Tuesday, January 31, 2012

Lower Crop Prices in the Future and the Farm Bill

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That's what the CBO is projecting. according to this Bloomberg piece.   Corn cash prices down to $4.54?  That's not going to help f...
Monday, January 30, 2012

Incarceration Rates

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Mr. Coates blogged about drug policy and incarceration today, which caused to me check our history.  Incarceration jumped from 338,000 in 19...

FSA Office Closings

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I have a Google Alert set up for "FSA".  These days as you might expect there's lots of hits on the proposed closures of FSA o...
Sunday, January 29, 2012

Innovation and the Small

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Innovation often comes from the small, the small business, the individual entrepreneur.  But innovation often disadvantages the small, the e...

Communitarian Liberalism as Zero Sum

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Ross Douthat in the NYTimes sets up a strawman, communitarian liberalism, on his way to attacking the Obama administration. But there are ...
Saturday, January 28, 2012

Why James Stewart's Production Is Down

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James B. Stewart, the prize winning author, and NYTimes columnist sat down with a calculator to compute his tax rates and reports here .  Th...

GHWBush Shows Age

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No, George W. Bush's dad isn't greying much, particularly when you realize he was born in 1924, but he is in a wheelchair according ...
Friday, January 27, 2012

A Base on the Moon

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I bow to no one in my disdain for Mr. Gingrich.  But, there's always a but.  I do have to admit to just a tad of regard for his pushing ...

Future for FSA Software

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Haven't discussed FSA in relation to the farm bill recently.  There's discussion that it will be impossible to pass a new farm bill ...

McDonalds in France

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Via Ezra Klein, here's a study of how McDonalds has succeeded in France so well that it's their second most profitable market (the K...