I arrived in Monterrey, Mexico (my parents are from Guerrero, Mexico, but my uncle on my moms side ended up in Monterrey, and since he takes care of my grandma, Monterrey is also where she resides) this Saturday at 6pm. I came with my mom and my cousin. My aunt picked us up at the […]
Archive for June, 2005
Jun13th2005
Jun11th2005
“… in the meetings I attended, the President was always very engaged. When I had briefings with the President, I wasn’t worried the President was going to sit there stone-faced. I was worried about the President interrupting me before I got to the points I wanted to make. He’s very involved. He asks lots of […]
Jun10th2005
Free To Choose - By Milton Friedman
Published by in Books, Education, General and Vouchers. 1 CommentNOTE: Tomorrow I am heading out to visit some family in Mexico, I will be gone until June 26th, so blogging will be limited, to none at all, from now until than.
In the meantime, I leave you with this commentary by one of my favorite economists, and one of the greatest economists of the […]
Jun10th2005
“…there is no doubt the enemy of U.S. workers is not across our borders or across the oceans. The real enemy of U.S. workers is the stupid tax and regulatory policies coming out of Washington that are strangling America’s small and large businesses’ ability to compete in the global economy. This economic hardship must be […]
Jun9th2005
A Private Health Care Sector In Canada?
Published by in Economics, General and HealthCare. 0 CommentsCanadian News reports:
OTTAWA — The country’s top court has delivered a powerful blow to Canada’s single-tier system of public health care, striking down a Quebec law that banned private insurance for medically necessary services.
Most experts, on either side of the debate, predicted the decision will lead to a parallel private system. But the federal government […]
Jun9th2005
“The overall economic benefits of free trade are clear as a matter of historical record. Global economic growth has accelerated dramatically over the last 50 years, coinciding with the liberalization of international trade. While the world economy has expanded rapidly, the benefits have not been evenly distributed. A study conducted by the Heritage Foundation and […]
Jun8th2005
“Basic economic theory says that employers could make their employees better off by giving them cash income rather than the in-kind benefit of health care coverage. Employees could use the cash to purchase health care coverage directly from insurance companies, which would result in a more efficient system. What precludes this from happening today is […]
Jun7th2005
When Liberals Get Control Of An Economy
Published by in (modern day) Liberalism, Economics, Europe and General. 2 CommentsDavid Brooks, writing in the New York Times, explains:
Forgive me for making a blunt and obvious point, but events in Western Europe are slowly discrediting large swaths of American liberalism.
Most of the policy ideas advocated by American liberals have already been enacted in Europe: generous welfare measures, ample labor protections, highly progressive tax rates, single-payer […]
Jun7th2005
Quote Of The Day
Published by in Economics, FreeTrade, General and Hispanics (Minority Issues). 0 Comments“Given the political controversy[of CAFTA], you might assume that there is an underlying dispute among economists on the issue of free trade. There isn’t. The theory has been settled for centuries, since David Ricardo’s famous theory of comparative advantage demonstrated that trade allows each country to concentrate on doing what it does well, thus increasing […]
Jun6th2005
“We could provide for the health care needs of the poor at far less cost by using vouchers in a market setting rather than using pervasive government intervention. However, as Sowell writes, “here, as elsewhere, the poor are being used as excuses to fasten a whole system of controls on all of us. The left […]
Jun4th2005
“Maybe we haven’t laid racism to rest, but we have reached the point where what we do matters more than what is done to us. That’s great, good news”. –William Raspberry, writing about the emphasis difference between Thomas Sowell’s book “Black Rednecks and White Liberals” and Pennsylvania professor Michael Eric Dyson’s new book, “Is Bill […]
Jun3rd2005
“Rotten education is a severe handicap to upward mobility, but is it a civil rights problem? Let’s look at it. Washington, D.C. public schools, as well as many other big city schools, are little more than educational cesspools. Per student spending in Washington, D.C., is just about the highest in the nation. D.C.’s mayors have […]
Jun2nd2005
“The civil rights struggle is over, and it has been won. At one time, black Americans did not have the same constitutional protections as whites. Now, we do, because the civil rights struggle is over and won is not the same as saying that there are not major problems for a large segment of the […]
