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How the world really works

by Russ Robertsvia Cafe Hayek
Sunday, May 17, 2009

Is it a good idea to have medical records stored in electronic form rather than paper?...

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Bad Prediction, Bad Graphics

by Russ Robertsvia Cafe Hayek
Sunday, May 17, 2009

A number of people have sent me versions of this graph that Greg Mankiw has now noted...

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Thomas Sowell: Regulators Started Housing Crisis

with Thomas Sowellvia NewsMax
Sunday, May 17, 2009

Respected economist Dr. Thomas Sowell, author of the new book "The Housing Boom and Bust," tells Newsmax that the current housing crisis can be blamed on pressure from government officials seeking to remedy a "problem that didn't exist."...

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Economist Says Regulators Started Crisis

with Thomas Sowellvia NewsMax
Sunday, May 17, 2009

Economist examines how it happened, who's to blame and why it may happen again...

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The Conflict in Modern Conservatism Once Again

by Gary S. Beckervia Becker-Posner Blog
Sunday, May 17, 2009

Posner and I decided to post again this week on the conservative movement because of the great interest in our discussion last week...

Analysis and Commentary

Diminished Returns

by Niall Fergusonvia New York Times Magazine
Sunday, May 17, 2009

If financial crises were distributed along a bell curve — like traffic accidents or people’s heights — really big ones wouldn’t happen very often...

In the News

Schwarzenegger's vaunted salesmanship tested

with Bill Whalenvia San Francisco Chronicle
Sunday, May 17, 2009

In the wildly diverse worlds of bodybuilding, movies and politics, Arnold Schwarzenegger has consistently marshaled one critical skill - an uncanny knack for salesmanship - to catapult him to the top of his class...

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Next on the Statists' Menu: Health Care

with Thomas Sowellvia Creators Syndicate
Friday, May 15, 2009

Since Bill Clinton's 1992 presidential campaign, proponents of socialized medicine have bombarded us with nonstop demagoguery about the 40 million-plus uninsured to create a crisis mentality sufficient to catalyze sweeping "reforms."...

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Following the money

by Russ Robertsvia Cafe Hayek
Friday, May 15, 2009

Here are two totally intuitive common sense arguments: "Buying local is better than buying from a chain store—the money stays in the community."...

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Model of reinvention

with John B. Taylorvia Australian
Friday, May 15, 2009

KEVIN Rudd was a fiscal conservative, then a neo-interventionist, now he's an instrumental rationalist, but for how long?...

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