On 5 October 2007, I had written a blog post Does urban India favour liberal economics?, where I had used survey data released by the Pew Institute, which measures attitudes of roughly 45,000 people worldwide with roughly [...]

Efforts to fix our health insurance system have found no found shortage of critical flaws in the “market”. I have yet to hear a coherent argument for the continued existence of private health insurance. Health care differs in three critical ways from traditional markets. Taken together I doubt that it is [...]

[Editor Note: The administration is exacerbating the greater depression by (1) preventing and delaying liquidation of toxic assets, (2) inflating the illusion currency supply beyond recognition, (3) attempting to keep wage rates up by bailing out structurally challenged industries, (4) attempting to keep prices up for example by destroying supply of old working cars and [...]

Instead of treating the economy for heart attack, it should be treated for over-stimulation syndrome.

The big difference between the perpetual motion “engineer” of yesteryear and the social “engineer” of today is that the former was playing with toys, things that didn’t have much effect on others. The latter is very dangerous because his or her irresponsible and ill fated experiments affect millions, even billions of people.