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Mises Daily
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A recent article in The New York Times quotes President Obama as saying, “I don’t buy the argument that providing workers with collective-bargaining rights somehow weakens the economy or worsens the business environment. If you’ve got workers who have decent pay and benefits, they’re also customers for business.” (March 2, 2009, p. B3.) The
Mises Wire
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The Washington Post reports that the House of Representatives this week overwhelmingly passed a measure imposing severe penalties for “price gouging,” an alleged phenomenon it was unable to define and has left to the Federal Trade Commission to define. Once the Federal Trade Commission figures out what price gouging is, it is authorized to impose
Mises Wire
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The following is from The New York Times of November 7, 2006 : Separating anatomy from what it means to be a man or a woman, New York City is moving forward with a plan to let people alter the sex on their birth certificate even if they have not had sex-change surgery. Under the rule being considered by the city’s Board of Health, which is likely
Mises Daily
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The meaning of the government’s proposal to break Microsoft into two separate companies, the one confined to producing Windows, the other confined to producing application software, is that one or the other of these two major branches of personal computer software is to be closed to the productive genius of America’s most successful software
Mises Daily
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The state of California is experiencing a fiasco in its electric power system. The system has repeatedly run near the overload point, necessitating brownouts and threatening rolling blackouts. Wholesale power prices in San Diego County and the southern portion of adjacent Orange County have briefly been as high as $5,000 per megawatt hour and,
Mises Daily
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The New York Times recently ran a three-part series on a string of tragic industrial accidents at facilities owned by McWane Inc., a large producer of sewer and water pipe based in Alabama. The series describes nine apparently needless and sometimes especially gruesome deaths, as well as several horrendous injuries suffered by workmen. All of
Mises Daily
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President Bush’s prescription drug benefit deserves to be killed. Its estimated cost is now put at well over $700 billion for the next ten years, nearly double the original estimate given by the President when his program was enacted into law just fifteen months ago. Angry Congressmen and Senators, who believe they were deceived into enacting it
Mises Daily
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The New York Times has proved once again that it is a reliable font of economic ignorance. This time, it’s through an op-ed piece titled “ A More Perfect Union ,” by a lady named Ruth Milkman, whose credentials in economics are that she is a “sociologist” and “director of U.C.L.A.’s Institute of Industrial Relations and a visiting scholar at the
Mises Daily
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Paul Krugman is very upset. In his Monday New York Times Op-Ed column this week , he complains that while the real incomes of the great majority of Americans have essentially stagnated or declined over the last thirty-five years, “income at the 99th percentile rose 87 percent; income at the 99.9th percentile rose 181 percent; and income at the