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Personal Lines Regulatory Framework
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Climate Change Analysis Rejected. Why is this News?
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For Our Pirate Readers
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Internet Co-Ops, Why Not?
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Taxicab Medallions and Heirloom Tomatoes to the Rescue
Full Document Available in PDF When they seek to buy inventory, expand,…
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Health and Other People’s Money
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Goodbye to Active Management?
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They’re Timid, Not (Always) Leftist
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In Defense of Freegans (Sorta)
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Pathologizing Political Disagreement
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About Metro
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About that $100 Million Skull
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Thinking About Interest Rates and the Economy
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Sen. Johnson is Back
Senator Tim Johnson, returned to work yesterday. His return means that the debate over Optional Federal Chartering of insurance will heat up (link…
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Keeping the Voices Alive
And the night was alive With a thousand voices Fighting to be heard And each and every one of them Connected to me. - Maury…
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Friars in the City
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OFC Debate to Begin Again
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The Death of Employer Sponsored Health Insurance
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Computers: The Fun is Gone
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Why do the poor drop out of college?
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One Light Bulb: $47.00
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Watery Marauders
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Ugly Purse, $52,500. . .and, as Cartman would say, ‘You Can’t Have It!’
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Ripples Make Waves: We shouldn’t tax our credit unions
When last week’s credit-related market slump started reversing the stock market’s 2007 gains, it seemed clear that the Bush Administration would act quickly…
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What Gives in South Carolina?
I’m writing this from the new library in downtown Columbia, South Carolina. It’s a big, open all glass building that I wouldn’t want to be…
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Hands Off the Carbon Credit Business!
A well-reported front page story in today’s Washington Post shows that the indulgence–oops, I mean Carbon Credit Offset industry–doesn’t always work as advertised. Many…
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Climate Change and Gardening. . . What the !@#$@!@#?
This weekend many smaller newspapers likely carried this AP story about climate change and gardening as a prominent Sunday feature. One little problem: despite…
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Bankrupting Florida
If a catastrophic Katrina-like hurricane sweeps through the state of Florida, it may leave behind more than wrecked houses, damaged shops, and ruined roads:…
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How Dare You Help Out!
The BBC reports that an old woman has “has been told she must stop tending a public flower bed unless she agrees to wear…
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Freddie and Fannie Buying Jumbo Mortgages?
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Radar on Green Fakers: A Must Read
The wonderful Radar Magazine has a funny, witty, snarky and oh-so-true feature on "Green Fakers." These are, of course, eco self-righteous celebs who…
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Harry Potter Books as Objects
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$1 a Year Man
Chrsysler, has hired former Home Depot CEO Robert Nardelli to run the now-private, once-again-American-owned automaker. Nardelli, of course, did a good job at Home…
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Nanny State In Montgomery County
Montgomery County, Maryland, is considering a law that would require food chains to post nutritional information about their food. In terms of its intrusion…
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Barriers to more effective US disaster insurance
Sir, You are right about the need for much greater purchase of disaster insurance but, perhaps, say verylittle about how difficult it might be…
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Bergman the Hack
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At Last, Competition for Amtrak?
A small upstart company run by a Colorado multi-millionaire, GrandLuxe Rail Journeys, appears to have broken a major barrier and started providing scheduled, competitive…
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Should Disaster Insurance Be Compulsory?
A masthead editorial (full text by subscription only) lays out a compelling case for mandatory purchase of catastrophe insurance. I’ve long supported something close…
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Is Traditional Landline Telephone Service Even Worth Saving?
The failure of SunRocket–which I write about here–has left a fair number of people without landline telephone service. Nothing bad seems to have happened…
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Hands off VOIP
Today's New York Times carries a story about the sudden failure and shutdown of my former home telephone company, SunRocket. Although it obviously…
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Plans for the A380
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One Cheer for Singletary
Christine: Like you, I dislike Singletary’s hectoring tone but I think that she inadvertently makes a pretty good point: Market prices can provide a…
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What Lending Crisis?
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Short on Storm Coverage
So long as hurricanes continue to sweep through Florida's landscape, Floridians will have to find ways to repair the damage. As the Sentinel…
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Would You Like Some Wood Pulp With That?
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Private Public Matters
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Mandatory Purchase
In a piece in Saturday's Washington Examiner, I examine the parallels between auto insurance and health insurance, and, for the most part, find that…
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The Road to Health Care Reform
When they buy automobile insurance, Americans enjoy a market that provides many choices, lots of competition, and, in most places, reasonable rates. Residents of…
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Support for Big Government Grows
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Could it happen here? Probably not.
Recent media reports indicate that some the leading suspects in the recently attempted terror attacks against the U.K. were doctors working for the…