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Daily Archive for December 22nd, 2012

Over at Maggie’s Farm

Posted in Classical Liberalism, Politics, Welfare State on Dec 22nd, 2012

They seem more depressed than I am. My thoughts coming soon. But this’ll surely cheer you up on this snowy cold night … There are many factors, Mrs. B. theorizes. A world of kids with lousy job opportunities, higher taxes, decreasing incomes, the horrors of Newtown, unemployment, the election, etc.   She is quite shrewd about politics. From a […]

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Weekend Ponderance

Posted in labor markets on Dec 22nd, 2012

Isn’t it the case that “employment” is always 100%? What does this indicate about people if you suggest otherwise? Back in the 1600s, when we all worked on farms, would you like to have argued that the “employment rate” in America was zero? And yes, I know that the labor force statistics try to account […]

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