Global Wining And The Candlemaker’s Petition

So, um, the French think that Global Warming threatens their monopoly on the best wine, which will move to Scotland.
Well, um, hm, I guess that the Candlemakers were right about the Sun being in league with perfidious Albion.

Employer Provided Healthcare IS a problem

I’ve said before that I do believe there is a problem with the Healthcare system-namely that, by having it as an insurance based system-especially employer provided insurance-disconnects consumers from the price system. Without the information conmmunicated by prices, consumers don’t behave in their normal way-rather than seek out the affordable Healthcare, they diliberately seek the [...]

Don’t miss this…

Bret Stephens on AGW and poverty:
A funny thing happened on the way to saving the world’s poor from the ravages of global warming. The poor told the warming alarmists to get lost.
READ IT!

Bawney Fwank Misses The Pwoint

Barney Frank says to business “It’s not our job to help you make money“.
No, actually, Barney, you’re right. And it’s not your job to prevent them making money either. You are supposed to get out of our damn way. But you say this after billions of our tax dollars have already been given to businesses, [...]

Memo to Congress-Chuck this crap

The Democrat controlled House of Reps is getting set to do Capn’ Trade. This is a bad idea.
There are several reasons why. First of all-projections of Catastrophic Global Warming that are the basis for the “danger” of not acting on Climate are failing miserably. There has been no warming of the lower atmosphere for over [...]

There is no Healthcare “Market”

Obama says that thepublic sector needs to get into the healthcare biz to create competition. That makes for a  curious inversion. Ordinarily it is the private sector which is supposed to have competition…so what gives? The truth is that the problem with Healthcare isn’t too much private sector, it’s too little market. In fact there [...]

The Money packs up and leaves…

Enjoy this great piece from Art Laffer and Stephen Moore on states and their tax rates.

OMB-Capn’ Trade be bringin’ da pain yo

So now that I’m done channeling MC Hammer-The Office of Management and Budget-of the Obama administration-says that those CO2 control plans…will hurt the economy. Someone will probably be fired.

Richer and Greener-Yes, That’s The Way It Goes

Here’s a great article by John Tierney in NYT(!) today. Love the visual aid from Tierney Lab:

Xiang Dong Qin, 1998 Each line is an environmental Kuznets curve for a group of countries during the 1980s. The levels of sulphur dioxide pollution (the vertical axis) rise as countries becomes more affluent (the horizontal axis). But [...]

How free is Hong Kong really?

The freest economy in the world may not be as free as it seems. For the record, however, I do not approve of keeping Hong Kong politically unfree for the sake of keeping them economically free.