Homines libenter quod volunt credunt
Posted in Institutions, Politics on Oct 22nd, 2011
Casual readers might think I am a plain ‘ol Republican, and I can see why you might think so. But if you had to ask me what the top three egregious acts of our current political system are, at least one of them is wholly supported and perpetuated by the right – and that is […]
Posted in Environment, Macroeconomics on Oct 22nd, 2011
Tucked deeply in this interesting Wall Street Journal piece about consumers getting their household finances in order: The debts include $4,000 in credit cards, $30,000 for student loans and an $8,000 loan for energy-efficient windows for his home. The windows, he said, were a mistake. Mr. Jacobs also hopes to shave enough off his $139,000 […]
Posted in Flotsam and Jetsam on Oct 22nd, 2011
HT to the PowerLine folks, here’s Ben Barber: The second dilemma posed by the new capitalism is the privatization of a digital public utility (the Internet) as the result of Bill Clinton’s decision (in the Telecommunications Act of 1996) to deregulate digital media because of so-called spectrum abundance, which supposedly offers room for diverse voices […]
Posted in Fun Facts, Standards of Living on Oct 22nd, 2011
This website tells us that the average American watches 4 hours of TV per day. That sounds high to me, so let’s cut that in half, to two hours per day. A few posts ago I mentioned how great the iPod economy was. Here is what I forgot to mention or try to quantify. My […]
