Category: Economics
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Stimulus job creation in Kansas: wow
Sometimes you have to wonder about the magic numbers that proponents of government spending (or economic development) come up with. The Kansas Meadowlark explores a little arithmetic in his post 10,000 New Highway Jobs in Kansas? Brian Wilson Crunches the Numbers.
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Articles of Interest
Kansas Senate scraps higher fines for speeders along perilous roads (Jeanine Koranda, Wichita Eagle). In a defeat for Wichita Mayor Carl Brewer, the Kansas senate decides to skip his plan for higher traffic fines along Wichita’s main east-west highway. Perhaps he’ll do better with entertainment zones. Upside-Down Economics (Michael Kinsley, Washington Post). In this column,…
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More coverage of Kansas Pork Protest
They’re the same photos that the Kansas Meadowlark took, but some different narrative. See Kansas Anti-Pork Revolt Draws 750 American Citizens!
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Protest Pork in Kansas: Report and Photos
The Kansas Meadowlark has a report with photographs of today’s protest at Representative Dennis Moore‘s office in Overland Park. Click on 500 in Overland Park brave cold, wind to protest stimulus, pork (photo essay) to see.
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Protest Pork in Kansas
Update: Report and photos of the event are here. ?A protest has been scheduled for ep. Dennis Moore?s office (D-KS) in Overland Park, KS on Sat. the 21st at 10 am in response to his support of the Stimulus Package.? Not many more details are available, but the post is from Michelle Malkin at Calling…
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Articles of Interest
25 random things about covering a capital murder trial. Wichita Eagle reporter Ron Sylvester offers surprising insights into covering a capital murder trial in a small Kansas city. The Misdirection of Resources and the Current Recession. From a talk given by Mario J. Rizzo. “I believe that recent experience supports the claim that the economist…
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Articles of Interest
Upside Down Economics (Thomas Sowell) “From television specials to newspaper editorials, the media are pushing the idea that current economic problems were caused by the market and that only the government can rescue us. … What was lacking in the housing market, they say, was government regulation of the market’s ‘greed.’ That makes great moral…
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It’s My Money — I’ll Bailout Myself!
From the Lone Star Times, economist Michelle Muccio appears in the video It?s My Money — I?ll Bailout Myself! It’s funny how many people would rather keep control over their own money rather than sending it to Washington (and their state, county, city, and school district). Can people be trusted to spend their own money?…
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Oops. Facebook Changes its Mind on AFP Stimulus Ad.
See Kudos to FaceBook for Changing Their Position Right Away.
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Facebook Finds Stimulus Petition Ad Misleading
My blogger friend Blue Collar Muse reports on a disturbing development at the extremely popular social networking site Facebook. The post FaceBook Drops NoStimulus.com Ad After Complaints explains.
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Financial crisis caused by government
Did the “excesses” of capitalism cause the current financial crisis? First, we really don’t have capitalism in the United States, at least not any reasonable semblance of laissez faire capitalism, as explained in my post The Myth that Laissez Faire Is Responsible for Our Present Crisis, based on the work of Professor George Reisman.
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Kansas minimum wage at issue again
In Kansas, some want the state’s minimum wage to rise to match the federal minimum wage. The Lawrence Journal-World reports on this in its story Lawmakers asked to increase state’s minimum wage.