Tag: "Free Markets"
Free Markets, Dungeon Masters, and A Little Girl’s Lemonade Stand.
Whenever I hear someone say we have a real free market economy here in America, I have to stifle a bitter laugh. I liken running a business to playing a game of Dungeons and Dragons with a Dungeon Master who loves his dungeon more than the game.. Even if you’ve never played, you know the [...]
Break the UAW’s Jaw to Save It
It’s no big leap to say that the UAW is a major cause of the Big Three’s financial problems. Plenty of folks, including me, have focused on the ridiculously generous compensation packages that have the companies paying nearly full health benefits to a rapidly-growing ocean of retirees. Rand Simberg, though, has focused on something that, [...]
Yes, Rebuild the Party, But Figure Out What’s at the Core First
The Washington Post has an interesting enough article about a pair of Republicans who have started to try to drag the party out of the mire of its last two election defeats. The web site, RebuildTheParty.com, is nice and all and Ruffini and Finn’s manifesto hits the right chords but…I don’t know. It reminds me [...]
Who Wants Markets to Be Free, Really?
The term “free markets” is, I believe, perhaps the most misunderstood and misused term in all of politics. The problem is that each “side” in the economic argument – left, right, and libertarian – has grabbed a chunk of the meaning for themselves and has slathered on a good helping of additional meaning that suits [...]
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