When Al Gore’s film “An Inconvenient Truth” won best documentary feature in February 2007, the Tennessee Center for Policy Research brought up an inconvenient truth of its own; the fact that Al Gore used 20 times more energy in his home than the average American household. Not wanting to be embarrassed, Mr. Gore went ahead and installed myriad energy saving devices, such [...]
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Someone’s full of hot air…and I’m not talking about mother earth
Posted in Economics, tagged al gore, developing countries, Economics, economy, energy, environment, global warming on June 26, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Free Trade is *gasp* GOOD!
Posted in Economics, tagged drew carey, Economics, free trade, reason on June 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Who-da-thunk-it? Drew Carey is the celebrity face of libertarianism these days (sorry John Stossel). I dig these videos a lot. Especially this one.
I wrote a paper that talked about this in college. It was called, “An economic case for open immigration.” Yeah, it was controversial.
Gas: The problem with price controls
Posted in Economics, Gov't Idiocy, tagged controls, crisis, Economics, free-market, gasoline, oil, price on May 6, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Here we go again. With gas prices going up it didn’t take long for many of my lefty friends to start calling for price controls. We can’t let those greedy oil companies make all this money while consumers suffer, they cry. The biggest problem with this “problem solver” is that it is not one at [...]
Looking Through Mud Colored Glasses
Posted in Economics, tagged bias, caplan, denver post, Economics, gmu, harsanyi, pessimism, pessimistic on May 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Interacting with others on a daily basis and glancing at a few headlines every now and again will most likely give the average person the impression that the sky is falling or will begin to fall very shortly. This is what George Mason University economist Bryan Caplan refers to as “pessimistic bias.” People [...]
Why people are wrong about capitalism
Posted in Economics, tagged capitalism, Economics, equality, free trade, inequality on May 1, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Although I am a libertarian myself, I have spent most of my time around the liberal left.
