Tag: Economics
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Kansas and Wichita quick takes: Thursday March 23, 2011
Today: Owens still blocks judicial selection reform; greed is killing Detroit; liberal Bias at NPR?; electric cars questioned; government as business.
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Kansas and Wichita quick takes: Wednesday March 23, 2011
Today: Health information campaign; Eisenhower book author to speak in Wichita; Kansas agencies mum on travel spending; Kansas wind energy jobs; the role of profits and losses.
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Kansas and Wichita quick takes: Tuesday March 22, 2011
Today: Progressive government; identity theft possible; is the automobile this bad?; mayor recalled; public union issues.
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Kansas migration trends
The migration trend of Kansas households is improving, but the trend of income is not.
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Quantitative easing: another round?
Another round of expansionist monetary policy in the form of quantitative easing 3 could be on the way.
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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.