The Unbroken Window

It is illegal in Maine for retailers to sell 6 gallons of milk and give away a 7th for free.  The hubris behind the whole program (similar ones operate in many states) is astonishing. The grocery store had to go to the milk czar to ask for permission to offer an in-store promotion. Under what [...]

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(1) Last Thursday, the U.S. Export-Import Bank denied loan guarantees to Reliance Power Ltd., an Indian utility building a coal-fired power plant near Sasan, India. Bucyrus International Inc., a South Milwaukee-based manufacturer, was ready to export some $310 million in mining equipment—and about $600 million over three years—but Reliance’s order was contingent on the favorable [...]

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In the event you forgot what the priorities of your government are, health care is not about health care, education is not about education, road building is not about transportation, national defense is not about defending us, agricultural policy is not about better and safer food, and environmental policy is certainly not about the environment [...]

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I’m a Met’s fan. There is perhaps no team in pro sports which embodies everything that is wrong with the world today. The Mets are famous for having enormously expensive rosters, with lots of glitz and glamor, and then not quite delivering for their fans.  It therefore gives me the warm and fuzzies to see [...]

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Coyote exposes Andy Stern and the “changey left Progressives” for the bloviating buffoons they really are.
Here is a sample:
I am not sure I have ever heard anyone sound more like a scabby beauracrat in Atlas Shrugged.  Can you believe this dweeb along with Barrack and the gang who can’t shoot straight taking credit for the [...]

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There is virtually no action to be taken by a business that could not be considered to run afoul of anti-trust legislation. Modern Anti-Trust is administered through two government agencies – the Justice Department’s Anti-Trust Division and the Federal Trade Commission. By the way the statue standing outside the FTC headquarters should give you an [...]

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From a friend of a friend:
inside the health care 2000 page bill is the 1099-misc provision (every business must send a 1099 for all purchases, no exceptions, to every other business) will be a great fee generator.
Imagine that – you must file a 1099 for every single purchase you make. That is [...]

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Many valuable links from tomorrow’s WSJ.
In its own way, the Stanford calamity is arguably worse than the SEC’s Madoff bungle. In the Madoff case, passionate outsider Harry Markopolos could find no one at the SEC who took the time to understand the scam, cared enough and had enough authority to shut down the fraud. In [...]

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Do you really believe that your elected officials are acting in your interest? Do you really believe that when they tax you, when they offer up protectionist measures, when they bail out financial institutions, when they fund schools that teach cinema majors but cut nursing programs, etc. that these are programs working in your benefit? [...]

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Export promotion strategy pursued by Obama. Add this to yet another stupid, unfair, corporatist economic policy.
Mr. Obama will sign an executive order establishing an Export Promotion Cabinet comprising the Secretaries of State, Treasury, Commerce and other top officials. The group, which will meet for the first time next month, is charged with executing Mr. Obama’s [...]

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