Homeless people can’t pay fines. What to do about panhandling? San Antonio has a solution: You see them everywhere….panhandlers…often holding crude cardboard signs, begging for cash at busy intersections. Efforts to wipe out panhandling by outlawing the practice have been ineffective, largely because panhandlers don’t have the money to pay fines, taxpayers are not excited [...]

Unlike Rob over at To the People, I think this is great: PALMDALE, Calif. — Schoolteacher Shana Richey misses the playroom she decorated with Glamour Girl decals for her daughters. Fireman Jay Fernandez misses the custom putting green he installed in his backyard. But ever since they quit paying their mortgages and walked away from [...]

Oh, my. Michael Moore admits that Capitalism is good, and that Corporatism is bad. I’m a big fan of small businesses and try to shop at them as often as I possibly can. Unfortunately, what I purchase is often not produced by small businesses – I just can’t afford to.

Public Hearing on Beer Tax Hike MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A state legislative committee will hold a public hearing Tuesday on a proposal to increase Wisconsin’s beer tax for the first time since 1969. The tax is the third lowest in the country and past attempts to raise it have met with significant opposition. The [...]

Now the goal is applying this to the sexual market. How to entice the female brain to flood itself with oxytocin is key. “Markets are about serving the needs of another.” This is almost counter to what most people think about trade, but it resonates with a study I read last year (google it yourself, [...]

Economics is imperfect? Say it ain’t so: As I see it, the economics profession went astray because economists, as a group, mistook beauty, clad in impressive-looking mathematics, for truth. Until the Great Depression, most economists clung to a vision of capitalism as a perfect or nearly perfect system. That vision wasn’t sustainable in the face [...]

Trends over the last 200 years – in the economy, technology, and society – clearly point to the decade between 2015 and 2025 as heralding a similar economic and exploration boom as the 1960s, accompanied by a Camelot-style zeitgeist.When the 1960s wave of space exploration is viewed in the context of other major science, technology, [...]

Cash For Clunkers is a Modern-Day Version of the Broken Window Fallacy Cash For Clunkers is an economically unsound program that will only make the American economic situation worse. It transfers wealth from one group of people to another while simultaneously destroying real wealth and misallocating scarce capital away from its best use. To understand [...]

Starbucks to start selling alcohol. Lame. We have a place like this here, it’s called Metro Coffehouse. One of the better places to pick up chicks, a stone’s throw from my bed and good coffee. And the drinks are usually pretty good.

I caught my roommate doing this earlier. She left, we went out for a beer and he boasted about it. I just smiled and nodded. The room got quiet and I couldn’t help but shake my head in disbelief when I read this headline outloud at work today. Being prejudice and/or racist isn’t illegal (however [...]