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Would a historically Democratic voter be so turned off by the candidate being a woman that they would either vote…
@Corso going to follow Amp's lead and ignore the attack. But this: Gretchen Whitmer is the governor of Michigan. Michigan’s…
I know I said I'd take a step back, and I fully intended to, and I think I'll just not…
Dianne: "Whereas RFK spending an undisclosed amount of taxpayers’ money to make a video of himself shirtless with Kid Rock…
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Category Archives: Economics and the like
The Free Market, The Bald Eagle and the Takings Lawsuit
Russel Sadler, writing on BlueOregon, describes a “takings” lawsuit: In the Spring of 1998, a logging company named Coast Range Conifers acquired 40 acres of timber known as the Beaver Tract. Subsequently, a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service employee observed … Continue reading
Posted in Economics and the like
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What Would The World Look Like If…
I wanted to share an interesting and thought provoking eye-opener about how the world might look if we represented it as 100 people. This idea was inspired by the writings of Donella Meadows, a woman who dedicated her activism to creating models of sustainability, and adapted into a web based mini-film by Allyson Lucca. Continue reading
Power Line on the Minimum Wage
While looking for something else, I came across this post on the right-wing blog Power Line, attacking a groundbreaking study of the minimum wage by economists David Card and Alan Krueger. From a summary of the study by John Schmitt … Continue reading
Posted in Economics and the like, Minimum Wage
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New poll data on abortion
Via Tapped, this PEW center poll has an interesting abortion question; rather than asking about banning or not banning, or about Roe, they asked if people opposed or favored “making it more difficult for a woman to get an abortion.” … Continue reading
Myth: The Wage Gap is Caused by Men’s Higher Pay for Dangerous Jobs (wage gap series, part 10)
(This is one of a series of posts on the wage gap.) Over on Amanda’s blog, reader “JenK” writes: Men are more willing to take on dangerous jobs so can find better paying jobs than those who are not willing … Continue reading
Wal-Mart: Enemy of the Free Market
Via Prometheus 6, an article on TomPaine.com points out that Wal-Mart – praised by Republicans like Dick Cheney as an ideal example of the free market at work – could never exist in a genuinely free market. Putting aside the … Continue reading
Posted in Economics and the like
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More Single Women Buying Homes
From News 14 Carolina: The National Retail Association reports in 2003 single women bought one in five homes. That’s close to two million homes. The share of homes bought by single women has increased about 33 percent over the past … Continue reading
The office of the future
Demi at Pilgrim’s Progress links to LA Mom, who in turn links to this photo-essay (with music) of the working environment at Motherhood magazine. As Demi writes: There is no reason whatsoever to think that every office couldn’t look something … Continue reading
Ask a 19th Century Whaling Expert
You should go over to Crooked Timber and read “Ask a Nineteenth Century Whaling Expert,” in which Ted asks an expert (Kenneth Gardner) how it is that whales were so valuable.: I’m baffled at the economics of nineteenth-century whaling. In … Continue reading
Posted in Economics and the like
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Corso: By being the oldest, whitest, most milquetoast centrist candidate on the face of the planet and run on a…