do not change between markets.   It the same law of supply and demand that applies to widget, automobiles and college educations.

So speaking of  cars, aside from OWS morons, nobody would

Much ado, from Toby Harnden,Telegraph(UK):

The surf may have told a story but so too did the sight behind the reporter of people chatting and ambling along the sea front and just goofing around. There was a

Latham, NY– I’m outside Albany, getting a load for Watertown, NY.

This week has been a series of hops that saw me running to within about 10 miles of the DC monument district. A little over an hour after I

In the fabled antebellum south, of Gone with the Wind, plantation slaves existed to create wealth for their white masters.

In the Twenty First Century democrat plantation, blacks exist to blindly give their votes to their largely white political

Dumbo gets riled, is Barack Obama a moron?  I don’t know.  What intellectual credentials Obama may have remain hidden from public view.  I do contend, that Obama is a man of  very modest abilities who has been lied to

It snowed yesterday, and none dared call it global warming.

Dumbo’s Plan, from Doug MacEachern, Arizona Republic:

I thought about that on Wednesday as President Barack Obama delivered his speech about the country’s precarious finances.

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Brooklyn, NY— As this is written, I’m in the second largest city in America, the ferstwhile home of the Brooklyn Dodgers. Of course that was back in the day that America gave a damn about baseball.

To say this is

Weak Willed, George F. Will for man with a sharp tongue and a razor wit all too often lacks intestinal fortitude, from the Washington Post:

“Don’t you think it’s fair also to ask [Barack Obama] . . .

SOTU reax, Washington Post:

PRESIDENT OBAMA entered office promising to be a different kind of politician – one who would speak honestly with the American people about the hard choices they face and would help make those hard

Blowing in the Wind, Charles M. Blow whines for yet more gun control, from New York Times:

According to 2005 data from the U.N. Office on Drugs and Crime, a comparison of member countries of the Organization for

Are we a still a Christian nation? From Gallop:

PRINCETON, NJ — A majority of Americans favor letting the tax cuts enacted during the Bush administration expire for the wealthy. While 37% support keeping the tax cuts for all

Just going over some of my older writings and came across something at Pajamas Media:

Obama’s efforts at solving the financial crisis are less than successful because you can’t use government to solve a problem created by government. The president

Go green, get screwed, by Jay Fitzgerald. Boston Herald:

Cape Wind, which wants to build 130 wind turbines off the coast of Cape Cod, and National Grid announced yesterday that they’ve reached an agreement to start charging customers