How’s That “Upside” Working Out for the Taxpayers?
Posted in Corporatism on Sep 24th, 2009
The “fair value” of the Fed’s holdings of stinky Bear Stearns assets today stands at $26.146 billion. A year ago it was “worth” $29.333 billion.
Daily Archive for September 24th, 2009
What Say You Public Teacher Unions?
Posted in Education on Sep 24th, 2009
‘Creaming” is the word critics of charter schools think ends the debate over education choice. The charge has long been that charters get better results by cherry-picking the best students from standard public schools. Caroline Hoxby, a Stanford economist, found a way to reliably examine this alleged bias, and the results are breakthrough news for […]
Was Global Warming Worth It?
Posted in Environment, Standards of Living on Sep 24th, 2009
Here’s a proposition I wished I could make to someone living at the dawn of Industrial Revolution. You can continue living to age 26, which is the expected life term of someone born at this time (with small chance of long life) and have cool planet with fewer macro-environmental risks (potentially). Remember however that you […]
