Tag: Economics
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Kansas and Wichita quick takes: Sunday March 13, 2011
Today: Wichita city council this week; how attitudes can differ; private property and the price system; toward a free market in education; are lottery tickets like a state-owned casino?; money, banking and the Federal Reserve; Wichita-area legislators to meet public; Pompeo to meet with public; losing the brains race; Teachers unions explained.
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Please feel free to ignore Lou Dobbs
Television personality Lou Dobbs promotes an economic fallacy: that destruction holds the seeds of economic progress.
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Speculators selfishly provide a public service
Speculators are selfish people, acting only to make as much profit as possible for themselves without concern for the welfare of others. By doing so, they provide a valuable public service.
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Kansas and Wichita quick takes: Monday February 21, 2011
Today: Kansas legislature website; legislators on governor’s plan; Wisconsin demonstrations come to Kansas?; Wichita trash; Wichita mayoral forum didn’t go well; Wichita City Council this week; Sedgwick County commission this week.
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Wichita again to bet on corporate welfare as economic development
The Wichita City Council may take action that promotes corporate welfare and the city’s economic development policy.
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Kansas and Wichita quick takes: Monday January 31, 2011
Today: Some downtown Wichita properties plummet in value; Kansas Days; Mises University; “Rosa Parks moment” for education; the state against blacks; politics and city managers; Wednesdays in Wiedemann; Professor Cornpone; Government bird chirping.
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Arts funding in Kansas
Kansas would be better off without government-funded art for two reasons: economic and artistic.
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Stossel on politicians’ promises
A television show by John Stossel shows how government programs often don’t work as promised and cause unintended and harmful consequences.
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Kansas: business-friendly or capitalism-friendly?
While Kansas Republicans want to create a business-friendly environment, we have to be watchful for harmful crony, or false, capitalism.
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In Kansas, prosperity is achievable — if we’re willing to change
Kansas needs to reduce its state and local tax burden in order to grow the private sector, says Dave Trabert of the Kansas Policy Institute.
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Kansas and Wichita quick takes: Friday December 31, 2010
Today: “This Week in Kansas;” tax increment financing; “Lessons for the Young Economist;” the worst Congress; China has seen the future, and it is coal.