1 day ago by Don Boudreaux

Here’s a letter that I sent yesterday to the Washington Post: Brian Czech repeats one of today’s most frequently heard mantras – namely, that economic and population growth spell disaster for the planet and humanity ( Letters, Nov. 5). Virtually all available evidence contradicts this doomsday claim ...

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1 day ago by Monty Pelerin

Image by Brooklyn Museum via Flickr Image via Wikipedia Edmund Phelps, Nobel laureate, on Bloomberg stated: “There are signs that the economy has lost its dynamism, its urge to innovate, or its ability to innovate.” His observation is early for conventional economists, most of whom insist that a rec ...

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2 days ago by ilene9

An Unusually Cheery Set of Links By inoculatedinvestor, courtesy of Zero Hedge Intro: "For a change, this week I decided to only comment on links that suggest that everything in the world is rosy and that the US is already in the middle of an impressively sound V-shaped recovery. Too bad I couldn’t ...

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2 days ago by The Dog

I don’t know what you think about the latest report into Ireland but this one supports the views taken by the Commission of Taxation which recently produced their report into radically changing taxation in Ireland. The Minister of Finance was correct in that 2009/2010 it is unwise to change the basi ...

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4 days ago by Ali

My mom sent me an email the other day (that apparently she got from my uncle) about the fertility rate and its implications for living standards. It was an interesting read, but long, and I don’t know where the article came from to send you a link, so if you want to read it, click the “read more” li ...

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8 days ago by Don Boudreaux

Steve Landsburg hints at an answer.

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8 days ago by Don Boudreaux

What would have happened in India if that country had liberalized its economy ten years earlier than it did? Swaminathan S. Anklesaria Aiyar does a commendable job supplying a plausible, if gruesome, answer. He finds that with earlier reform, 14.5 million more children would have survived, 261 milli ...

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8 days ago by innovation2

Cover via Amazon If an educated and literate population is the best way to keep our standard of living and help others achieve a better and more stable one . . . whatever are we thinking? More Schools, Not Troops – NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF Dispatching more troops to Afghanistan would be a monumental bet ...

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14 days ago by darlajune

From TimesOnline President Obama Won’t Talk Climate Change in Copenhagen Did he have a change of heart? That just sounds weird that Obama won’t talk climate change. Not to worry: From Ace of Spades HQ>>>> Fortunately, plans for global wealth redistribution (enrobed in phony environmentalism) are fou ...

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15 days ago by Tom Remington

Washington D.C.: Far from providing “affordable” care for everyone, ObamaCare would result in higher insurance premiums, more and higher taxes, fewer jobs, lower wages, a reduced standard of living and an erosion of privacy and individual liberty. This is the conclusion of a new report, “No Free Lun ...

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