Latino Politics Blog reports that, Wal-Mart Named One Of The Best Companies For Latinas…yet decided to continue its boycott of the company anyways.
You can read the blog and fellow commenter’s reason for taking that stance but I post here the other side of the argument. I left this comment on the blog (a comment that […]
Archive for August, 2007
Aug31st2007
Wal-Mart Is The Poor And Minorities Friend
Published by in Economics, General, Hispanics (Minority Issues) and Wal-Mart. 12 CommentsAug31st2007
“I’ve long believed in what I call “the Jimmy Carter test.” The process consists simply in discovering Carter’s opinions on politics and foreign policy and taking the opposite position. Carter was one of our worst Chief Executives, and he surely ranks as the worst ex-president in our history. He has an uncanny ability to say […]
Aug30th2007
Probably not on net balance, but it can certainly have some positive affects. For example, Freeman Dyson, professor of physics at the Institute for Advanced Study, in Princeton writes:
The warming effect of carbon dioxide is strongest where air is cold and dry, mainly in the arctic rather than in the tropics, mainly in mountainous regions […]
Aug29th2007
“One particular consideration I think is underdiscussed is the fact that much of the labor illegal immigrants provide substitutes for women’s home labor. And I don’t just mean nannies for rich women. I mean cleaning services, and food processing, and dry cleaning, and grocery delivery, and all the other things that make it possible for […]
Aug27th2007
Shavar Jeffries On Michael Vicks Treatment
Published by in DayToDay, General and Hispanics (Minority Issues). 2 CommentsYet another great post by Shavar Jeffries at Black Professors blog:
Ultimately, I find the entire Vick episode to be a comedy of the absurd. At the end of the day, he bet on dogfights, and subsidized an enterprise that sometimes wantonly killed dogs who weren’t top fighters. As a consequence, he’s already lost […]
Aug27th2007
“Why do people think that a single-payer system would be any better than Medicare or Medicaid? The way things work now, Medicare gets the gold (more political clout in the over-65 population) and Medicaid gets the shaft (absolutely no political clout in that population)”. –Medpundit
Aug24th2007
The Reality Of Affirmation Action
Published by in General, Hispanics (Minority Issues) and affirmative action. 1 CommentGail Heriot, professor of law at the University of San Diego and a member of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, in an article titled, Affirmative Action Backfires, in the Wall Street Journal writes:
Three years ago, UCLA law professor Richard Sander published an explosive, fact-based study of the consequences of affirmative action in American law […]
Aug20th2007
“Firstly, it’s easy to vilify banks for “predatory lending” practices when they sold strange and exotic mortgages to homeowners, but I don’t think that’s fair. “Predatory lending” kind of makes sense when your interest rate is usuriously high, and the borrower has no other options, but it boggles the mind to use that phrase when […]
Aug17th2007
Quote Of The Day
Published by in (modern day) Liberalism, Economics, General, ModernPolitics and StdOfLiving. 1 Comment“Sometimes I wonder whether much of the public outcry over the gain in weight of teenagers and adults stems mainly from the revulsion that many educated people experience when seeing very fat people. Surely, though, this should hardly be the ground for interventionist policies!” –Gary Becker, Nobel Laureate in economics, writing on why a fat […]
Aug16th2007
Gary Becker, Nobel Laureate in economics, writes:
Let me respond to the important question of how can we reduce gentrification that replaces lower income housing by middle and upper income housing. I believe in allowing supply and demand in the housing market to determine land use. Unfortunately, the balance is frequently artificially tilted in favor […]
Aug15th2007
The Difference Between Statistical Discrimination And Racism
Published by in DayToDay, Discrimination, Economics and General. 9 CommentsIt always annoys me when someone confuses true racism with statistical discrimination. VivirLatino gives a perfect example of that here. More on statistical discrimination here.
Aug15th2007
The Politics Of Unions
Published by in Economics, General, Minimum Wage, Unions and Wal-Mart. 1 CommentGary Becker, Nobel Laureate in economics, writes:
Unions always favor increases in minimum wages, even when as in this case the minimum only apply to some employers. Any increase in the minimum wage would raise the demand for unionized skilled workers who would substitute for the less skilled employees displaced by the minimum. Unions have […]
Aug14th2007
Have you noticed that talk of the ‘looming federal deficit’ is conspicuously missing from the Democrat presidential nominees? The reason it is missing is because the federal deficit is quickly disappearing:
A month ago, the White House slashed its forecast for the 2007 deficit, saying it now expects to run a $205 billion deficit, down from […]
Aug13th2007
Gary Becker, Nobel Laureate in economics, in response to comments on a post arguing for the privatization of highways writes:
The USPO illustrates the worst of public monopolies. It has lagged virtually all the important mail delivery innovations in recent decades. It is grossly overmanned, and its employees are often surly and unpleasant. The need […]
Aug10th2007
Gary Becker, Nobel Laureate in economics, writes:
Incidentally, since I believe private security usually performs very well, I never was convinced by the arguments to federalize employees who search baggage at airports. Private companies would do the job better than a single (monopoly) government employer if the standards of performance were clearly set by the government […]
Aug9th2007
Gary Becker, Nobel Laureate in economics, explains why we are getting fatter:
Several factors explain why the average weight of Americans (and those in other developed countries) increased a lot more rapidly after 1980 than it had before. The effective price of fatty foods began to decline rapidly at that time, in part due to the […]
