Recent Posts Tagged With 'economics'

• The "uninsured Americans" Trojan horse

  Posted on Thursday November 26th, 2009 at 15:40 in economics, health care, the left

  One of the main issues that allegedly motivates calls for health care "reform"- be it instituting single-payer, a "public option," insurance mandates, requiring insurance companies to accept all patients or charge the same amount regardless of risk, ...

• The Berlin Wall and the fruits of liberty

  Posted on Tuesday November 10th, 2009 at 15:32 in Germany, economics, communism, the left, berlin wall

  20 years ago as of Monday, the citizens of East Berlin penetrated the Berlin Wall and gained access to the West. The wall's physical destruction would not be completed for weeks, but its power was broken. My paternal grandmother was born in Germany, ...

• Review of Economics for Real People

  Posted on Wednesday June 10th, 2009 at 16:47 in economics, all political posts

  We're always on the cutting edge here at The Superfluous Man, and so I'm happy to bring you a review of 2004's Economics for Real People: An Introduction to the Austrian School by Gene Callahan. In all seriousness, though, it's an excellent book for...

• Fall guys

  Posted on Tuesday April 28th, 2009 at 20:07 in economics, all political posts

  The public uproar over the bonuses for the executives of AIG must be one of the most ridiculous cases of misdirected anger in my lifetime. I'm not going to get all weepy over the hurt feelings of millionaire recipients of government boodle, but itâ€...

• Today Bureaucrash, tomorrow the world!

  Posted on Tuesday March 24th, 2009 at 17:10 in economics, law enforcement, all political posts, my other writings

  My apologies for my absence from this site. I haven't been idle, however- I'm now one of the regular bloggers on Bureaucrash. It's given me a chance to do some "entry-level" writing on libertarianism, which I haven't really done since college. I'l...

• The dread scourge of unlicensed Christmas desserts

  Posted on Monday January 12th, 2009 at 17:51 in economics, law enforcement, all political posts

• Ah, those stalwart champions of the common man

  Posted on Tuesday November 18th, 2008 at 15:39 in economics, the left, all political posts

  Reading the response to this post by Will Wilkinson, especially in the post’s comments section, made me chuckle a bit. Wilkinson argues that giving billions of dollars in taxpayer money to the Big 3 car companies would be a bad idea. This leads to ...