1 day ago by John Bunting

Today, February 10, 2012 the trade data was released for December, 2011. There are groups claiming to represent dairy farmers who claim salvation (financial) lies in the export market. Well, can you hear the giant sucking sound? (click on image to enlarge) Obviously, this has nothing to do with any ...

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26 days ago by CHEconomics

Climate change is, in my view, a far more important problem than economic recovery. While a second financial crisis might see us moving back to the Stone Age it remains unlikely, but climate change is a certainty and threatens the very survival of the species. The inaction on climate change globally ...

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39 days ago by Matthew Bentley

Click here to access an excellent 'Prezi' on negative externalities. Essential reading for anyone taking unit 1 exam in January.

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40 days ago by admin

Over the years increasing numbers of people are considering the thought of making profits in real estate Toronto. It is a vast topic that encompasses many areas in investing, selling and buying of houses and other properties. For beginners, there’s so much info they have to find out and comprehend. ...

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48 days ago by weissheiss

A vast majority of people take out student loans to pay for higher education. The Supreme Court has decided to make social security benefits a means of repaying them. No Benefits For You! While millions borrow money to attend college and graduate school, not everyone pays this money back. The failur ...

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51 days ago by David Zetland

Digital retouching of photos is not only getting out of control ("unreal" humans) but contributing to people's anxieties (self image, etc.) Want to scare yourself? Look at the before and after photos here (seems Ms. Jolie is dong pretty well). Speaking of weird perceptions, read the straight dope on ...

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52 days ago by CHEconomics

Market failure occurs in many ways. One of the less well covered is the ' Tragedy of the commons'. Nobody used to own the fish in the sea and so fishermen could catch them without paying for them. This led to chronic overfishing and so declining fish stocks. This is really a case of ' lack of inform ...

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64 days ago by Thomas

This is a follow-up to “ Merit Goods, Positive Rights, and Cosmic Justice.” That post was inspired by a post at Austin Frakt’s blog, The Incidental Economist, about which John Goodman had this to say: Austin, on first reading, I thought you were saying that I (as a taxpayer) should help pay for your ...

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65 days ago by Lynne Kiesling

Lynne Kiesling Steve Horwitz’s column in The Freeman today is a great explication of why the phrase “market failure” is so problematic, and so often misused and abused in public policy analysis when employed to criticize market outcomes. Steve does a good job of explaining the origins of the phrase ...

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66 days ago by Matthew Bentley

The government of the Maldives has temporarily banned the depositing of rubbish from its hotels onto an island used almost entirely as a garbage dump. Thilafushi, an artificial island 7km (four miles) from the capital, is nicknamed Rubbish Island. The accumulation of garbage there has become so acut ...

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