HCA/Riverside strike
Amidst various swirling rumors of the buyout/non-buyout, HCA is facing trouble on the labor front. Thousands of HCA workers are threatening a strike if talks don't progress: "My coworkers and I never...
View Articlethe failure of capitalism
Speaking of capitalism, while talking with Kleinheider last night, we talked about how amazing it was that some people find the time to blog so prolifically, and I shook my head and said "yeah, I have...
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Laffer Speaks
Dr. Arthur Laffer is speaking this Tuesday, Oct. 10, 4:15 – 5:30 p.m., at the Renaissance Hotel in the Music City Ballroom. Come on out and ask him about the Neo-Laffer Curve (pictured above): a more...
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the web 2.0 economy
An interesting but deeply flawed article on "Web 2.0", the brand, and its ramifications for our capitalist economy. They provide an anarchist (in theory, though it strikes me as more knee-jerk...
View Articlequote (passage) of the day
It is a simple matter of arithmetic that change may be costly to the man who has something; it cannot be so to the man who has nothing. There is always, accordingly, a high correlation between...
View Articlerush limbaugh is a big fat idiot
I know I shouldn't be reading Rush Limbaugh, but it came up in a google search and I read it by accident. From Explained: Obama's Lies about Raising Taxes on Small Business: Obama says that most small...
View Articlethis post uses naughty words
Wow. Just ... wow. John Stossel on Haiti: George Mason University Economist Don Boudreaux again opens my brain to what should have been obvious: (T)he Haitian earthquake killed tens of thousands of...
View ArticleSatoshi Nakamoto == Milton Friedman duh
"I've always been in favor of abolishing the federal reserve, and substituting a machine program that would keep the supply of money going up at a steady rate." -- Milton Friedman So .. basically we...
View Articlea few things about the bitcoin turbulence
DISCLAIMER: a lot of people are going to skim or not read this at all and just assume I'm another neckbeard technocrat bitcoin fanboy. That's fine. I am fascinated by the bitcoin experiment, and the...
View Articlebig government and big corporations
An interesting, if obvious, observation as to why large government's success hinges on the existence and success of large corporations: The key mechanism that makes third-party tax enforcement...
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