Categories: "Politics"
my 2012 election ballot - for president, Gary Johnson
October 21st, 2012For the issues of the election, comparing Gary Johnson with either Mitt Romney or the incumbent Barack Obama quickly shows Johnson to offer significantly better policy stances across the spectrum, but I will focus on what seemed responsible for Barack Obama winning his first term in 2008 - war, the military, and foreign policy. more »
privilege - when law favors private interests
October 2nd, 2012The regulatory state tends to promote special interests more »
yet another Seattle sports stadium subsidy
September 16th, 2012I am amazed and disappointed that Seattle's City Council can be considering yet one more public subsidy to sports teams. How do we know it is a subsidy? for one thing, if the stadium enthusiasts were just in business, then all they would need is a building permit. more »
bailouts on econtalk
September 10th, 2012Econtalk host Russ Roberts recently interviewed Neil Barofsky, former Special Inspector General of the TARP (and life long democrat), about his work with the Troubled Asset Relief Program and other related programs. Barofsky was responsible for making sure that the taxpayer money spent in those programs had some semblance of accountability, and instead was faced with obstacles thrown up not by the banks, but by the US administration and Treasury departments. more »
more capital consumption on Science Friday
September 2nd, 2012Science Friday exposes another example of capital consumption on a recent episode concerning the health of bridges around the United States. more »
captial consumption on Science Friday
August 19th, 2012A recent program features the topic of decaying infrastructure in water distribution around cities in the nation. more »
regulation on econtalk
May 30th, 2012This discussion of regulation made a point I did not previously appreciate, in the context of the Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) regulations that were enacted a few years ago in response to some blatant cases of fraud on the part of some corporate executives. … more »
more on institutional corruption
May 15th, 2012I had written here on the topic of how social justice is not served by institutional corruption. more »
more soup power
February 29th, 2012Along the way to dispute the identity of money and wealth, I said that money developed from commodities that held intrinsic (albeit subjective) value and had those other characteristics, ... more »
soup power
February 28th, 2012I will attempt to refute the notions of money as wealth, and capitalism as a system of conquest, in this exposition that analogizes the ingredients of a soup for the complementary factors of production. I attempted this draft in e-prime.
Wealth makes… more »
