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Daily Archive for October 20th, 2011

The ever readable Tom Palmer points me to a story that I have forgotten, incredibly: Frustrated that people continued to consume so much alcohol even after it was banned, federal officials had decided to try a different kind of enforcement. They ordered the poisoning of industrial alcohols manufactured in the United States, products regularly stolen […]

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It just occurred to me that the following two concepts cannot possibly exist side by side: There is a folk belief then when a rich nation trades with a poorer nation, that the income of workers in rich countries is reduced. There is yet another popular folk belief out there: that when a rich nation […]

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