Jim Garven's Blog
Here’s a list of articles that I have been reading lately:
What the Top 1% of Earners Majored In
economix.blogs.nytimes.com
“The majors providing the best entree into the top income rank are pre-med, economics, biochemistry, zoology and biology.”
www.washingtonpost.com
Quoting [...]
Here’s a list of articles and videos that I have been reading and viewing lately:
online.wsj.com
Quoting from this article, “…the best antidote to foolish thinking about job creation is the work of economists Steven J. Davis and John Haltiwanger. Their painstaking research [...]
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Government: The redistributionist behemoth
www.washingtonpost.com
Quoting from George Will’s most recent Washington Post column, “Try a thought experiment suggested decades ago by University of Chicago law professors Walter Blum and Harry Kalven in their 1952 essay “The Uneasy Case for Progressive Taxation,” [...]
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Dave Barry’s 2011 Year in Review
www.miamiherald.com
Dave Barry’s “Year in Review” columns are quite good – the “2011 Year in Review” is no exception…
The Hidden Dangers of the “Living Wage”
www.hoover.org
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www.freakonomics.com
Friends don’t let friends drive OR walk drunk. Quoting from this article, “…every mile walked drunk… turns out to be eight times more dangerous than the mile driven drunk. To put it simply, if [...]
Here are the prediction markets odds on the GOP nomination, outcome of the 2012 Iowa caucus, and the re-election prospects for Barack Obama
Here’s a remarkable video of former UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher’s last House of Commons speech (recorded 11/22/1990) on the economics and social consequences of income inequality; she also opines presciently about various dysfunctional aspects of the yet-to-be-formed economic and monetary union of various EU member states (i.e., the so-called eurozone; cf. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurozone) and [...]
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David Keyes: Merry Christmas From Saudi Arabia
professional.wsj.com
“David Keyes writes of the holiday card sent out by Saudi ambassador to the U.S. Adel al-Jubeir—Christmas greetings from a regime that prohibits Christians from worshipping publicly or wearing crosses… Had [...]
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blogs.wsj.com
“Ron Paul’s investment strategy isn’t merely different. It’s shockingly different …(Investment manager) Mr. Bernstein says he has never seen such an extreme bet on economic catastrophe. “This portfolio is a half-step away from a cellar-full [...]
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www.forbes.com
“This take on a Christmas classic was inspired in part by a sermon…and Murray Rothbard’s essay ‘Law, Property Rights, and Air Pollution.’”
