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Daily Archive for November 28th, 2010

If You Are Going to be a Mercantilist …

… at least be a good one. But let’s assume the Obama administration is mentally stuck in 1930s Italy and thinking only of exports. It still can’t justify its position on Colombia, the third largest market for agricultural imports in Latin America. American farmers now pay an average 16.5% tariff on exports to Colombia. As […]

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Quote of the Day

From David Henderson on the TSA: … one should be skeptical of government running airline security when that same government still requires that flight attendants show you how to fasten a seat belt I was reminded to blog this after a excellent current student of mine told me about a bus ride he took during […]

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My wife and I purchased our home in May of last year at an interest rate of 5%. We got a 30-year fixed rate mortgage. As part of that, as anyone else does, we paid a slew of closing costs, including the stuff we seem to get value from such as title insurance, lawyers’ fees, […]

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