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Selling Cupcakes to Illustrate Gender Wage Inequality
The Aquinas College Jane Hibbard Idema Women's Studies Center is having a bake sale to raise awarness of the fact that women are discriminated in the workplace by the fact that women earn just 77¢ for...
View ArticleUnderstanding Simple Basic Principles of Economics
From a report issued by the Congressional Budget Office yesterday comes some disturibing news about the effect the ACA is expected to have on employment.Principle #2: People respond to incentives.The...
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During a deposition to a lawsuit, a representative for the Virginia Division of Motor Vehicles was asked by the plaintiff's attorney if someone could have "COMMIE" printed on his or her vanity license...
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Mega Millions Surreptitiously Raises the Price of Its Game
If I want to increase my profit for an existing product I have one of two ways of doing so: raise the nominal price, or reduce the size of my product. If a candy company currently prices its candy bar...
View ArticleRepresentative John Dingell To Retire . . . and he's not happy with Washington
Another Congressman is retiring and laments the acrimony in the House today relative to some idealized past. Dingell told the Detroit News he finds "serving in the House to be obnoxious" and that "it's...
View ArticleAnother news story compels me to cite Bastiat again.
One of Frédéric Bastiat's best pieces (other than The Law) is this piece on government. He states:Government is the great fiction through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody...
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Is this the biggest Mega Millions jackpot ever?
Wow! $1125 million is of course $1.125 billion. This cannot be $112.5 million, because the cash option would be much less than the stated $107 million. So it looks like tonight's Mega MIllions jackpot...
View ArticleBarefoot, Meredith and Rabin. Oh my!
The Natural Resource Defense Council (NRDC) has been running the ad below locally, apparently in an attempt to unseat incumbent Republicans in the state legislature. They are also embarking on a direct...
View ArticleShark Tank's Kevin O'Leary Redeems Himself . . . Sort of
In the video below, Kevin O'Leary does a pretty good job of explaining how many regulations disproportionately adversely impact small businesses relative to large businesses.My only quibble is that he...
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