Stock Market Realization
I just realized last night why the ol’ gov’ment is so concerned about the stock market’s behavior over the last couple of weeks–they are afraid of competition. Â I’m not talking about competition among business operating in an free market. Â I’m talking about the free market’s competition with the gov’ment. Up until now, the only way [...]
Afternoon of Silence
For the free market.
Is There Any Choice Other Than The Free Market?
“I’ll take any motherfucker’s money if they’re giving it away.” –Clay Davis One of the biggest arguments I read against allowing the market to solve problems like health care and fuel costs is that the market simply can’t do it. Why not? The argument goes that these businesses, along with the pharmaceutical companies, are basically [...]
Microsoft to Buy Yahoo!?
From the WSJ: The offer, $31 a share in cash and stock, is a 62% premium to Thursday’s closing price. Microsoft said Yahoo holders would be able to trade their shares for cash or 0.9509 Microsoft shares a piece, with no more than half of the overall purchase price paid in cash. Seems too good [...]
My Ideal News, uh, Thingy
I’m not affiliated with and don’t have any knowledge of the newspaper business. You could make the case that this doesn’t make my opinion worth much, but if you consider the performance over the last few years of people who do know the business, maybe doing something different warrants some consideration. Jack Lail has been [...]
More on Steroids and Baseball
After yesterday’s post, I’ve had a chance to read a little more and think about the issue. This is so obviously a free market issue to me. If baseball fans demand a clean up, we’ll have one. Frankly, I don’t think many of the baseball fans that are left really care one way or the [...]
Credit Card Regulation, Free Markets, and Paying Cash
The Coyote Chronicles challenges Free Marketers to defend deregulation of the credit card industry: You can make the argument that people who can’t pay their balances in full every month should not take out a credit card, but thats more than a little disingenuous since we would see a staggering drop in consumer spending if people [...]
Free Kittens (To a Good Home)
Okay, I already have feedback on my last post about the beggars outside of the supermarket. Some guys I work with read my blog (I write, they read, where’s the “work”?), and one of them brought up another case outside of grocery stores–free kittens. The “free kittens” sign almost always includes the small print phrase [...]
Isn’t This Rich?
And by rich I mean the lobbies that are successful in getting governors to propose prison time and heavy fines for online gamblers and poker players in the same bill that makes the way for licensing for casinos. Patrick’s casino legislation, which has been introduced at the State House but is not expected to get [...]
Milton Friedman and Phil Donahue
This one is making the rounds, and worth watching. It’s widely known that Phil did his show free of charge for many years. When he was finally forced to accept compensation, he handed what was left after taxes over to the gov’ment to do with as they saw fit. A real humanitarian.
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